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 ...
Author of the new book, Edison & the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death, Mark Essig joins Guest Host Patt Morrison to discuss the race to define which electric current would take hold in ...
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 ...
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What the electric chair really feels like

2,000 volts of electricity surge through your body, you will wish you were dead, but the electric chair will make sure you ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - This has been argued for decades and Wednesday, it's before the Tennessee Supreme Court: Is the electric chair cruel and unusual punishment? A group of death row inmates is trying ...