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~ Edmund Zagorski, 01Nov18, (TN) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: October 10, 2018, 11:32 pm
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Judge orders Zagorski's attorney must have phone access before
execution can proceed--
Monday, October 29, 2018
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) - A federal judge has ruled that the
electric chair execution of death row inmate Edmund Zagorski
cannot proceed unless his attorney can get access to a phone
before and during the execution.
The order, from federal middle Tennessee district judge Aleta
Trauger, said the Tennessee Department of Correction must
provide Zagorski’s Attorney Kelley Henry with “immediate access”
to a telephone to communicate with courts or other officials.
Other witnesses, including seven media witnesses, are barred
from bringing in phones.
In issuing the order, Judge Trauger said Zagorski’s execution is
expected to continue forward on November 1 after TDOC installs
the phone, saying “the phone installation will not prevent the
state from carrying out the plaintiff’s sentence as scheduled.”
Neysa Taylor, a spokesperson for TDOC said state officials are
reviewing the order to determine what next steps to take.
Zagorski’s attorney also argued that forcing Zagorski to choose
between electrocution and lethal injection was unconstitutional,
along with the electrocution method itself. Judge Trauger
rejected those claims Monday.
Zagorski is scheduled to be put to death by the electric chair
shortly after 7pm Thursday, in accordance with his wishes. The
electric chair has been used only two other times in the last 60
years in Tennessee to put a condemned inmate to death, one in
1960 and the other in 2007.
Zagorski was convicted of a 1983 double murder of John Dale
Dotson and Jimmy Porter after setting up a bogus drug deal.
Zagorski was said to have shot both men and then slit their
throats.
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Re: ~ Edmund Zagorski, 01Nov18, (TN) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: October 30, 2018, 8:45 pm
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Re: ~ Edmund Zagorski, 01Nov18, (TN) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: November 1, 2018, 9:03 pm
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Tennessee executes Edmund Zagorski by electric chair--
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
NASHVILLE – Death row inmate Edmund Zagorski died at 7:26 p.m.
CDT Thursday after Tennessee prison officials electrocuted him
with the electric chair. He was 63.
He is the 134th person put to death by Tennessee since 1916 and
the second person this year after Billy Ray Irick’s execution by
lethal injection on Aug. 9. He is the first person to die by
electric chair since Daryl Horton's execution in 2007.
Two minutes before it was set to begin at 7 p.m., the U.S.
Supreme Court denied Zagorski's appeal on the grounds of the
unconstitutionality of choosing between the electric chair and
lethal injection.
As dark clouds loomed over Riverbend Maximum Security
Institution in Nashville and the sunset changed the sky from
bright pink to black, a police-escorted van arrived.
Eight people believed to be family members of the victims
entered the prison to witness the execution.
They waited in front of a covered large window that looked into
the execution chamber where on the other side of the glass
Zagorski sat pinned in the electric chair, held down by buckles
and straps with electrodes fastened to his feet.
Zagorski pronounced his last words: "Let’s rock."
Then his face was covered with a black shroud.
The warden gave the signal to proceed. Zagorski lifted his right
hand several times in what looked like attempts to wave, before
he clenched his hands into a fist as the first current ran 1,750
volts of electricity through his body for 20 seconds.
There was a short pause before the second jolt was administered
for 15 seconds.
The doctor overseeing the death appeared in view to check on
Zagorski’s vitals.
Zagorski was dead. The blinds into the chamber closed.
Ten minutes later, the victims' families exited the building and
drove away in the van without speaking publicly.
"The death of Edmund Zagorski was carried out by means of
electrocution on Nov. 1, 2018," Neysa Taylor, director of
communications for the Tennessee Department of Correction, said
in a press conference.
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