The paint was reportedly used for road striping. Electric chairs were first used in the United States in 1890. Before the first use of Yellow Mama for the execution of Horace DeVauhan on April 8 ...

The electric chair was developed as an alternative to ... It is high time for Alabama to put Big Yellow Mama in a "black museum." ...

Like many Alabamians, Mitchem has no objection to continued use of the state’s electric chair, nicknamed Yellow Mama. But he fears electrocution may be ruled unconstitutional and has pushed to ...

Like many Alabamans, Mitchem has no objection to continued use of the state's electric chair, nicknamed Yellow Mama. But he fears electrocution may be ruled unconstitutional and has pushed to make ...

“It’s impossible that it wasn’t painful.” The electric chair, colloquially known as “Yellow Mama,” was Alabama’s primary means of execution from 1927 to 2002; Dunkins was one of 24 ...

MONTGOMERY, AL (WAFF) - The Alabama electric chair, deemed "Yellow Mama" due to its characteristic yellow paint, has not been the primary method of execution in the state for over a decade. Wednesday, ...

John Louis Evans III was put to death on Alabama's infamous Yellow Mama electric chair in 1983. Eyewitnesses described the "stench of burning flesh" as "nauseating." The drifter had killed ...

If the Senate passes the measure and the aptly named "Yellow Mama" is hauled out of storage ... person in the U.S. to be executed via the electric chair without being given the option of death ...

The Alabama House of Representatives in March voted to resume use of Alabama's "Yellow Mama" electric chair if lethal injection drugs couldn't be found. It would also keep secret the names of the ...

Alabama electric chair is known as "Yellow Mama" because of its yellow color. It was last used in 2002. Greer says several death row inmates have waited decades to be put to death, but the state is ...

The sentence was carried out at Holman Prison using an electric chair dubbed "Yellow Mama", because of its traffic-yellow coat of paint, that was built by an inmate in 1927. It had not been used ...