This historic bronze plaque marking the last debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas was originally placed on ...

For the indictment charges that Hauptmann alone planned and executed the kidnaping that ... whether they should doom Hauptmann to the electric chair or bring in a recommendation of life imprisonment.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death for spying for the Soviet Union. Decades later, we’re still grappling with what ...

On Feb. 13, 1945, Allied forces in World War II began a three-day bombing raid on Dresden, Germany, killing as many as 25,000 ...

The state has never used that method to execute a prisoner. The last time an inmate was killed by a firing squad was in 2010 ...

Sigmon is the first inmate in SC to select the state's newly implemented firing squad over lethal injection or electric chair ...

Before 1923, executions were usually performed by hanging. The Florida Legislature passed a law replacing that method with an electric chair, which was built by prison inmates. The first person ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind., Feb. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (NASDAQ: FELE) Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA-based Franklin has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Barnes de ...

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 blood began to seep through his shirt ...

She later criticized Ford's method of execution, saying it's "so easy to get a shot and go to sleep." "He should have gotten the electric chair," she said. "I would have liked to have seen you burn." ...