NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee inmate has made a last-minute request to be put to death in the electric chair, an option his lawyer described as “also unconstitutional, yet still less painful” ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which ...

COLUMBIA — South Carolina's Supreme Court heard arguments Feb. 6 over the constitutionality of the firing squad and electric chair as death penalty methods with some justices indicating discomfort ...

South Carolina wants to bring back the firing squad and the electric chair as the state argues that “painless” deaths are not mandated. Among the 33 prisoners on death row in the Palmetto State, four ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Whether South Carolina can start executing prisoners again either with a firing squad or electric chair is now in the hands of a judge after a trial over whether shooting or ...