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 ...
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, ...
NASHVILLE — Death row inmate Edmund Zagorski died 7:26 p.m. CDT Thursday after Tennessee prison officials electrocuted him with the electric chair. He was 63. He is the 134th person put to death by ...