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Tennessee man's last words in electric chair: 'Let's rock'
Yahoo! ^ | 11/01/18 | Kimberlee Kruesi

Posted on 11/01/2018 6:49:54 PM PDT by Simon Green

Edited on 11/01/2018 8:17:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee inmate's final words were "let's rock" moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007, put to death for the killings of two men during a drug deal-turned-robbery decades ago.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; edmundzagorski; electricchair; execution; tennessee; zagorski; zap
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To: Simon Green

"Going Down" - Freddie King

21 posted on 11/01/2018 7:05:53 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: dontreadthis

heh heh heh heh...


22 posted on 11/01/2018 7:06:27 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Simon Green

You smell something burning?


23 posted on 11/01/2018 7:06:39 PM PDT by lurk
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

a distinct possibility


24 posted on 11/01/2018 7:07:07 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Simon Green

I think i would have gone with lethal injection. Getting fried inside out sounds like it might hurt a little.


25 posted on 11/01/2018 7:07:37 PM PDT by vespa300
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To: Simon Green

Does he think he’s Al Bundy?


26 posted on 11/01/2018 7:08:43 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: max americana

Kimberlee Kruesi
27 posted on 11/01/2018 7:08:57 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Simon Green

You know, if a man or woman murders several people, I would actually be for executing them, reviving them, and then killing them again, and then reviving them,...and then killing them, for however many people they murdered.


28 posted on 11/01/2018 7:09:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: bgill
When arrested..

When Zagorski plead for mercy from the Governor


29 posted on 11/01/2018 7:15:31 PM PDT by caww
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To: Simon Green
In opting for the electric chair over a lethal injection as Tennessee allowed him, Zagorski had argued it would be a quicker and less painful way to die.

This is probably the case. It's pretty spectacular for the onlookers but in fact the voltage will reach the brain before the pain does. And unlike lethal injection, the subject won't be awakening during the process.

I suspect a bullet to the medulla oblongata or nitrogen asphyxiation would be still less likely to cause trauma to the subject but the only people who could testify to the contrary aren't in a position to do so.

30 posted on 11/01/2018 7:16:32 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Simon Green

Channeling Todd Beamer? (”Let’s roll.”)


31 posted on 11/01/2018 7:17:26 PM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: Songcraft
Eddy Grant: "Electric Avenue"
32 posted on 11/01/2018 7:20:09 PM PDT by Publius
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To: Secret Agent Man

The guy was in the drug lifestyle buying selling and likely using.....they do tend to knife each other when deals fall apart..He shot John Dotson and Jimmy Porter and then slit their throats robbing the two men after they came to him to buy marijuana.


33 posted on 11/01/2018 7:20:29 PM PDT by caww
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To: wardaddy; GailA; Tennessee Nana; Lumper20; Ingtar; RedMonqey

He dead.


34 posted on 11/01/2018 7:20:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: The people have spoken

I’m thinking Al Bundy.


35 posted on 11/01/2018 7:21:48 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: caww

36 posted on 11/01/2018 7:24:51 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

He turned from Frank Burns to (old) Trapper John.


37 posted on 11/01/2018 7:24:54 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Simon Green
Why should the murderer have a choice of execution?!?

That should be left up to the judge, the jury, or... hey... the winner of a Pick-the-Execution-Method lottery.

38 posted on 11/01/2018 7:25:49 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: The people have spoken

Or Al Bundy ... “Let’s Rock”


39 posted on 11/01/2018 7:27:19 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Steely Tom

I think they misheard

he likely said

Let’s Wok!..

Because he certainly got fried


40 posted on 11/01/2018 7:28:26 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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