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Another condemned inmate chooses death by electric chair
By nypost.com
Published: 11/27/2018

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee inmate set to be put to death next week has requested the electric chair and not the state’s preferred method of a lethal injection, becoming the second inmate this year to make that choice as an execution date loomed.

Lawyers for David Earl Miller have argued that Tennessee’s midazolam-based, three-drug injection method causes excruciating pain. In a court filing Monday, attorneys for the state said Miller had picked the electric chair, though Miller’s attorneys had requested an extension of a deadline for him to make a choice.

Miller became the second death row inmate in Tennessee to request electrocution since Edmund Zagorski, who was put to death in the state’s electric chair on Nov. 1.

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