Gov. Bill Haslam says he won’t intervene in next week’s scheduled lethal injection of a Tennessee inmate sentenced in 1984 in the slayings of two men during a drug deal.
In a statement Friday, Haslam said that while Edmund Zagorski has behaved in prison, that doesn’t undo how he “robbed and brutally murdered two men and attempted to kill a police officer while on the run.”
Zagorski is scheduled to die Thursday.
Attorneys for 32 death row inmates have asked Tennessee’s Supreme Court to declare the lethal injection protocol unconstitutional.
Haslam Won't Intervene in Execution
Oct 8, 2018 | 5:00 AM