Virginia is second to Texas in executions overall and is one of only eight states still operating an electric chair. The state has executed 110 inmates since the death penalty was reinstated ...

Instead of using the electric chair in Virginia, the governor wants pharmacies to provide what is needed for the commonwealth to carry out death sentences. Accessibility statement Skip to main ...

The last Virginia inmate to choose the electric chair was just three years ago: 42-year-old Robert Gleason Jr. was executed in 2013 after strangling two of his fellow prisoners.

Virginia lawmakers, facing a shortage of lethal drugs used to administer the death penalty, have advanced a proposal aimed at making the electric chair its default method for executions.

The Virginia Senate approved a bill Monday that would require use of the electric chair to execute condemned inmates if lethal injection drugs are not available. The state House previously ...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, left, looks over the electric chair in the death chamber at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., with Operations Director George Hinkle, center, and ...

Use of the electric chair remains rare in Virginia. Since inmates were given the option in 1995, only six of the 85 inmates executed since then have chosen electrocution over lethal injection.

FILE - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, left, looks over the electric chair in the death chamber at Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., with Operations Director George Hinkle, center, and ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia's Republican-dominated House of Delegates has approved a bill that would allow prison officials to execute inmates in the electric chair if lethal injection drugs are ...

Virginia lawmakers passed a bill Monday that would make the electric chair the state's method of execution if lethal injection drugs are unavailable. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal ...

The last Virginia inmate to choose the electric chair was 42-year-old Robert Gleason Jr., who was executed in 2013 after strangling two of his fellow prisoners. In 2014, ...

Before Earl Clanton was put to death on Virginia's electric chair, the documents indicate his sisters, his mother, attorneys and a reporter from Spain came to visit. In between meetings, Clanton ...