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Tennessee man's last words in electric chair: 'Let's rock'
Yahoo! ^ | 11/01/18 | Kimberlee Kruesi

Posted on 11/01/2018 6:49:54 PM PDT by Simon Green

Edited on 11/01/2018 8:17:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A Tennessee inmate's final words were "let's rock" moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007, put to death for the killings of two men during a drug deal-turned-robbery decades ago.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: deathpenalty; edmundzagorski; electricchair; execution; tennessee; zagorski; zap
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To: tophat9000

I was living in Florida when Bundy was executed. One of the radio talk shows was discussing recipes in the context of Bundy being “fried”. “ Cajun Bundy Gumbo” is one I recall.


61 posted on 11/01/2018 8:55:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("Do not discount anything in which Donald Trump is involved." - Rush Limbaugh)
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To: rdcbn

So how do you remember that? LOL


62 posted on 11/01/2018 9:02:31 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Republicans - GROW A PAIR)
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To: Chode

FILE - In this Oct. 13, 1999, file photo, Ricky Bell, the warden at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., gives a tour of the prison's execution chamber. If Tennessee electrocutes Zagorski, it will be in an electric chair built by a self-taught execution expert who is no longer welcome in the prison system. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File) (AP)

It is a chair.

63 posted on 11/02/2018 12:02:29 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
self-taught execution expert

Is there someplace that offers a course?

64 posted on 11/02/2018 12:05:52 AM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Simon Green

In other words, “Let’s do the Shrivel”.


65 posted on 11/02/2018 12:07:25 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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To: SpaceBar
”He became part of the resistance, like Hillary should too.”

Great double enrendre!

66 posted on 11/02/2018 2:54:01 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Disarming Liberals...Real Common Sense Gun Control!)
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To: SpaceBar
”He became part of the resistance, like Hillary should too.”

Great double entendre!

67 posted on 11/02/2018 2:54:41 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (Disarming Liberals...Real Common Sense Gun Control!)
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To: ameribbean expat

that works too


68 posted on 11/02/2018 4:02:36 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Robert DeLong

the perforated seat and tray under it for when their bladder lets go is a well thought out feature


69 posted on 11/02/2018 4:07:17 AM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: Publius

One of my favorite (older) Saturday Night Live skits—- T-Bone is the executioner: https://view.yahoo.com/show/saturday-night-live/clip/40038398/executioner-t-bone


70 posted on 11/02/2018 4:22:33 AM PDT by NCLaw441
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To: Simon Green

At least he did it like a man.


71 posted on 11/02/2018 4:33:36 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Simon Green

Convicted 1983, executed 2018.....worthless.
He’s had a long life, no one remembers the crime.
Almost 2 generations removed from the crime. Zero deterrent.


72 posted on 11/02/2018 5:07:29 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Simon Green

“He did not move once the procedure was over.”

Isn’t that the whole point?


73 posted on 11/02/2018 5:07:49 AM PDT by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: bgill

59 MORE TO GO. ALL IN VARIOUS STAGES OF APPEAL FROM STATE TO FEDERAL. NEXT 2 ARE 30+ YR RESIDENTS OF DEATH ROW.

David Keen should be the next, he left DNA proof in the Body of 8 yr old Ashley Nichole Read “Nikki” when he raped her, then strangled her with her own shoelaces, tied her body still alive in an old blanket, threw her off a boat dock to DROWN, then 3 days later led police to site and confessed, 2 juries found him guilty based on DNA worthy of the DP. No Appeals should have been necessary with DNA.


74 posted on 11/02/2018 5:30:07 AM PDT by GailA (Wife of RET. SCPO, GET OVER IT, DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!)
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To: bgill

Something in Tennessee finally used more electricity than Al Gore’s home.


75 posted on 11/02/2018 5:41:21 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: GailA

Texas has 224 death row inmates. They’re average length of stay is 16 years. Many have been on death row for 30 to over 40 years. Did they give their victims an extra 40 years to live?

https://apps.texastribune.org/death-row/


76 posted on 11/02/2018 5:50:12 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Steely Tom

Sounds like you know what it feels like? Have You ever been hit by a freight train? I can tell you I’d prefer the electric chair to two 7.62mm rounds as I know what they felt like. Imagine feeling like someone is continuously hitting your upper thigh hip area with a 16 lb. sledge hammer and you get no relief for 20-30 minutes when a medic finally gives you a morphine shot.


77 posted on 11/02/2018 5:54:04 AM PDT by Lumper20 (DC is AFGE Union Punks,Our Congress Critters have AFGE INS plus FERS.)
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To: SpaceBar

R = E/I

Ohm’s law of resistance


78 posted on 11/02/2018 5:57:48 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: bgill

I really don’t know much about this. Why does it take 15-30 years for those sentenced to death to face it?


79 posted on 11/02/2018 6:08:29 AM PDT by Tigercap
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To: Tigercap

Why?

Lawyers

The death penalty is lawyer welfare


80 posted on 11/02/2018 6:09:44 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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