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Death Row Inmate Is Being Forced to Choose: Firing Squad or Electric Chair

04.15.22

By Gabrielle Caplan
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The State That Executed a Black Child Wants to Bring Back the Firing Squad

05.06.21

By Samir Ferdowsi
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Guy who made Tennessee’s electric chair is worried it will malfunction in tonight’s execution

11.01.18

By Tess Owen
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South Carolina wants to start executing people with the electric chair again

03.08.18

By Taylor Dolven
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Virginia Governor Says No to Electric Chair, Yes to Secretly Making Lethal Injection Drugs

04.11.16

By Tess Owen
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Governor Has Until Midnight to Decide If Virginia Will Bring Back the Electric Chair

04.10.16

By Tess Owen
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Should There Be a Death Penalty? – The People Speak

04.01.15

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Utah Firing Squad Proposal Points to Death Penalty Crisis

03.11.15

By Colleen Curry
Has the United States Run Out of Ways to Make the Death Penalty More Humane?

11.23.14

By Jules Suzdaltsev
Tennessee Is Bringing Back the Electric Chair

05.25.14

By Grace Wyler
The Canadian Government Is Withholding Documents Concerning the Torture of Children

07.19.13

By Dave Dean
What’s the Cheapest Way to Execute Evildoers?

04.03.12

By Allison Van Siclen

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Gaming

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