Wednesday, May 16, here in the middle of America's rich green heartland, almost within sight of the world he has lost - the world of open highways, shopping malls, all you can eat and boundless ...

The woman who watched 300 executions Life and Death Row: How the lethal injection kills Prior to Zagorski's execution, the electric chair had not been used since 2013. Miller was pronounced dead ...

Back and forth on an autumn day in 1718, the bodies of at least 20 pirates swung from nooses in Charleston. The crime of the men, among the first recorded to have been executed in South Carolina ...

its electric chair has been tested and the firing squad has the ammunition and training needed to put condemned inmate Freddie Owens to death in September. Stirling was ordered by the state ...

A top court in South Carolina blocked two planned executions by electric chair this month, saying the two men could not be put to death until they had the choice of a firing squad. The ruling was ...

Tennessee has executed its third inmate in the electric chair since November, killing a man who maintained that he did not stab a mother and her 15-year-old daughter to death in 1986. State ...

[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty ... and the building of the nation’s first electric chair. It held its first victim, William Kemmler, in 1890 ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Walter Balkum, 43, is charged with manslaughter and criminal contempt in the death of his girlfriend ... Bruner’s son replied, “Electric chair.” ...

A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no ...