On Thursday, a lone visitor approached Gruesome Gertie in silence, as most do, said Kathryn Loechelt, director of the tidy museum outside the gates of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Electrocution proposed as death penalty option in La. where electric chair is known as ‘Gruesome Gertie’ Like other reliably red states that have seen executions stall, Louisiana lawmakers are ...

Under the new law, nitrogen hypoxia will be added to the available execution methods, along with the reintroduction of the electric chair, which death row inmates dubbed "Gruesome Gertie." ...

It's been 15 years since Louisiana executed a death row prisoner. Here's when the death penalty started in Louisiana and what has changed since, from nitrogen gas to "Gruesome Gertie." ...

Louisiana’s infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991 when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole ...

Willie was 16 at the time of the murder. The prison guard in charge of readying the state’s electric chair, which was known as Gruesome Gertie, did so while intoxicated.

A little after midnight in the early hours of April 5, 1984, Elmo Patrick Sonnier was pronounced dead from the electric currents of "Gruesome Gertie", the sardonic nickname given to Louisiana's ...

BATON ROGUE, La. (AP) — Louisiana's infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal ...

For four decades until 1991, Louisiana had used the electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie.” ...

Legal challenges, like those that helped usher Gruesome Gertie into retirement 33 years ago after a half-century of on-and-off-again killing, figure to keep things historical at least for now.