MANSFIELD – The original electric chair, dubbed "Old Sparky," from the Columbus Penitentiary ... we had to clear the room. They were just fascinated by it," Smith said. "We're getting 89 more ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio's old electric chair will be on public view for the first time in 80 ... with bare-bones identifying labels in a small room fitting not more than a dozen people -- to ...

The pictures show the interior of the West Viriginia State Penitentiary, including the main attraction, Old Sparky - the electric chair built ... peruse the isolation room, the cell block and ...

Courts in two states — Georgia and Nebraska — have declared the electric chair unconstitutional. The state's original chair — dubbed Old Sparky ... that the room filled with the smell ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The state's 105-year-old electric chair has been unplugged. "Old Sparky," which had not ... by injection Feb. 19 in the same room where the chair sat at the Lucasville ...

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 ...

the state of Tennessee executed 125 people and used the electric chair as its sole method of death. Those on death row had no options other than what prisoners nicknamed "old sparky." From 1960 ...

The state's electric chair is quietly replaced with a modern version. There are 371 potential candidates on death row. "Old Sparky" _ the 76-year-old cracking, oaken electric chair at Florida ...

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 ...

IN 1999 Raymond Mata junior killed his ex-girlfriend's three-year-old son. He dismembered the ... His state, Nebraska, planned to send him to the electric chair. He considered that a cruel and ...