A sign introduces visitors with the name bestowed by prisoners: “Gruesome Gertie.” On a nearby wall are the faces of the last 20 men who sizzled to their deaths while belted in, slightly reclined.

Under the new law, nitrogen hypoxia will be added to the available execution methods, along with the reintroduction of the electric chair, which death row inmates dubbed "Gruesome Gertie." ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991, when the state moved to lethal ...

The first execution using the state's electric chair, later dubbed Gruesome Gertie, was in 1941 in Livingston Parish. In 1956, the Legislature moved all executions to the Louisiana State ...

Louisiana’s infamous electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie” — was last used for an execution in 1991 when the state moved to lethal injections as the sole ...

For four decades until 1991, when the state moved to lethal injections, Louisiana had used the electric chair — dubbed by death row inmates as “Gruesome Gertie.” Currently, only eight states ...

A little after midnight in the early hours of April 5, 1984, Elmo Patrick Sonnier was pronounced dead from the electric currents of "Gruesome Gertie", the sardonic nickname given to Louisiana's ...