Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

Condemned murderer Edmund Zagorski requested to die this week by electrocution in Tennessee. Just three hours before the 63-year-old man was scheduled to die Thursday, Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — If Tennessee electrocutes Edmund Zagorski on Thursday, it will be in an electric chair built by a self-taught execution expert who is no longer welcome in the prison system and ...

In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...

Lawyers for two South Carolina inmates who face executions have asked the state’s highest court to delay scheduling their deaths until a lower court can decide whether the electric chair and firing ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia's Republican-dominated House of Delegates has approved a bill that would allow prison officials to execute inmates in the electric chair if lethal injection drugs are ...

Tennessee death row inmate Harold Wayne Nichols on Monday declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution, meaning the state will default to lethal ...