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Virginia signed into law the Fantasy Contests Act, a bill outlining how daily fantasy sports sites can operate legally in the state.

The state of Virginia is having a shortage of drugs used in execution via lethal injection. This is the mere reason lawmakers are now pushing the revival of the electric chair as an option for executing convicted inmates.

Republican-controlled Senate may approve the legislation into law, bringing back the electric chair as Virginia's default method of execution, due to the difficulty of obtaining the drugs used in lethal injections.