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 ...

March 21 -- When Florida officials executed triple murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis in July 1999, they feared the hefty man's 340-pound-body might crush the decades-old model. So Florida built a new ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — As the execution of convicted murder suspect Duane Owen approaches tonight, the CBS12 News I-Team has compiled a list of state prisoners from our area who have ...

LINCOLN - The fate of Nebraska's electric chair will be on the docket today at the Nebraska Supreme Court.The high court will hear arguments on whether the electric chair, Nebraska's sole means of ...

Knoxville, Tenn. (WBIR) On Friday afternoon, Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam defended his decision to sign a bill that requires the use of the electric chair to carry out executions if lethal injection ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court will hear arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, ...

In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...

Vladimir Putin’s troops are accused of carrying out a horrific campaign of violence against Ukrainians inside a home-made torture prison, including tying inmates to electric chairs and castrating them ...

One February night in 1927, somebody smashed Daisy Welling over the head with a brick as she walked across the grounds of the Capitol, on her way home from her job as a telephone operator at the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s highest court heard arguments Thursday on whether a newly organized firing squad or the old electric chair are legal ways to execute inmates in the state, which ...