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.

Then the firing squads and hangings of the Wild West days moved to the electric chair, which eventually gave way to the ... since 2010 and only the fourth and fifth using that method in modern U.S.

South Carolina South Carolina seeks to restart executions with electric chair, firing squad; says painless death not required South Carolina claims 'instantaneous or painless' deaths are not mandated ...

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.

Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a virtual buffet of ways to die: firing squad, nitrogen gas, the electric chair and still, lethal injection.On top of that, Florida passed ...

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

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.