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Tennessee executes murderer Edmund Zagorski in electric chair — per his request
By nbcnews.com- David K. Li and Doha Madani
Published: 11/02/2018

A double-murderer was put to death in the electric chair on Thursday night, as the state of Tennessee made good on the killer’s grim request to perish by electrocution and not lethal injection.

Edmund Zagorski, 63, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. CT (8:26 p.m. ET) at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Corrections said at a press conference.

He was the nation's first electric chair death in five years.

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