South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled two execution methods, the firing squad and electric chair, do not violate the state’s constitution. Two years after Gov. Henry McMaster signed legislation making ...

NASHVILLE — Death row inmate Edmund Zagorski died 7:26 p.m. CDT Thursday after Tennessee prison officials electrocuted him with the electric chair. He was 63. He is the 134th person put to death by ...

Many people commonly associate the United States death penalty with electrocution by electric chair. But the practice is rarely used anymore in favor of lethal injection, which is seen to be a much ...

Reporting from NASHVILLE — A Tennessee inmate’s final words were “let’s rock” moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007, put to death Thursday for ...

The ghosts of Tennessee's electric chair far outnumber the 126 men who have died while sitting in it. At least that's how the story goes. Legend has it that the chair was built using wood from the old ...

A South Carolina judge this week ruled that authorizing the execution of inmates by firing squad or the electric chair is unconstitutional. In a 39-page opinion issued Tuesday, 5th Judicial Circuit ...

Two Greenville men were scheduled to be executed this month, marking the state’s first use of the electric chair in 13 years. But the chair’s return was halted Wednesday when the S.C. Supreme Court ...

Vermont Historical Society registrar Mary Rogstad stands with the state’s electric chair in the basement of the Vermont Historical Society in Barre. The chair was built in 1912 and used in its fifth ...

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 ...