NASHVILLE – On Thursday, Tennessee is set to carry out the second-ever execution of a blind prisoner in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. The state's highest ...

Image: Lee Standifer was beaten and stabbed to death Pic: Farragut Admiral yearbook, 1976 Moments before the ... had also chosen the electric chair over lethal injection, despite proponents ...

And now, according to most experts, the electric chair is on its last legs ... but Spivey committed his crime in 1976. In fact, there are only two states where the chair is still effectively ...

The law forces death row inmates to choose between firing squad or electric chair, with the electric chair ... people to death using this method since 1976, when the Supreme Court ended a brief ...

The electric chair: Tennessee could be the first state ... Raybin, who helped write Tennessee's death penalty statute as a prosecutor in 1976, said Zagorski's decision, just days before he ...

Earlier this year, Hall chose the electric chair over lethal injection as allowed under state law. His lawyer said it also would be the first electrocution of a blind inmate since the 1976 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee has decided how it will respond to a nationwide scarcity of lethal injection drugs for death-row inmates: with the electric chair. Republican Gov. Bill Haslam signed a ...

Prior to lethal injection, Louisiana used an electric chair dating back to when capital punishment resumed in the United States in 1976.The legislative session begins Mar. 10. If the bill passes ...

Sigmon didn’t pick the electric chair because it would “burn and cook ... since the death penalty was restarted in the US in 1976. Sigmon’s lawyers have one last appeal, asking the state ...

He chose the electric chair over Tennessee’s preferred execution ... U.S. since the Supreme Court allowed executions to resume in 1976. Court documents state that Hall killed Traci Crozier ...

Convicted cop killer Gregory Resnover, 43, died in Indiana’s electric chair Thursday, the third person executed in the state since the death penalty was restored in 1976. It was the first ...