The use of the electric chair in other states has produced similar results. The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits the use of cruel and unusual punishment. The electric ...

With Tennessee Senators voting to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known photograph of this controversial form of capital punishment.

Inmates are now faced with dying via the state's 109-year-old electric chair or by firing squad, options advocates are calling inhumane. By Mary Ellen Cagnassola On 5/17/21 at 10:41 AM EDT.

Currently, the electric chair serves as South Carolina’s secondary option if lethal injection doesn’t work. Lawmakers added the firing squad to the list of options in 2021.

A death row inmate who is terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" has been granted the opportunity to choose the manner of his execution. Brad Sigmon, 67, killed ...

An empty electric chair is shown in the Death House at “This is the culmination of 10 years of work and study,” Southwick crowed after the device ended Kemmler’s life.

By that point, the electric chair hadn’t been called on for almost 25 years. The last person to die in it was Robert Carter, convicted of killing a police officer and executed at the jail in 1957.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina's highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which ...