Tennessee inmate asks court to stop Thursday electrocution

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski is asking a federal judge to issue an emergency order putting a halt to his Thursday execution.
Zagorski on Friday filed a complaint in the Nashville court of U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger arguing that it is unconstitutional to force him to choose between electrocution and lethal injection. Trauger dismissed that claim, saying the courts had already ruled on the issue.
On Sunday, Zagorski’s lawyers asked the judge