A South Carolina death row inmate is being required to choose between a firing squad, lethal injection and the electric chair for his Nov. 1 execution. Richard Moore, 59, was convicted of the murder ...

South Carolina wants to bring back the firing squad and the electric chair as the state argues that “painless” deaths are not mandated. Among the 33 prisoners on death row in the Palmetto State, four ...

South Carolina senators voted Tuesday to bring back the firing squad as a method of execution. A bipartisan group of lawmakers voted in favor of the measure, which was proposed as an amendment to an ...

Lawyers for a group of death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that two of the state's execution methods — the electric chair, which is ...

Tennessee is preparing to begin executions again after a two-year break following the outbreak of COVID-19. Five executions have been scheduled through the year with the first, Oscar Franklin Smith, ...

It was once one of the most popular means of execution. The electric chair was first used in 1890 in New York, coming to Tennessee in the early 1900s. The original Tennessee electric chair was used ...

A double-murderer was put to death in the electric chair on Thursday night, as the state of Tennessee made good on the killer’s grim request to perish by electrocution and not lethal injection. Edmund ...