A push from officials to schedule executions amid uncertainty over whether lethal injection drugs are available raises the prospect of the state using the electric chair in 2018 to put someone to ...

The state has allowed for electric chair executions for years, but now it could allow it for more inmates.

Designed to be more humane than hanging, the first use of the electric chair, at Auburn Prison on Aug. 6, 1890, was described by the Syracuse Standard as "scientific butchery." ...

The bill originally focused on making the electric chair the default method of execution in response to a nationwide shortage of the drugs needed for a lethal injection.

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Death row inmate Edmund Zagorski's path to the electric chair sprung from a national debate over lethal injection drugs that shows no sign of waning. An expert on executions predicted more death ...

Gruesome Gertie can remain unplugged. State Rep. Joseph Lopinto, R-Metairie, abruptly dropped his proposal Tuesday to bring back the electric chair in Louisiana. He waited until nearly the end of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. --A Tennessee inmate's final words were "let's rock" moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007. Edmund Zagorski, 63, was put ...

People are using "electric chair" on Twitter as a particularly colorful way of telling someone that they deserve the death penalty.

South Carolina's 100-year-old electric chair could be used this week for the first time since 2008. Here's what we know about the chair.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates for now to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the state can ...

South Carolina wants to bring back the firing squad and the electric chair as the state argues that “painless” deaths are not mandated. Among the 33 prisoners on death row in the Palmetto ...