In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster has signed into law a bill that forces death row inmates for now to choose between the electric chair or a newly formed firing squad in hopes the ...
Harold Wayne Nichols, adeath row inmate from Chattanooga, declined on Monday to choose between the electric chair and lethal ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Death row inmates in Tennessee can die one of two ways: lethal injection or the electric chair. "You're choosing two really rough options, and I guess you wanna choose the one ...