With Tennessee Senators voting to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known ...

Update (5:50 p.m.): Edmund Zagorski's attorney, Kelley Henry, tells the Scene that Tennessee Department of Correction officials have said it's too late for Zagorski to choose the electric chair, and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is trying to restart executions by dusting off the electric chair after going nearly 10 years without putting a condemned inmate to death. A House Committee voted 14-7 ...

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 ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death penalty. North Carolina hasn't had any executions since 2006 due to legal ...