Then, at 7:13, it happened. The blinds into the execution chamber were raised, and there he was. Edmund Zagorski was strapped into the electric chair. He looked different than his mug shots.

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 ...

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.

AP Photo An empty electric chair is shown in the Death House at “This is the culmination of 10 years of work and study,” Southwick crowed after the device ended Kemmler’s life.

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.

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.

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.