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 ...

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 ...

Two Greenville men were scheduled to be executed this month, marking the state’s first use of the electric chair in 13 years. But the chair’s return was halted Wednesday when the S.C. Supreme Court ...

If there were any violence, it would have been underneath the shroud that covered Edmund Zagorski’s face. The 63-year-old convicted killer died Thursday night at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution ...

A Tennessee inmate's final words were "let's rock" moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007, put to death Thursday for shooting two men and ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee inmate’s final words were “let’s rock” moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state ...