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 ...

James Tannehill, whose museum hosted the electric chair in the 1980s ... He's just worried that if no one acts, Old Sparky will be left to rot — or wind up where it doesn't belong.

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 ...

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 ...

Old Sparky--there has been nothing gentle about America’s most lethal line of furniture. More than 4,300 people in 26 states have gone to the electric chair since William Kemmler, convicted of ...

Some people in McCook—population just under 8,000—think “Old Sparky’’ could be a tourist ... death chamber at the penitentiary. The electric chair became the state’s sole means of ...

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 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 ...

But often, that’s not the way it works. In his book Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty, Anthony Galvin tells the story of several horrific death chamber scenes.

Tafero had a 7:01 a.m. appointment with Florida’s “Old Sparky” — the three-legged electric chair constructed of oak by prison inmates decades earlier. Tafero was sentenced to death ...

Many techniques existed in other countries, wrote author Anthony Galvin in his 2015 book, “Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death Penalty.” These included burning ...