Netflix's newest collaboration with the Russo Brothers, "The Electric State," has proved to be another colossal misstep in ...

A death row inmate who is terrified of the electric chair and being "tortured by lethal injection" has been granted the opportunity to choose the manner of his execution. Brad Sigmon, 67 ...

Louisiana is preparing this week to execute a man by nitrogen gas, the first execution in the state in 15 years.

For the first time in its history, the U. S. Supreme Court has decided to review the use of the electric chair to carry out death sentences. Since its first use in 1890, there have been several ...

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Sigmon chose the method over the electric chair or lethal injection, with his attorneys citing the unreliability of the execution drug and the barbarity of an "ancient electric chair, which would ...

On Friday, he became the first South Carolina inmate to choose the state's new firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair. Only three inmates in the U.S. have been executed by firing ...