Condemned murderer Edmund Zagorski requested to die this week by electrocution in Tennessee. Just three hours before the 63-year-old man was scheduled to die Thursday, Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the ...

Instead of dying in the electric chair, Pinker became electricity itself, allowing him to continue his rampage in an immaterial form. It’s not everyday you see an execution only half-work. But, much ...

South Carolina House members voted Wednesday to approve a bill designed to restart executions in the state by adding firing squad or electrocution as options if lethal injection drugs are not ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — 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 ...