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

In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...

Richard Bernard Moore has been on death row for more than 2 decades. (Justice 360 via AP) By law, Moore will be asked to choose his method of execution – either the electric chair or firing squad – 2 ...

An inmate who has been on South Carolina’s death row since 2002 has been issued an execution notice, the first ordered since the state Legislature’s recent change to the law making the electric chair ...

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 ...

Lawyers for a group of death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that two of the state's execution methods — the electric chair, which is ...

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 ...