STATE SETS NEW EXECUTION DATE FOR ZAGORSKI
The Tennessee Supreme Court has set a new execution date of November 1 for a death row inmate who has asked for the electric chair rather than lethal injection. The state’s highest court announced the date in a written notice yesterday regarding Edmund Zagorski. He was set to die October 11 but won a late reprieve from Governor Bill Haslam amid a flurry of legal maneuvers. Among the issues was his request to die in the electric chair as a quicker and less painful execution method than lethal injection.