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Tennessee death row inmate is running out of legal options
By ktar.com
Published: 10/18/2018

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee inmate who won a last-minute reprieve sparing him from execution last week may be running out of options, and a new date with the death chamber could be set as early as the end of the month, court records show.

Edmund Zagorksi, who was sentenced to die in 1984 for killing two men he robbed during a drug deal, has no new execution date scheduled after the state’s plans for a lethal injection last Thursday were cancelled amid a flurry of legal maneuvers. They included a court order that he die in the electric chair, at his request.

Those moves may have set back possible execution a few weeks at best. Court filings indicate Zagorski, who has spent 34 years on Tennessee’s death row, could get an execution date as early as Oct. 28.

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