CHARLES LINDBERGH’S BABY IS KIDNAPPED IN 1932. Not a single word – not even a moment of the gray lips – as he was gently led to the chair indicated that he might alter his protestation of ...

Amid scrutiny over a botched Oklahoma execution last month and a nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs, a back-up method for carrying out death sentences has gotten the green light in ...

Richard Nixon, accused of murdering an 8-month-old girl, has told his attorney all along that he wants to die in Florida’s electric chair. Nixon may get his wish. A Broward Circuit jury on Tu… ...

A man convicted of the murders of a mother and her 15-year-old daughter has been executed in Tennessee marking the third time the state has used the electric chair in less than a year.. For his ...

Then, during the 20th century, states tended to shift toward the gas chamber or electric chair. Injections are new; Oklahoma was the first to make it the default means of execution.

“The Green Mile,” a 1999 fantasy film, featured an electric chair in Louisiana. As bizarre as anything found in fiction, one real-life Virginia execution was delayed by a lightning strike.