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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1989, The 42-year-old "lady killer" was sentenced to capital punishment—a.k.a. the death penalty—in Florida after confessing to ...

Knoxville, Tenn. (WBIR) On Friday afternoon, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam defended his decision to sign a bill that requires the use of the electric chair to carry out executions if lethal injection ...

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 ...

A double-murderer was put to death in the electric chair on Thursday night, as the state of Tennessee made good on the killer’s grim request to perish by electrocution and not lethal injection. Edmund ...

Attorneys for Edmund Zagorski revealed Monday night that the death row inmate would like to be executed by method of electric chair instead of lethal injection. This comes after the Supreme Court of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — 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 who ...

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 ...

Tennessee’s chair, which hasn’t been used since 2007, is just one of many execution devices that Leuchter worked on between 1979 and 1990, according to an article by Fordham University professor ...

South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled two execution methods, the firing squad and electric chair, do not violate the state’s constitution. Two years after Gov. Henry McMaster signed legislation making ...