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 ...

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 ...

The Warner Theatre will present Requiem for an Electric Chair, a powerful one-man play by award-winning Congolese playwright ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal ...

A new law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allows more methods of execution for people convicted of capital crimes.

For nearly two decades, legal challenges have blocked the death penalty in North Carolina from being carried out. Now, Republican lawmakers who want to lift the state’s de-facto moratorium on capital ...

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or nitrogen. What to know.

MORNING HEADLINES | Attorneys for condemned inmate Stephen Stanko, who is set to be executed next month, are asking for more information about two of three execution methods in the state. The ...

The state of Tennessee denied a condemned man's desire to die in the electric chair, claiming he waited too long to make his macabre selection — but an appeals court late Wednesday stayed his ...

Mississippi allows execution by firing squad, but has never used this method. Richard Jordan, Mississippi's longest-serving death row inmate, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection.

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. It's a unique situation globally. While many nations are ...