For the first time in its history, the U. S. Supreme Court has decided to review the use of the electric chair to carry out death sentences. Since its first use in 1890, there have been several ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — On Friday, Governor Ralph Northam announced that several items used to execute people in Virginia were being transferred to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in ...

One February night in 1927, somebody smashed Daisy Welling over the head with a brick as she walked across the grounds of the Capitol, on her way home from her job as a telephone operator at the ...

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 South Carolina Supreme Court returned Tuesday to hear a now almost two-year-long debate over whether firing squad and electric chair are prohibited as execution methods by the state’s constitution ...

Yesterday, the Nebraska Supreme Court found 6-1 the use of the electric chair unconstitutional under the state's constitution. The Omaha World-Herald noted: There was court testimony acknowledging a ...

The judge sided with death row inmates in declaring the punishments cruel and unusual. By Daniel Victor A judge in South Carolina ruled on Tuesday that the state’s planned use of a firing squad and an ...

A South Carolina judge has found that the firing squad and electric chair are prohibited by the state's constitution. In an order filed Tuesday evening, Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled that the South ...

South Carolina wants to bring back the firing squad and the electric chair as the state argues that “painless” deaths are not mandated. Among the 33 prisoners on death row in the Palmetto State, four ...