With Tennessee Senators voting Wednesday to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known photograph of this controversial form of capital punishment. In 1925, ...

Lethal injection is dying a slow death. Thanks to a European Union embargo on the export of key drugs, and the refusal of major pharmaceutical companies to sell them, the nation’s predominant method ...

May 4 -- When Florida's Supreme Court posted photos of the bleeding, bubbling corpse of 340-pound triple-murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis on the Web, the court may have sentenced to death a ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Death row inmates in Tennessee can die one of two ways: lethal injection or the electric chair. "You're choosing two really rough options, and I guess you wanna choose the one ...

Russian forces stand accused of perpetrating a brutal campaign of violence against Ukrainians, including the use of electric chairs and castration within a makeshift torture prison. The town of Izyum ...

Discover the shocking details of a botched execution in Alabama's 'Yellow Mama' electric chair, sparking widespread outrage.

Tennessee is preparing to begin executions again after a two-year break following the outbreak of COVID-19. Five executions have been scheduled through the year with the first, Oscar Franklin Smith, ...

On August 6, 135 years will have passed since the first execution by electric chair in the United States. The method was first used in 1890 to execute William Kemmler, who was convicted of murder.

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