Posted on 10/23/2018 9:07:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Attorneys for a Tennessee death row prisoner were trying to spare him from lethal injection and they succeeded — but not the way they hoped.
Instead of getting the needle, Edmund Zagorski is scheduled to die in the electric chair on Nov. 1.
If the execution goes forward, he will be only the second person to be executed that way in Tennessee since 1960.
His case illustrates how hard it is for states to find ways to execute prisoners that courts will deem humane; the challenge attorneys face trying to save their clients from execution; and the frustration of some judges at those attorneys’ maneuverings.
Zagorski was sentenced to die in 1984 for robbing and killing two men during a drug deal. Earlier this month Tennessee’s Supreme Court turned down his challenge to the state’s execution drugs.
“I really thought we would prevail,” said his attorney, Kelley Henry. “I believe in our proofs. I believe we have shown this is torture.” …
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This is a shocking development concerning a highly charged issue which will surely jolt the public.
A murderer is worried about being put to sleep?
Well then he can be fried! Bye.
According to press reports, Zagorsky “lured the two men into a wooded area in Robertson County under the pretense of a drug deal. Once there, petitioner shot both men and slit their throats . . . . “
So if he doesn’t want the electric chair, perhaps he’d be OK with having his throat slit like he did to his victims.
Finally something in Tennessee will use more electricity than Al Gore’s home.
Out of the fire; into the frying pan.
I think a firing squad is the way to go a la Gary Gilmore. I would pick that for myself over the electric chair or lethal injection any day. Bang and it’s over.
Sentenced in 1984.
I can’t see where getting fried by high current and voltage is less humane than being put to sleep and dying peacefully in your sleep.
If the anti-death penalty zealots are arguing that lethal injection is not humane, then how can they NOT argue electrocution is not humane?
Frankly, who cares? Hanging, bullets, electrocution, drugs - they all do the job quickly and that’s all that matters.
Again, I’m pretty sure that it’s not just me, but lots of you FReepers have undergone surgery with general anesthesia? They could have kilt me at any time and I simply wouldn’t have woken up. Never would have had a clue. .308 would work just fine for a lethal injection cranial placement.
Fire up Ol’ Sparky...
Or baseball bat, exacto knife and blowtorch, takes a couple of hours longer but just as dead.
Nicely done!!
“Finally something in Tennessee will use more electricity than Al Gore’s home.”
Kind of a good news-bad news thing, huh?
Nitrogen (with no oxygen) or carbon monoxicde: you just go to sleep and don’t wake up.
Toxins come from the ground. How can something that comes from the ground ultimately leave it permanently polluted? Even ionizing radiation breaks down eventually.
All corpses are recycled, even mummies. Oxygen is the ultimate recycler.
I agree. I have gone ‘down under’ a couple of times, and it worked out okay. This was always at a Veterans Hospital.
Once a good anesthesiologist knows your vitals, your body type, your temperment (hypochondria?) and general health, they can decide what works best to keep you out but still safely breathing.
Accidents do happen, but I never had one yet. This would be the way to do for me.
I hear that sometimes that electric chair does not work to kill the occupant during the first shock. Firing Squad would be my second choice, but with sharpshooters, so I don’t end up just being a felled Bullet Magnet in agony.
Reminds me of that Far Side cartoon with the 2 doors in Hell.
I believe I was given Fentanyl the last time I had a procedure.
They said what they always say when they were ready. They said "count back from one hundred".
Now, normally, I would make it to around 98 or so. THIS time I had only formed the word 100 in my mind and couldn't even purse my lips to begin before I was out like a light. BAMMO!
I'm guessing longtime drug addicts build up a tolerance. Reportedly, Price and Michael Jackson used Fentanyl and were still able to walk around.
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