South Carolina’s highest court will hear arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which has been unable to ...

March 21 -- When Florida officials executed triple murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis in July 1999, they feared the hefty man's 340-pound-body might crush the decades-old model. So Florida built a new ...

May 4 -- When Florida's Supreme Court posted photos of the bleeding, bubbling corpse of 340-pound triple-murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis on the Web, the court may have sentenced to death a ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WAVY) — On Friday, Governor Ralph Northam announced that several items used to execute people in Virginia were being transferred to the Virginia Museum of History and Culture in ...

South Carolina's electric chair could be used for the first time since 2008 if the scheduled execution of Brad Sigmon takes place on June 18. Its second use could follow one week later on June 25 if ...

Convicted murderer Brandon W. Hedrick was executed last night in Virginia's electric chair, nine years after he raped and fatally shot a 23-year-old woman in Lynchburg. Hedrick, 27, was pronounced ...