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 ...

Georgia, which has not carried out an execution since 1998, recently abolished the use of the electric chair for capital crimes committed after May 1, 2000, substituting lethal injections.

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.

A more modern method than the electric chair, lethal injection is often perceived as more humane and perhaps less painful. And it’s the default means of execution in South Carolina, as it is in ...

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The last prisoner who went to the electric chair without being given a choice was Lynda Block, a cop-killer who was executed on May 10, 2002, in Alabama. Robert Gleason chose to be electrocuted in ...

In two other cases, Florida’s electric chair, nicknamed “Old Sparky,” caused flames to erupt from inmates’ heads. The Supreme Court refused to intervene. But at the same time, lethal ...

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 ...

Nebraska's electric chair was made in 1919, and we're still using that same chair. In 1919, the world was very different: ... The Nebraska Supreme Court's elimination of the electric chair was almost ...

The Georgia Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state can no longer use the electric chair to execute condemned criminals, saying “its specter of excruciating pain and its certainty of cooked ...

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 ...