As stocks of drugs for lethal injection have been exhausted in several states, authorities are looking for alternative methods to carry out the capital punishment sentences on its death row inmates… and now Nebraska and Nevada are turning to untried techniques. Texas used a three-drug lethal injection cocktail for nearly three decades. Mark White Even so, Texas remains the most prolific user of lethal injection, as well as … ; Witnesses arrive - There is no contact allowed between witnesses and the condemned prisoner. In the 1990s, 83 percent of the nation's 478 executions were performed by lethal injection. -- Former Gov. Last meal is provided - Prisons try to provide whatever meal is requested by the condemned prisoner. A Texas accountant smiled as he was executed by lethal injection on Thursday, after he was convicted of killing his two young daughters while their mother was forced to listen on speakerphone. As governor, I made sure they received the ultimate punishment - death - and Texas is a safer place for it." ; Warden and chaplain visit - The warden and the state-appointed chaplain visit with the inmate and stay until the end of the execution. Attack on Texas' lethal injections is bogus by State Sen. Kyle Janek (Republican, Houston), an anesthesiologist "These hardened criminals never again will murder, rape or deal drugs. The New Year may bring a new era in state executions in the US – and fresh controversy to the debate over the death penalty. Larry Swearingen, 48, received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the December 1998 killing of 19-year-old Melissa Trotter. In 2003, all 65 executions carried out across the United States were performed by lethal injection.