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  • Zagorski files suit against use of electric chair, claiming it's 'utterly barbaric'

    10/27/2018 3:48:36 PM PDT · by Libloather · 56 replies
    News Channel 5 ^ | 10/27/18 | Jason Lamb
    NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Attorneys for death row inmate Edmund Zagorski filed yet another suit in federal court Friday in what is likely among one of his final options to stop his upcoming death penalty, set to be carried out in the electric chair on Thursday. In this latest lawsuit, Zagorski’s attorney Kelley Henry claims the state’s method of execution by electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment and “utterly barbaric,” despite Zagorski selecting the electric chair over lethal injection – a choice that Henry has described as the lesser of two evils. ​​Zagorski’s attorney claims both forms of execution are unconstitutional,...