A death row inmate who is terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" has been granted the ...

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 ...

James Osgood, convicted in 2014 for a gruesome rape and murder, was executed by lethal injection in Alabama. He sought ...

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 ...

FILE - This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair ...

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 ...

The state's "ancient electric chair" would "cook him alive," and South Carolina's shield law means he would not know what lethal cocktail would be injected into his veins. From our morning news ...