Long before the phrase “Ol’ Sparky” became part of pop culture, the very first execution by electric chair took place at ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — North Carolina House Republicans are looking to change the method of execution for people on death row and end the state’s nearly two decades-long moratorium. On Tuesday, House ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will ...

It’s time to dust off Yellow Mama. She’s been in the retirement home for old electric chairs too long. The death-penalty critics are wringing their liberal hands at the thought that Ronald Bert ...

A coalition of anti-death penalty groups has united to end capital punishment state by state and just as U.S. executions are ...