Tennessee governor Bill Haslam signed a bill into law today that will allow the state to execute prisoners in the electric chair if lethal injection drugs aren't available.

John C. Lesko was 3 years old when the last condemned prisoner was executed in Pennsylvania’s electric chair. He’s scheduled to be the first in 23 years on Nov. 19 when a masked executioner ...

Claim: Locked in a war with Westinghouse over which of them would control the future of electric power, Edison worked to discredit his rival's alternating current with claims that it was unsafe ...

The use of the electric chair in other states has produced similar results. The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits the use of cruel and unusual punishment. The electric ...