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 ...

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 ...

One February night in 1927, somebody smashed Daisy Welling over the head with a brick as she walked across the grounds of the Capitol, on her way home from her job as a telephone operator at the ...

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 ...

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 old ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people commonly associate the United States death penalty with electrocution by electric chair. But the practice is rarely used anymore in favor of lethal injection, which is seen to be a much ...