A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death ...

Recently, there has been a series of malfunctions that demonstrate the cruelty of using the electric chair. This July during the execution of Allen Lee Davis, his blood began to seep through his shirt ...

THE first two men Ron McAndrew executed died according to the script. But number three went so horribly wrong he couldn't bring himself to do it again. Ron, now 88, never dreamed of being a ...

An Alabama man who dropped his appeals and said he deserved to die for the rape and murder of a woman in 2010 was put to ...

He keeps returning in his comments to his feelings from that electric-chair execution he witnessed 21 years before. Perhaps, the PTSD that this writer suffered has clouded his judgment and his ...

on whether the state can use the electric chair, firing squad or a new lethal injection protocol to carry out its first executions in nearly 13 years. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via ...