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 ...

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 ...

Old Sparky - Ohio's electric chair in which 312 men and three women were executed - will be on public display for the first time in 80 years beginning next month at the Ohio Historical Center.

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 ...

It was here that “Old Sparky," the first electric chair, was used ... but present points of view as part of an educational component and let visitors draw their own conclusions.

Florida was forced to abandon the electric chair for six years. Since its reintroduction in 1996, there have been two similar incidents and now Florida is ready to retire Old Sparky for ever ...

An old power plant at Sing Sing that once supplied the juice for the electric chair is being ... York to see artifacts including "Old Sparky," as the chair was known; a metal "head cage" used ...

TALLAHASSEE — Two maintenance workers at Florida State Prison thought they were doing the right thing when they replaced a worn sponge in the headpiece of Old Sparky, the electric chair.