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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. (AP) — South Carolina’s prisons director said Wednesday that state’s supply of a lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested a month ago and its firing squad has the ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...

A South Carolina death row inmate is being required to choose between a firing squad, lethal injection and the electric chair for his Nov. 1 execution. Richard Moore, 59, was convicted of the murder ...

COLUMBIA, SC – The state Senate on Tuesday rejected a proposal to include firing squads as a means of execution but gave key approval to a bill to require the use of the electric chair if lethal ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The inmate’s request ...

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 ...