William Francis Kemmler was the first person executed by an electric chair, carried out at New York's Auburn Prison. He was convicted of murdering Matilda "Tillie" Ziegler, his common-law wife, a ...

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 ...

How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

Tennessee executed death row inmate Lee Hall in the electric chair Thursday night, marking the fourth time the state has used the method since 2018. Hall, 53, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. CST ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee executed death row inmate Stephen Michael West on Thursday night, marking the third time the state has used the electric chair in less than a year. He was pronounced ...

SING SING PRISON, N.Y., June 20, 1953 (UP) -- The United States had exacted full payment today from Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for the atomic age betrayal of their country.

SALEM, Ore. — A woman in an electric-powered chair is dead after a crash in Salem on Wednesday morning, according to the Salem Police Department (SPD). At around 9:45 a.m. on Wednesday first ...

Muscarello said he filed House Bill No. 6 proposing nitrogen gas and the electric chair be used for the death penalty amid an execution drug shortage ... He was pronounced dead at 8:25 p.m ...

South Carolina’s prisons director says the state's supply of its lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested two months ago and its firing squad has the ammunition and training ...

FARMER DIES PRAYING IN CHAIR; First Electric Shock Kills Slayer of Mrs. Brennan ... Three contacts were given and the physicians officially pronounced the woman dead at 6:15 o'clock. Five women, ...

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 ...