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 ...

Death row inmate Edmund Zagorski's path to the electric chair sprung from a national debate over lethal injection drugs that shows no sign of waning. An expert on executions predicted more death ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates: with the electric chair. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam ...

State law allows inmates to die by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. Sigmon's lawyers said he also didn't choose the chair because he said he didn't want to be cooked alive.

How many people have been executed in Mississippi? How were their deaths conducted? How many women executed? Any notable ...

Lethal injection, electric chair, firing squad or even nitrogen gas: the execution methods still used in the world today as one death row inmate in the US faces an impossible choice ...

This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

The national shortage of drugs necessary for death penalty states to carry out lethal injections has led Tennessee this week to become the first to allow a return to use of the electric chair. The ...

Tennessee is going to expand its use of the electric chair, making electrocution the state’s method of execution if lethal injection is not available. The new law, signed by Gov. Bill Haslam (R ...

The scarcity of lethal injection drugs has led the state to return to an older method. ... It upheld the firing squad in 1879, the electric chair in 1890 and lethal injection in 2008.

State law allows inmates to die by firing squad, lethal injection or the electric chair. Sigmon's lawyers said he also didn't choose the chair because he said he didn't want to be cooked alive.