MANSFIELD – The original electric chair, dubbed "Old Sparky," from the Columbus Penitentiary in Columbus has made its way to the Ohio State Reformatory. Paul Smith, executive director of the ...

The city of McAlester, Oklahoma, is preparing to breathe new life into a feud over an instrument of death — the electric chair ... long coveted the chair known as “Old Sparky,” which became ...

An electric chair called Old Sparky, a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood and a cage that mental patients used to be locked up in will go on display in a museum. The exhibit at Ohio's Historical Centre ...

Authorities said Friday that one reason Florida recently replaced "Old Sparky," the state's 76-year-old electric chair, with a replica was to accommodate beefy inmates like Davis, 54, a welder who ...

The infamous electric chair execution - dubbed Old Sparky - could become a regular method in death penalty cases again in a US state from tomorrow. Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has until ...

LINCOLN — Residents of a small southwest Nebraska town have a question for state officials: You’re not doing anything with that old electric chair ... think “Old Sparky’’ could be ...

With executions in the news recently, NewsNet5 dug up some old video and coverage of Ohio's electric chair, which was last used in 1963. That seat of fire was called "Old Sparky" or "Old ...

red-oak electric chair known as “Old Sparky,” the marquee outside Sonny’s Bar-B-Q on U.S. Highway 301 wasn’t advertising barbecue. “Go All the Way,” the big black letters urged ...

TALLAHASSEE – “Old Sparky” – the 76-year-old cracked, oaken electric chair at Florida State Prison – has been quietly replaced under cover of darkness by a sturdier modern replica.

The electric chair -- nicknamed "Old Sparky" -- was used to execute 312 and three women between 1897 and 1963. "If you look closely, it does show signs of wear on it, that a lot of people have ...