May 4 -- When Florida's Supreme Court posted photos of the bleeding, bubbling corpse of 340-pound triple-murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis on the Web, the court may have sentenced to death a ...

South Carolina's electric chair could be used for the first time since 2008 if the scheduled execution of Brad Sigmon takes place on June 18. Its second use could follow one week later on June 25 if ...

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 ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection ...

SOUTH CAROLINA — South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad. The clerk of the State ...

A South Carolina judge ruled Tuesday that death by firing squad and the electric chair violate the state’s Constitution, calling them cruel and unusual punishment in an order halting the executions of ...

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Yesterday, the Nebraska Supreme Court found 6-1 the use of the electric chair unconstitutional under the state's constitution. The Omaha World-Herald noted: There was court testimony acknowledging a ...

South Carolina Circuit Court Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled Tuesday that the state’s planned use of a firing squad and an electric chair for executions was unconstitutional. This ruling grants relief to ...