Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1989, The 42-year-old "lady killer" was sentenced to capital punishment—a.k.a. the death penalty—in Florida after confessing to ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — If Tennessee electrocutes Edmund Zagorski on Thursday, it will be in an electric chair built by a self-taught execution expert who is no longer welcome in the prison system and ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Two South Carolina death row inmates have asked an appellate court to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — If Tennessee electrocutes Edmund Zagorski on Thursday, it will be in an electric chair built by a self-taught execution expert who is no longer welcome in the prison system and who ...

A federal judge denied two South Carolina death row inmates’ request for an injunction, which would delay their upcoming executions. In his order issued Friday, Judge Robert Bryan Harwell said the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Tennessee death row inmate and convicted murderer Lee Hall is scheduled ...

Edmund Zagorski was executed by electric chair Thursday in a Nashville, Tenn., prison after challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection drugs and then choosing instead to die by ...