BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The Louisiana House of Representatives advanced a bill that would add new methods for the state to execute death row inmates. The electric chair and nitrogen hypoxia gas ...

Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state's old electric chair and new firing squad are ...

With Tennessee Senators voting to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known ...

First, Alabama brought in nitrogen gas. Now, South Carolina is looking to bring back the electric chair and firing squad. With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs ...

In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The inmate’s request ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — If Tennessee electrocutes Edmund Zagorski on Thursday, it will be in an electric chair built by a self-taught execution expert who is no longer welcome in the prison system and ...

The state of Tennessee denied a condemned man's desire to die in the electric chair, claiming he waited too long to make his macabre selection — but an appeals court late Wednesday stayed his ...