Six men have died by court-ordered execution so far this year, and 14 other people are scheduled to be executed in eight states during the remainder of 2025.
Four executions are scheduled this year with a new lethal injection protocol and the ethical and legal debate is intensifying.
It also states police threatened Grimm with the electric chair. “Had Richmond and ... a technician and spent years printing state license plates — prison labor work that pays pennies on ...
The last electrocution took place in 2020 in Tennessee ... electric chair used by Texas was nicknamed "Old Sparky." It is now displayed at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, where the ...
Sigmon had a choice between lethal injection, the firing squad or the electric chair as his manner of execution ... out by firing squad in the western state — in 1996 and in 1977.
South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster also rejected his appeal for clemency. A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents was put to death by firing squad on Friday in ...
The electric chair first replaced hanging as the method of exaction in Tennessee ... prison officials involved when declining to provide information. Companies like Pfizer have publicly objected to ...
A South Carolina man convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend's parents was put to death by firing squad yesterday in the first such execution in the United States in 15 years, prison officials said.
Brad’s three brothers and two sisters made one last visit to prison to see ... Corrections shows the state’s death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing ...