NASHVILLE – On Thursday, Tennessee is set to carry out the second-ever execution of a blind prisoner in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state's highest court ...

May 4 -- When Florida's Supreme Court posted photos of the bleeding, bubbling corpse of 340-pound triple-murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis on the Web, the court may have sentenced to death a ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A blind prisoner convicted of killing his estranged girlfriend by setting her on fire in her car was put to death Thursday in Tennessee’s electric chair, becoming only the second ...

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COLUMBIA — State prison officials revealed details on how death sentences are carried out as they took the stand in a trial challenging the constitutionality of executing inmates by firing squad or ...

A South Carolina judge has found that the firing squad and electric chair are prohibited by the state's constitution. In an order filed Tuesday evening, Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled that the South ...

Tennessee death row inmate and convicted murderer Lee Hall is scheduled to be executed by electric chair Friday. If carried out as planned, Hall will have been the fourth person in Tennessee to choose ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina prisoner scheduled to be the first man executed in the state in more than a decade has decided to die by firing squad rather than in the electric chair later this ...