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Tennessee inmate scheduled to die in electric chair

Tennessee inmate scheduled to die in electric chair | iNFOnews.ca
In this undated photo released by Fred Leuchter, center, in October 2018, he stands near the control panel for the electric chair he built for Tennessee in 1988-9. Leuchter says he is afraid the chair will malfunction at an execution scheduled for Thursday because of later modifications. Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam says he is confident it will work. (Fred Leuchter via AP)
Original Publication Date: October 31, 2018 2:09PM
Publication Updated: April 22, 2025 3:36AM

NASHVILLE – Tennessee is scheduled to execute a double-murderer in the electric chair Thursday evening.

If it goes ahead as scheduled, Edmund Zagorski will be only the second person put to death by electrocution in Tennessee since 1960. Daryl Holton chose to die in the electric chair in 2007.

The last person to be executed by electrocution in the U.S. was Robert Gleason, who was put to death in Virginia in 2013.

Zagorski chose the chair after his legal challenge to Tennessee’s midazolam-based lethal injection protocol failed. His attorneys say he believes death by electrocution will be quicker, but he maintains that both methods are unconstitutional.

Zagorski was sentenced to die in 1984 for the murder of two men in a drug deal.

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