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 ...

WASHINGTON — Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is still deciding whether he will approve a bill passed by the General Assembly to make death row inmates die by electric chair if lethal injection drugs ...

After Tennessee failed to execute Tony Carruthers, legal experts argue a second attempt would be cruel torture.

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Executions in North Carolina could soon resume, after nearly two decades on hold, now that Iryna’s Law is officially in effect. The law allows for alternate methods of execution ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina senators have added a firing squad to the electric chair as alternatives if the state can’t execute condemned inmates via lethal injection. The Senate then approved the ...

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 ...

An execution is set to take place next month as convicted killer Andrew Lukehart is sentenced to be put to death via the ...