James D. Ford, who was convicted of killing a young married couple on a remote fishing trip, is scheduled to be executed ...

The Florida Legislature passed a law replacing that method with an electric chair, which was built by prison inmates. The first person electrocuted by the state was Frank Johnson in 1924 ...

Recently, there has been a series of malfunctions that demonstrate the cruelty of using the electric chair. This July during the execution of Allen Lee Davis, his blood began to seep through his shirt ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Condemned South Carolina inmate Brad Sigmon has chosen to die next month by a firing squad. He would be the first U.S. inmate shot to death in an execution in 15 years.