Recently, there has been a series of malfunctions that demonstrate the cruelty of using the electric chair. This July during the execution of Allen Lee Davis, his blood began to seep through his shirt ...

Measuring just over six feet wide, Big Electric Chair (1967–68) will come to the block at Christie’s, bearing an estimate of $30 million. “The more you look at the same exact thing ...

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, was executed for the 2004 murder of 56-year-old James Myers A man facing the death penalty for committing two murders was executed by firing squad on Friday, the second such ...

The choice to die by firing squad – rather than lethal injection or the electric chair – was Mahdi’s own, his attorney said last month: “Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices ...

Living a low-waste lifestyle is no small feat in the age of online shopping. But as the climate crisis increasingly demands that we make changes to our buying habits, many are searching for ...

Mahdi will sit restrained in a metal chair, a hood over his head, in the corner of a room shared by the state's electric chair, "which can't be moved," according to the South Carolina Department ...

Sigmon, sentenced to death for the 2001 beating deaths of his ex-girlfriend's parents, chose the firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair. His attorney cited "prolonged and ...

Mikal chose the firing squad instead of being burned and mutilated in the electric chair, or suffering a lingering death on the lethal injection gurney. "When we think of Mikal choosing his method ...

A day earlier, after hearing of plans for the protest, Taylor had posted a photo on X of an electric chair and wrote: “We have prepared a place for the Tesla Terrorists, Intersection Imbeciles, and ...

He was strapped to a metal chair in a corner of the room, sitting 15 feet from a wall with a rectangular opening. Behind that wall was the three-person firing squad that faced Mr. Mahdi through ...