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 ...

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. — Tennessee used its electric chair for the first time since 2007, executing an inmate Thursday evening for the killings of two other men who had been shot and had their throats ...

The barbarity of electrocution may be part of its appeal, at least to some. When Alabama was debating legislation to bring back the electric chair in 2015, bill sponsor Lynn Greer said, “The ...

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 ...

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 ...

SING SING PRISON, N.Y., June 20, 1953 (UP) -- The United States had exacted full payment today from Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for the atomic age betrayal of their country.

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 ...

Designed to be more humane than hanging, the first use of the electric chair, at Auburn Prison on Aug. 6, 1890, was described by the Syracuse Standard as "scientific butchery." ...

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 ...

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 ...