The First Photograph of an Execution by Electric Chair

With Tennessee Senators voting to reinstate the electric chair to execute capital inmates, TIME looks at the first known photograph of this controversial form of capital punishment.
The State

Second SC death row inmate faces electric chair after issued execution notice

A second death row inmate has been given an execution notice for the end of June after state lawmakers changed an oddity in South Carolina’s execution law that prevented executions from being carried ...
The Sun News

SC is expected to carry out its first inmate execution in a decade. Here’s what we know.

Editor’s note: After this story was published, the South Carolina Supreme Court vacated all execution notices and ordered the court’s clerk not to reissue them until the state could offer the firing ...
WEAU

South Carolina wants to restart executions with firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Lawyers for four death row inmates who have run out of appeals argued to the South Carolina Supreme Court on Tuesday that the state’s old electric chair and new firing squad are ...