Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

Lawyers for a group of South Carolina death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the state's Supreme Court that two of the state's forms of execution — the old electric chair method and ...

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 ...

First, Alabama brought in nitrogen gas. Now, South Carolina is looking to bring back the electric chair and firing squad. With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are ...

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 ...