South Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled two execution methods, the firing squad and electric chair, do not violate the state’s constitution. Two years after Gov. Henry McMaster signed legislation making ...
March 21 -- When Florida officials executed triple murderer Allen Lee "Tiny" Davis in July 1999, they feared the hefty man's 340-pound-body might crush the decades-old model. So Florida built a new ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Whether South Carolina can start executing prisoners again either with a firing squad or electric chair is now in the hands of a judge after a trial over whether shooting or ...
A South Carolina judge has found that the firing squad and electric chair are prohibited by the state's constitution. In an order filed Tuesday evening, Judge Jocelyn Newman ruled that the South ...
Yesterday, the Nebraska Supreme Court found 6-1 the use of the electric chair unconstitutional under the state's constitution. The Omaha World-Herald noted: There was court testimony acknowledging a ...