Unlike the firing squad, South Carolina has had some experience with the electric chair. Since 1976, the state has electrocuted seven people. Judge Newman found from each of these cases that ...

The state's electric chair, built in 1912 ... state's 43 executions since the death penalty was restarted in the U.S. in 1976. Gov. Henry McMaster said he will follow longtime tradition and ...

Only seven men have been executed by electric chair in the state since 1976. Testimony revealed that during an electric chair execution a voltage sequence in three phases occurs, starting at ...

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 ...

Only three inmates in the US have been executed by firing squad since 1976. All were in Utah ... It won't be far from the electric chair. Bulletproof glass was installed on the witness window ...

South Carolina has executed 43 inmates since the death penalty was restarted in the US in 1976. Nearly all inmates ... a choice between it and the old electric chair. The inmates sued, saying ...

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 ...

Electric chair tested and firing squad prepared for ... state's 43 executions since the death penalty was restarted in the US in 1976. Gov. Henry McMaster said he will follow longtime tradition ...

No governor has ever commuted a death sentence in the state, where 46 other prisoners have been executed since the death penalty resumed in the U.S. in 1976. Seven have died in the electric chair ...