Condemned murderer Edmund Zagorski requested to die this week by electrocution in Tennessee. Just three hours before the 63-year-old man was scheduled to die Thursday, Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the ...

Richard Bernard Moore has been on death row for more than 2 decades. (Justice 360 via AP) By law, Moore will be asked to choose his method of execution – either the electric chair or firing squad – 2 ...

First, Alabama brought in nitrogen gas. Now, South Carolina is looking to bring back the electric chair and firing squad. With supply issues leaving states grappling to get their hands on lethal drugs ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina has scheduled its first execution after corrections officials finished updating the death chamber to prepare for executions by firing squad. The clerk of the State ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Until the past 18 months, death row inmates in the United States were executed with mostly one method in modern history: lethal ...

Lawyers for a group of death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that two of the state's execution methods — the electric chair, which is ...

Lawyers for two South Carolina inmates who face executions have asked the state’s highest court to delay scheduling their deaths until a lower court can decide whether the electric chair and firing ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this ...