Instead of dying in the electric chair, Pinker became electricity itself, allowing him to continue his rampage in an ...

Two days before South Carolina death row inmate Brad Sigmon was due to be put to death in the state’s 109-year-old electric chair, he won a rare reprieve from the state’s Supreme Court. Fellow ...

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 ...

Lawyers for two South Carolina inmates who face executions have asked the state’s highest court to delay scheduling their deaths until a lower court can decide whether the electric chair and firing ...

A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this month, according to ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina lawmakers are considering a bill that would make the electric chair the default execution method for death row inmates in the state. A House subcommittee advanced legislation ...