[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----TENNESSEE

[Rick Halperin]

October 11



TENNESSEE----10 day reprieve granted for Edmund Zagorski

Governor grants 10-day reprieve from execution for death row inmate Edmund 
Zagorski


Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam on Thursday granted death row inmate Edmund Zagorski 
a 10-day reprieve from execution.

“I am granting to Edmund Zagorski a reprieve of 10 days from execution of the 
sentence of death imposed upon by him by a jury in 1984 which was scheduled to 
be carried out later today," Haslam stated. "I take seriously the 
responsibility imposed upon the Tennessee Department of Correction and me by 
law, and given the federal court’s decision to honor Zagorski’s last-minute 
decision to choose electrocution as the method of execution, this brief 
reprieve will give all involved the time necessary to carry out the sentence in 
an orderly and careful manner."

(source: WATE news)