The use of the electric chair in other states has produced similar results. The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits the use of cruel and unusual punishment. The electric ...

Former CIA Detainees Describe Previously Unknown Torture Tactic: A Makeshift Electric Chair . In independent interviews with Human Rights Watch, two former detainees described a metal device that ...

With Tennessee Senators voting to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known photograph of this controversial form of capital punishment.

Inmates are now faced with dying via the state's 109-year-old electric chair or by firing squad, options advocates are calling inhumane. By Mary Ellen Cagnassola On 5/17/21 at 10:41 AM EDT.

A death row inmate who is terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" has been granted the opportunity to choose the manner of his execution. Brad Sigmon, 67, killed ...

An empty electric chair is shown in the Death House at “This is the culmination of 10 years of work and study,” Southwick crowed after the device ended Kemmler’s life.

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina's highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which ...