But 12 states still have electric chairs, and there are a small legion of lawyers, ... “His head jerked back and smoke and spark-like flames came out of the top of his head.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee has executed four death row inmates in the electric chair since last year. No other state has used the device to execute prisoners since 2013. It's a process ...

William Francis Kemmler was the first person executed by an electric chair, carried out at New York's Auburn Prison. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a ...

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A South Carolina judge ruled Tuesday that death by firing squad and the electric chair violate the state’s Constitution, calling them cruel and unusual punishment in an order halting the ...

Sigmon was scheduled to die in a 109-year-old electric chair in June 2021 in what would have been South Carolina's first execution since 2011, but the state's Supreme Court gave him a last-minute ...

Column: I witnessed cop-killer Jesse Tafero die in the electric chair. Flames shot up from his head Tafero was convicted of killing Florida Trooper Phillip A. Black and his friend, Donald Robert ...

Tennessee executed death row inmate Lee Hall in the electric chair Thursday night. ... helmet and shroud over their head. The chair delivers two cycles of electric jolts — 20 seconds of 1,750 ...

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.

This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

South Carolina’s prisons director says the state's supply of its lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested two months ago and its firing squad has the ammunition and training ...