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Tennessee man's last words in electric chair: 'Let's rock'
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| 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.
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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: SaveFerris
The murder of John Dale Dotson and Jimmy Porter happened in April of 1983..... Zagorski convinced the men that he would sell them 100 lbs. of marijuana, when in reality, he had no plans of selling the drugs, just taking the money.
When the deal was supposed to go down, Zagorski shot the two men, slit their throats, and stole their money before fleeing.... He later had a shootout with police before being taken into custody.
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:32:04 PM PDT
by
caww
To: Simon Green; All
"Remember how I found you there
Alone in your electric chair"
[apologies to the Piano Man]
And allow me to get this in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLcAzYCueAY
ff
To: caww
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:35:31 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: vespa300
I think i would have gone with lethal injection. Getting fried inside out sounds like it might hurt a little. It hurts about as much as getting hit by a freight train going 90 miles per hour.
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:37:25 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: Simon Green
I started a vacation in Florida the day after they fried Ted Bundy. Obviously that was the #1 story on the local news that night.In one of the "on scene" reports they showed,featuring protesters for and against the execution, you could see a sign that said "Have A Seat,Ted".
Classic.
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:38:30 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
To: Secret Agent Man
I also like the option from the Mel Gibson movie Payback where Kris kristofferson is torturing mel to potential death and says he’ll hook up a blood transfusion to make it last 3 weeks if he has to.
But then again, I’m one who thinks the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment is the most objectional part of the constitution. For some of these criminals and murderers there just isn’t a punishment that is too cruel, painful or unusual enough.
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:42:26 PM PDT
by
Newtoidaho
(All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
To: LegendHasIt
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:43:00 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
To: Simon Green
Having been put under anesthesia before, I would have went with lethal injection
Went to sleep and woke up like nothing ever happened
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:44:14 PM PDT
by
rdcbn
To: Simon Green
"Let's Do It!" - Gary Gilmore.
Sorry chief. It's been done.
To: Chode
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:47:45 PM PDT
by
ameribbean expat
(Socialism is like a nude beach - - sounds great til you actually get there. -ntnt- David Burge.)
To: caww
That first photo isnt Zagorski, its Robert Glen Coe. Coe sexually assaulted and killed a little girl not far from my grandparents home in the late 70s. It was a shocking crime in a small town. I will never forget it. By the time Tennessee executed him I was practicing law and knew his appellate attorney. His case gave me nightmares.
To: Simon Green
Good luck, Mr. Zagorski. /s
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:53:14 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: SpaceBar
#11. No, he did not become “part of the resistance”. His electrical resistance failed him and fried him. Ommmmhhh!
To: Simon Green
The electric current running through his brain would have been as quick and effective as a bullet. The rigidity was caused by the electrical current through his muscles.
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posted on
11/01/2018 7:58:32 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the DemocRats are all cats.)
To: Publius
That's a good choice, Publius, which surely would have helped to satisfy his last request there. (After listening to your song selection, I was looking around in youtube to make a reply, and found
"Highway To Hell", and another one that might qualify as soft rock,
"You Light Up My Life", and maybe I ought to post this one now ==>
"It's All Over Now", but I don't think that guy's ears are working too good anymore.)
To: wastedyears
Tennessee just seized 2 kilos of fentanyl in a drug bust. Use some of it for executions. 1 mg would be 10 times the lethal dose in a non-addict so give him 5 mg.
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posted on
11/01/2018 8:01:54 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the DemocRats are all cats.)
To: Simon Green
Now that was an efficient use of electrical power.Its just too bad they put water on the sponge.This guy should have burned.
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posted on
11/01/2018 8:04:48 PM PDT
by
puppypusher
( The world is going to the dogs.)
To: puppypusher
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posted on
11/01/2018 8:09:03 PM PDT
by
Publius
To: Steely Tom
Is that all you got!
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posted on
11/01/2018 8:12:12 PM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
To: SpaceBar
He became part of the resistance, like Hillary should too.
In the end, there was one law he was not up to breaking: Ohm's law.
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posted on
11/01/2018 8:50:46 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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