The Florida Legislature passed a law replacing that method with an electric chair, which was built by prison inmates. The first person electrocuted by the state was Frank Johnson in 1924 ...

Michael Tanzi, 48, is scheduled to be executed April 8 at Florida State Prison for his conviction ... be carried out by lethal injection or electric chair. Tanzi was convicted of kidnapping ...

Ron, now 88, never dreamed of being a correctional officer, let alone the man in charge of a state's ... that the prison would likely be stopped from using the electric chair, so he sent Ron ...

The Florida Legislature passed a law replacing that method with an electric chair, which was built by prison inmates. The first person electrocuted by the state was Frank Johnson in 1924 ...

He was killed at the Florida State Prison in Raiford ... Florida performs executions by lethal injection or electric chair. UPI has contacted the Florida Department of Corrections for clarification.

If a corrections bill in the Florida Legislature passes, the state could see death row prisoners executed by firing squad or ...