Stephen “Bolly” Ziolkowski was executed in the electric chair at Sing-Sing prison 85 years ago last week. Eighty-five years this week, Ziolkowski’s June 4, 1930: East Side gangster gets the ...

As lawmakers in South Carolina contemplate using the electric chair for executions, one doctor has shared chilling details of what happens to the body WARNING: ARTICLE CONTAINS CONTENT SOME MAY ...

The barbarity of electrocution may be part of its appeal, at least to some. When Alabama was debating legislation to bring back the electric chair in 2015, bill sponsor Lynn Greer said, “The ...

But 12 states still have electric chairs, ... “The body turns bright red as its temperature rises and the prisoner’s flesh swells and his skin stretches to the point of breaking.

Pennsylvania’s electric chair and all auxiliary equipment was ... engineer brought from Philadelphia turned a rheostat that sent 2,000 volts of electricity surging into Talap’s body for 17 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. --A Tennessee inmate's final words were "let's rock" moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007. Edmund Zagorski, 63, was put ...

On Thursday, David Earl Miller became the second person in the last five weeks to choose death in Tennessee’s electric chair over lethal injection. Miller was executed for the 1981 murder of 23 ...

Zagorksi was the first man executed in the electric chair in Tennessee since 2007. He had been convicted in April 1983 of murdering two men — robbing them and slitting their throats during a ...

It was Perry’s description of Gudinas’ impending death that prompted the 21-year-old murderer to tremble and cry. “Thomas Lee Gudinas . . . you shall be put to death in the electric chair by ...

The manufacturer of Vermont’s electric chair is unknown, but the news wire UPI reported in 1975 — when the chair was in the process of being transferred from Windsor to the Vermont Historical ...