For the first time in its history, the U. S. Supreme Court has decided to review the use of the electric chair to carry out death sentences. Since its first use in 1890, there have been several ...

South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad on Friday, the first use of the method in the United States in ...

he would die in South Carolina’s ancient electric chair, which would burn and cook him alive.” In prior rejected appeals to ...

South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first ...

Sigmon chose the firing squad over the electric chair or lethal injection ... the constitutionality of all its execution methods in court records but the South Carolina Attorney General's Office ...