The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the “Walls Unit.” ...

Tennessee is poised to use the electric chair for the first time in 11 years when it executes death row inmate Edmund Zagorski on Nov. 1. Earlier this month, Zagorski chose to die by electric chair ...

South Carolina death row inmate Stephen Bryant chooses firing squad execution for Nov. 14, becoming the third this year to ...

Infamous mass murderer George Banks, who slaughtered 13 people including five of his own children, has died in state prison at the age of 83, according to the Pennsylvania Department of ...

NASHVILLE (AP) — A Tennessee inmate's final words were "let's rock" moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007, put to death Thursday for shooting ...

A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — When a South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend’s parents with a baseball bat steps into the death row chamber Friday night, it won’t be lethal injection or electrocution that ...

Editor's note: This is the latest edition of Curious Mississippi, a service to the readers of the Clarion Ledger. Other questions answered by Curious Mississippi have surrounded recycling, potholes, ...

Singleton spent his last three decades in prison in legal limbo after the state Supreme Court ruled he wasn't competent to be executed because he didn't understand he could die in the electric chair ...