Some 13 years on from that landmark case, a Louisiana teenager accused of murder made headlines when he survived a ...

South Carolina resumed executions with the firing squad killing of Brad Sigmon last month. Mikal Madhi’s execution date is ...

Exclusive: Rock Hill’s James “Jimmy” Robertson has spent 26 years on South Carolina’s death row after he was convicted in 1999 of killing his parents.

An inmate on death row has become the second man to be executed by firing squad in 15 years, after he was found guilty of ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to be executed by a firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair, according to the ... Mahdi was convicted of a multi-state crime spree in July 2004 which ...

For the first time in its history, the U. S. Supreme Court has decided to review the use of the electric chair to carry out death sentences. Since its first use in 1890, there have been several ...

Mahdi was in the middle of a multi-state crime spree during which he also ... choose their method of execution between the electric chair, lethal injection and firing squad. If they do not make ...

Inmates convicted of capital crimes may be sentenced to death ... The Florida Legislature passed a law replacing that method with an electric chair, which was built by prison inmates.

First, two wardens. Next, the lethal injection gurney and ancient electric chair. Finally, its newest method of execution: a slanted chair in the far corner, facing a short black curtain in the ...