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 ...

COLUMBIA — Inmates on South Carolina's death row went from one possible way to die, to three. Lethal injection, firing squad or the electric chair. It was the result of several years of litigation by ...

Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas as ...

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 ...

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, ...

South Carolina's prisons director said Wednesday the state is ready to carry out an execution next month that would mark its first in more than 13 years. Corrections Director Bryan Stirling said South ...

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Robert Williams died 11 years ago sitting in Nebraska’s electric chair. It’s almost a sure bet he will go down in history as the last man executed in Nebraska by electrocution. After Nebraska Attorney ...