John Louis Evans III was executed in Alabama in 1983 after being convicted of killing pawnbroker Edward Nassar during a 1977 ...

John Louis Evans III was put to death in Alabama in 1983 after being convicted of killing pawnbroker Edward Nassar during a ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols has declined to chose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his ...

John Louis Evans III, aged 33, was put to death in Alabama after killing a pawnbroker, and was eventually strapped into an ...

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 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 ...

Discover the shocking details of a botched execution in Alabama's 'Yellow Mama' electric chair, sparking widespread outrage.

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 ...

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 ...

The big chair rests on a museum pedestal, the haunting centerpiece to a display on Louisiana’s abundant history of state killing. She stands more than 5 feet tall and a yard from ankle cups to back, ...

Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas as ...