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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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. – Virginia could use the electric chair on death-row inmates when lethal-injection drugs are not available under a bill that cleared the legislature Friday and headed to the desk ...

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.

JARRATT, Va. (AP) — A former Army counterintelligence worker was executed by electric chair Tuesday for killing a Virginia couple, becoming the first U.S. inmate to die by electrocution in ...

Virginia Politics Local news D.C. politics Md. politics Va. electric chair bill sent back to committee, placing doubt on passage this year February 6, 2014 More than 11 years ago ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...