On Thursday, David Earl Miller became the second person in the last five weeks to choose death in Tennessee’s electric chair over lethal injection. Miller was executed for the 1981 murder of 23 ...

Then the firing squads and hangings of the Wild West days moved to the electric chair, which eventually gave way to the ... since 2010 and only the fourth and fifth using that method in modern U.S.

South Carolina South Carolina seeks to restart executions with electric chair, firing squad; says painless death not required South Carolina claims 'instantaneous or painless' deaths are not mandated ...

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.

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 ...

Currently, the electric chair serves as South Carolina’s secondary option if lethal injection doesn’t work. Lawmakers added the firing squad to the list of options in 2021.