In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...

Instead of dying in the electric chair, Pinker became electricity itself, allowing him to continue his rampage in an ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — If Tennessee electrocutes Edmund Zagorski on Thursday, it will be in an electric chair built by a self-taught execution expert who is no longer welcome in the prison system and ...

Update (5:50 p.m.): Edmund Zagorski's attorney, Kelley Henry, tells the Scene that Tennessee Department of Correction officials have said it's too late for Zagorski to choose the electric chair, and ...

Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

Lawyers for a group of death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that two of the state's execution methods — the electric chair, which is ...

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death penalty. North Carolina hasn't had any executions since 2006 due to legal ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are ...

Lawyers for a group of South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the state's Supreme Court that two of the state's forms of execution — the old electric chair method and ...