May 4 -- When Florida's Supreme Court posted photos of the bleeding, bubbling corpse of 340-pound triple-murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis on the Web, the court may have sentenced to death a ...

Long before the phrase “Ol’ Sparky” became part of pop culture, the very first execution by electric chair took place at ...

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 ...

Knoxville, Tenn. (WBIR) On Friday afternoon, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam defended his decision to sign a bill that requires the use of the electric chair to carry out executions if lethal injection ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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 who ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates for now to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the ...

NEW YORK --Despite the affectionate nicknames -- Old Smokey, Yellow Mama, Old Sparky -- there has been nothing gentle about America's most lethal line of furniture. More than 4,300 people in 26 states ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee used its electric chair for the first time since 2007, executing an inmate Thursday evening for the killings of two other men who had been shot and had their throats slit ...

Edmund Zagorski was executed by electric chair Thursday in a Nashville, Tenn., prison after challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection drugs and then choosing instead to die by ...

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