One February night in 1927, somebody smashed Daisy Welling over the head with a brick as she walked across the grounds of the Capitol, on her way home from her job as a telephone operator at the ...

In early August 1881, Lemuel W. Smith, 30, got drunk and made the bad decision to grab two metal strips on the generator that powered the lights of Buffalo, N.Y., known at the time as the “Electric ...

South Carolina is set to execute a death-row inmate by firing squad or electrocution later this month. Barring a successful appeal to the Supreme Court, the state will put Richard Bernard Moore to ...

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 South Carolina ...

Elmo Smith’s last meal was potatoes, lima beans, peach short cake and coffee. He sat alone in his prison cell and refused to see anyone. On April 2, 1962, Smith, a convicted murderer, was calm and ...

A bill moving in the state House this week would reintroduce the electric chair and firing squads as part of the death penalty. North Carolina hasn't had any executions since 2006 due to legal ...