Tennessee is scheduled to execute death row inmate Edmund Zagorski using the electric chair Nov. 1, the first time the chair has been used here in 11 years. Gov. Bill Haslam delayed the execution to ...

Lawmakers across the state are responding to the failed execution attempt of Christa Pike, a woman sentenced to death for crimes she committed when she was 18.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Thursday called on Tennessee to reintroduce the electric chair for executions after death-row prisoner Christa Pike survived two lethal injections the day before.

Tennessee paused executions after a failed attempt, sparking calls to bring back the electric chair as a solution.

Blackburn pledged to ‘bring back the electric chair’ if she is elected to be Tennessee’s next governor.

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Christa Pike's failed execution has triggered horror, consternation and an acute case of déjà vu. Four years after pausing executions to review Tennessee’s lethal injection protocol, Gov. Bill Lee and ...