The Department of Justice's report is the latest development in the administration’s long campaign to execute as many people ...

Condemned murderer Edmund Zagorski requested to die this week by electrocution in Tennessee. Just three hours before the 63-year-old man was scheduled to die Thursday, Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The Louisiana House of Representatives advanced a bill that would add new methods for the state to execute death row inmates. The electric chair and nitrogen hypoxia gas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bidding to resume Louisiana executions after a 14-year pause, the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature gave final passage to a bill Thursday to add electrocution and the use of nitrogen gas as ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, SC – The state Senate on Tuesday rejected a proposal to include firing squads as a means of execution but gave key approval to a bill to require the use of the electric chair if lethal ...

After a 13-year hiatus, South Carolina is looking to resume three execution methods: lethal injection, firing squad, and the electric chair. The decision is pending Tuesday’s oral arguments for four ...