Electric Chair

The El Paso shooter likely won't be executed by the electric chair if he's sentenced to death.

The inmates argued that the state has the means to orchestrate their deaths by firing squad.

"He [requested this method] not because he thought that it was a humane way to die, but because he thought that the three-drug cocktail that Tennessee had planned to use was even worse," a U.S. Supreme Court Justice said.

Three days before his scheduled execution, convicted killer Edmund Zagorski convinced Tennessee's Supreme Court to spare him death by lethal injection in favor of the electric chair.

The most important question is whether killing prisoners with nitrogen is cruel and unusual, the constitutional threshold for death penalty implementation.

A state representative employed a version of the president's famous "Make America great again" slogan in his death penalty push.

Cecil Clayton, who was found guilty of killing a sheriff's deputy in 1996, was missing parts of his brain's frontal lobe.

Despite missing a portion of his brain, Cecil Clayton is scheduled to be executed Tuesday afternoon.