Barring an 11th-hour stay, 53-year-old inmate Lee Hall is scheduled to die in the electric chair Thursday evening. Hall was convicted in the 1991 burning death of his estranged girlfriend.

The ghosts of Tennessee's electric chair far outnumber the 126 men who have died while sitting in it. At least that's how the story goes. Legend has it that the chair was built using wood from the ...

Denno said electric chairs have “a history of botches that has only gotten worse.” In two Florida executions in the 1990s, smoke and flames shot from the condemned inmates’ heads.

On the morning of May 29, 1928, three guards led Jackson down a long corridor on the fourth floor of the District jail. Their destination was a straight-backed wooden seat, illuminated by a beam of ...

Q: My son knocked over one of our kitchen chairs and broke the top slat. It’s a Pottery Barn Isabella chair that we got in 2014, and unfortunately they no longer make the chair in this color ...

Tennessee is going to expand its use of the electric chair, making electrocution the state’s method of execution if lethal injection is not available. The new law, signed by Gov. Bill Haslam (R ...