Old Sparky, the electric chair Texas used to executive inmates from 1924 to 1964. Credit: Courtesy Jim Willett, Texas Prison Museum director Texplainer ...

With executions in the news recently, NewsNet5 dug up some old video and coverage of Ohio's electric chair, which was last used in 1963. That seat of fire was called "Old Sparky" or "Old ...

An electric chair called Old Sparky, a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood and a cage that mental patients used to be locked up in will go on display in a museum. The exhibit at Ohio's Historical Centre ...

"Old Sparky" the electric chair that was once used at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. James Tannehill After an initial attempt in 2014 to regain custody of Old Sparky, the city let the issue lapse.

LINCOLN — Residents of a small southwest Nebraska town have a question for state officials: You’re not doing anything with that old electric chair, are you?

Lawmakers in Tennessee are fixing to fire up Old Sparky again. That’s right, politicians in the Volunteer State are talking about bringing back the electric chair to speed up the execution of ...

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 ...

I flinched — it was very much like the sound of the electric chair being fired up. A couple of nights later, I dreamed I was on death row, but I received an 11th-hour commutation.

STARKE, Fla. — The muggy Tuesday before Ted Bundy was supposed to die, belted into the 62-year-old, red-oak electric chair known as “Old Sparky,” the marquee outside Sonny’s Bar-B-Q on U.S ...

The return of 'Old Sparky' Tennessee is one of several states to nickname its electric chair "Old Sparky." The chair was built out of the gallows used by the state before it abolished hangings in ...

Knoxville, Tenn. (WBIR) On Friday afternoon, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam defended his decision to sign a bill that requires the use of the electric chair to carry out executions if lethal ...

The last prisoner who went to the electric chair without being given a choice was Lynda Block, a cop-killer who was executed on May 10, 2002, in Alabama. Robert Gleason chose to be electrocuted in ...