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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...

Read full article: New businesses breathe life into downtown Roanoke amid storefront closures HOUSTON – Louisiana is set this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's prisons director said Wednesday the state's supply of a lethal injection drug is pure, its electric chair was tested a month ago and its firing squad has the ...

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina's prisons director said Wednesday the state is ready to carry out an execution next month that would mark its first in more than 13 years. Corrections Director Bryan ...