An inspector general report found there were no limits on how long federal inmates could be kept in restraint chairs or ...

Sheriff Christina Corpus, who told the county supervisors she didn’t know about her department’s request to buy 10 massage ...

Emails show Sheriff Christina Corpus was aware of the potential purchase of 10 massage chairs for officer wellness, however, ...

Historical data from the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) provides a glimpse of how Mississippi carried out the death penalty. Mississippi has the highest ...

Mississippi is set to carry out its 20th execution by lethal injection as Richard Jordan, who's sat on death row for 48 years ...

Then the firing squads and hangings of the Wild West days moved to the electric chair, which eventually gave way to the ... strapping a mask on the face of inmate Kenneth Eugene Smith and depriving ...

The execution team douses the inmate in water and places a sponge, helmet and shroud over their head. The chair delivers two cycles of electric jolts — 20 seconds of 1,750 volts, a 15-second gap ...

Sigmon was scheduled to die in a 109-year-old electric chair in June 2021 in what would have been South Carolina's first execution since 2011, but the state's Supreme Court gave him a last-minute ...

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 ...

South Carolina Death-Row Inmate Chooses Firing Squad Over Electric Chair Prisoner, whose execution is scheduled for April 29, says neither option is constitutional By Jennifer Calfas Share ...

South Carolina is one of eight states that still use the electric chair and one of four to allow a firing squad, according to the Washington-based nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center. There ...