Convicted murderer Brandon W. Hedrick was executed last night in Virginia's electric chair, nine years after he raped and fatally shot a 23-year-old woman in Lynchburg. Hedrick, 27, was pronounced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephen Michael West, 56: Died by electric chair on Aug. 15, 2019, for the 1986 murders of Wanda Romines, 51, and Sheila Romines, 15, in their East Tennessee home. Last words: "In the beginning ...

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.

Clagett Dies in Electric Chair for '94 Killings. ... Michael David Clagett, 39, was pronounced dead at 9:08 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center, said Larry Traylor, ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...