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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 who worries that his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The Condemned,” a new podcast by syracuse.com that launches on June 1, tells the stories of five men from Onondaga County who were condemned to die in a machine invented in Upstate New York: the ...

NEW YORK --Despite the affectionate nicknames -- Old Smokey, Yellow Mama, Old Sparky -- there has been nothing gentle about America's most lethal line of furniture. More than 4,300 people in 26 states ...