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

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina is trying to restart executions by dusting off the electric chair after going nearly 10 years without putting a condemned inmate to death. A House Committee voted 14-7 ...

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 ...

Tennessee has decided to bring back the electric chair. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday signed a bill into law allowing the state to electrocute death row inmates in the event the state is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal injection. Now, depending on where they're imprisoned, inmates have a ...