Death row inmate asks for electric chair execution instead of lethal injection

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A death row inmate due to be executed in days has asked to die by electric chair rather than face a controversial lethal injection. Edmund Zagorski made the request hours before the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled the state’s three-drug injection protocol was legal, paving the way for his execution on Thursday. “10-18 minutes of drowning, suffocation, and chemical burning is unspeakable.” In Tennessee, death row inmates whose offences were committed before 1999 can opt to be executed either by lethal injection or electric chair. Alongside the request to die by electrocution, Ms Henry also said she would call for a stay of execution for her client so an appeal against the Supreme Court’s ruling could be lodged.