The Latest: Condemned man's last words: 'Let's rock'
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on planned execution of Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski (all times local):
7:50 p.m.
A Tennessee inmate's final words were "Let's rock" before he became the first man executed in the electric chair since 2007 in Tennessee.
A reporter who witnessed the execution says 63-year-old iunmate Edmund Zagorski mostly looked ahead but did look around the death chamber at a Nashville prison in the minutes before his death. When asked if he had any last words, he said, "Let's rock."
The eyewitness says he grimaced as a sponge was put over his head. The witnesss says the inmate raised up in his chair when each jolt of electricity went through him.