May 4 -- When Florida's Supreme Court posted photos of the bleeding, bubbling corpse of 340-pound triple-murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis on the Web, the court may have sentenced to death a ...

Knoxville, Tenn. (WBIR) On Friday afternoon, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam defended his decision to sign a bill that requires the use of the electric chair to carry out executions if lethal injection ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled two execution methods, the firing squad and electric chair, do not violate the state’s constitution. Two years after Gov. Henry McMaster signed legislation making ...

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 State, four ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which ...

Author of the new book, Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death, Mark Essig joins Guest Host Patt Morrison to discuss the race to define which electric current would take hold in ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina's Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 6 over the constitutionality of the firing squad and electric chair as death penalty methods with some justices indicating discomfort ...

COLUMBIA, S.C.COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina judge ruled Tuesday that the state’s newly created execution firing squad, as well as its use of the electric chair, are unconstitutional, siding with ...

A nationwide shortage of lethal injection drugs has spurred some state lawmakers to push for the electric chair's return, NBC News reported. Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam became the first to do so ...

South Carolina's prisons director said Wednesday the state is ready to carry out an execution next month that would mark its first in more than 13 years. Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said South ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — A South Carolina judge has found that the firing squad and electric chair are prohibited by the state's constitution, a decision sure to be swiftly appealed as the state struggles ...