Harold Wayne Nichols, 62, was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a ...

Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution.

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 ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee has executed four death row inmates in the electric chair since last year. No other state has used the device to execute prisoners since 2013. It's a process that ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina is close to legalizing firing squads as an alternative to the electric chair and lethal injection for executions. The bill has already made it through the state ...

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster quietly signed into law Friday a measure that requires condemned inmates there to choose between a firing squad or the electric chair if the executioner can’t rustle ...

Tennessee has not performed autopsies on the four death row inmates who chose to die in the electric chair since the state resumed executions in 2018. The state honored requests that autopsies not be ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...

FORECAST CHRIS. THANK YOU. WELL RIGHT NOWHE T UPSTATE PRISONER WHO IS SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED LATER THIS MONTH IN SOUTH CAROLINA IS TO DIE BY RINGFI SQUAD COURT DOCUMTSEN FILE TODAY LISTED RICHARD ...