Harold Wayne Nichols declined to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection for his Dec. 11 execution.

Harold Wayne Nichols, 62, was sentenced to death in 1990 after he was convicted of raping and murdering Karen Pulley, a ...

A man with a stethoscope and blue latex gloves entered the room, and for a minute he bent over Bryant, putting the stethoscope to different parts of his chest. At 6:05 a prison official declared that ...

Stephen Bryant, 44, was executed for killing a man in his home and writing "catch me if u can" on the wall with the victim's ...

Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

Harold Wayne Nichols, a death row inmate in Tennessee, has declined to select his preferred execution method for his ...

May 4 -- When Florida's Supreme Court posted photos of the bleeding, bubbling corpse of 340-pound triple-murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis on the Web, the court may have sentenced to death a ...

With questions about the effectiveness and humaneness of lethal injections to execute inmates growing across the nation, Tennessee has turned to the electric chair as an alternative, becoming 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 ...