The way the federal government can kill death row prisoners will soon be expanded to ghoulish methods that include hanging, the electric chair, gas chamber and the firing squad. Set to take effect on ...

Injection or electrocution? For about 26 years, South Carolina has asked its death row inmates to pick how they die. Most choose lethal injection. A more modern method than the electric chair, lethal ...

August 6, 1890 was thought to be a momentous day in human history. On that day, at Auburn State Prison, William Kemmler, a Buffalo produce peddler who had been convicted of murdering his common-law ...

Lawyers for a group of death row inmates who have run out of appeals are expected to argue to the South Carolina Supreme Court that two of the state's execution methods — the electric chair, which is ...

As the execution date for a Mississippi death row inmate draws near, it's raised questions about which states still have the death penalty and what execution methods are still in use in the United ...

A South Carolina judge this week ruled that authorizing the execution of inmates by firing squad or the electric chair is unconstitutional. In a 39-page opinion issued Tuesday, 5th Judicial Circuit ...

Back and forth on an autumn day in 1718, the bodies of at least 20 pirates swung from nooses in Charleston. The crime of the men, among the first recorded to have been executed in South Carolina, had ...

South Carolina is set to execute a death-row inmate by firing squad or electrocution later this month. Barring a successful appeal to the Supreme Court, the state will put Richard Bernard Moore to ...

08:00, Wed, Nov 26, 2025 Updated: 11:35, Wed, Nov 26, 2025 A death row inmate endured a horrific botched execution after a strap on the electric chair broke, engulfing him in flames and filling the ...

It was not the typical invitation journalist Boyden Sparks found in his mailbox one morning in the spring of 1924. The correspondent from William Randolph Heart’s “International and Cosmopolitan” ...

Ted Bundy was one of the most notorious serial killers in history. He murdered more than 30 women between the years of 1974 and 1978, according to Biography. In 1989, The 42-year-old "lady killer" was ...