South Carolina South Carolina seeks to restart executions with electric chair, firing squad; says painless death not required South Carolina claims 'instantaneous or painless' deaths are not mandated ...

An empty electric chair is shown in the Death House at “This is the culmination of 10 years of work and study,” Southwick crowed after the device ended Kemmler’s life.

Death in the electric chair is like “being burned alive.” The firing squad is like “torture.” Those were the conclusions of a truly unprecedented judicial “two-for.” On Wednesday, a ...

A South Carolina judge ruled Tuesday that death by firing squad and the electric chair violate the state’s Constitution, calling them cruel and unusual punishment in an order halting the ...

The use of the electric chair in other states has produced similar results. The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution explicitly prohibits the use of cruel and unusual punishment. The electric ...

This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state's death chamber in Columbia, S.C., including the electric chair, right, and a firing squad chair, left.

GREENVILLE, S.C. — A South Carolina judge has found that the firing squad and electric chair are prohibited by the state's constitution, a decision sure to be swiftly appealed as the state ...

A South Carolina judge this week ruled that authorizing the execution of inmates by firing squad or the electric chair is unconstitutional. In a 39-page opinion issued Tuesday, 5th Judicial ...

Prison officials asked lawmakers for help and in 2021 they made the state's electric chair, built in 1912, the default method for executions and let prisoners choose a new firing squad if they wish.