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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. – 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 the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CN) – Calling it “an accident waiting to happen,” the man who built Tennessee’s electric chair told Courthouse News that modifications made to the machine may not do an effective job ...

A federal judge denied two South Carolina death row inmates’ request for an injunction, which would delay their upcoming executions. In his order issued Friday, Judge Robert Bryan Harwell said the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." In 1989, The 42-year-old "lady killer" was sentenced to capital punishment—a.k.a. the death ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate passed a bill that would allow death row inmates to choose either the electric chair or a firing squad as their method of execution. The measure passed a ...

In 2025, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed death warrants for 19 people, nearly 4 times as many as any other state. List of executions ...

Nine days before South Carolina is scheduled to carry out its first execution in nearly a decade, lawyers for two death row inmates argued before a federal judge that their upcoming “forced ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. — A South Carolina judge has found that the firing squad and electric chair are prohibited by the state's constitution, a decision sure to be swiftly appealed as the state struggles ...