In 1946, a 17 year old teenager named Willie Francis became part of one of the most disturbing execution cases in American history. After being convicted of murdering a pharmacist in Louisiana, ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A proposal that would force inmates to die by electric chair if lethal injection drugs can’t be found is gaining steam in Virginia, in part because of a looming execution ...

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 ...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the Republican nominee for governor of Tennessee, wants to expedite executions and "bring back the ...

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Electric chairs, gas chambers or firing squad: American states that retain the death penalty are mulling a return to long-abandoned execution methods as they grapple with a shortage of lethal ...

(Columbia-AP) -- South Carolina will dust off the electric chair on Friday to put a man convicted of killing two Midlands women to death. James Neil Tucker didn't actually choose electrocution. Under ...

Discover the shocking details of a botched execution in Alabama's 'Yellow Mama' electric chair, sparking widespread outrage. Shocking documentary follows Elizabeth Holmes as she prepares to go to ...