Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

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 ...

Richard Bernard Moore has been on death row for more than 2 decades. (Justice 360 via AP) By law, Moore will be asked to choose his method of execution – either the electric chair or firing squad – 2 ...

Lawyers for two South Carolina inmates who face executions have asked the state’s highest court to delay scheduling their deaths until a lower court can decide whether the electric chair and firing ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The Louisiana House of Representatives advanced a bill that would add new methods for the state to execute death row inmates. The electric chair and nitrogen hypoxia gas ...

First, Alabama brought in nitrogen gas. Now, South Carolina is looking to bring back the electric chair and firing squad. With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs ...

Lawyers for a group of South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the state's Supreme Court that two of the state's forms of execution — the old electric chair method and ...

Two Greenville men were scheduled to be executed this month, marking the state’s first use of the electric chair in 13 years. But the chair’s return was halted Wednesday when the S.C. Supreme Court ...