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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

COLUMBIA — Inmates on South Carolina's death row went from one possible way to die, to three. Lethal injection, firing squad or the electric chair. It was the result of several years of litigation by ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The South Carolina Senate has agreed to let authorities use the electric chair to execute condemned prisoners if the state lacks the drugs needed for lethal injections. The ...

How does the electric chair work? Does anybody still use electric chairs?