For the first time in its history ... Recently, there has been a series of malfunctions that demonstrate the cruelty of using the electric chair. This July during the execution of Allen Lee Davis, his ...

Eventually, the day of the first electric chair execution came; the hapless guinea pig was a convicted murder named William Kemmler. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Southwick was ceremoniously invited to ...

Then, the electric chair became the most widespread method. In 1982, the first execution by lethal injection was carried out by the state of Texas, after which it gradually replaced the electric ...

Since it first instituted capital punishment in 1894, the State of Indiana has executed 92 prisoners. In the state’s 130-year ...

Nebraska has become the first US state to use the opioid ... Before Moore, Nebraska's last execution was in 1997, using the electric chair.