Tennessee prisoner makes ultimate decision in how he wants to die

drowning and burning alive.” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor said, “Capital prisoners …are entitled to humane deaths. The longer we stand ...

What Can Death Row Prisoners Request Before They Die?

... Tennessee and Utah, prisoners ... John Whitmire, who has long overseen the legislature's criminal justice committee, decided that one prisoner's ...

Why This Inmate Chose the Electric Chair Over Lethal Injection

Sutton, 58, was sentenced to death for his involvement in the killing of Carl Estep, another inmate in the prison where Mr. Sutton, who was 23 ...

Prison officials 'refusing' to use electric chair, death row inmate's ...

Prison officials 'refusing' to use electric chair, death row inmate's lawyer says ... Edmund George Zagorski, 63, has spent 34 years in prison — ...

'Let's rock': The last words of a double-murderer who chose the ...

Edmund Zagorski, a double-murderer convicted in 1984, became the first Tennessee inmate executed in the electric chair since 2007.

Ultimate choice: Tennessee inmates wrestle with how to die | wbir.com

20 for the 1985 murder of a fellow inmate. The 58-year-old Sutton was sentenced to death in 1986 for killing Carl Estep in prison. Sutton was ...

Ultimate choice: Tennessee inmates wrestle with how to die | AP News

Attorneys for Tennessee's death row inmates say their clients face a unique and unenviable choice: choosing between two questionable and ...

Edmund Zagorski has chosen the electric chair over lethal injection ...

An expert on executions predicted more death row inmates could follow the condemned man's lead ... The inmate said he preferred 35 seconds total ...

Nicholas Sutton has four murder convictions. His victims' families ...

The former corrections officer, now 61, was cornered by inmates as buildings were set ablaze and burned. Eden credits an inmate, named Nicholas ...

Ultimate choice: Tennessee inmates wrestle with how to die

However, the three-drug combination used by Tennessee and some other states has come under attack by attorneys for death row inmates who say it ...

Tennessee death row inmate wants electric chair as 'lesser of two ...

Condemned Tennessee inmate Edmund Zagorski wants to die in the electric chair, rather than lethal injection.

For Some Death Row Inmates, Kelley Henry Is the Last Line of ...

She'd just witnessed the execution of Ed Zagorski, a man beloved by his attorneys, his fellow death row prisoners and members of the prison ...

I Work With Men on Death Row. Their Stories Are Haunting

... decisions he'd made. Many of the men I know on death row work ... "I gave birth in prison. It meant heartbreak" · "My dad killed my mom ...

The Cruel Durability of Capital Punishment - Mother Jones

As pharmaceutical companies worldwide decline to sell their drugs to US prisons, dozens of inmates, represented by Nashville's Supervisory ...

Time on Death Row | Death Penalty Information Center

While on death row, those serving capital sentences are generally isolated from other prisoners, excluded from prison educational and employment programs, and ...

Governor appoints new correction commissioner in wake of lethal ...

In Arizona, Strada handled prison operations, inmate programs, public affairs, facilities management and financial services for four years. He ...

Man Who Saved Three Prison Guards Executed by Tennessee

During his time in prison, Mr. Sutton saved the lives of three correction staff. He protected a guard from five prisoners who were trying to ...

He spent months visiting death row inmates and witnessed ... - CNN

Journalist Steven Hale spent several years meeting with condemned prisoners at a maximum security prison in Tennessee and interviewing the ...

Death row inmate Don Johnson sang hymn as lethal drugs took effect

"No more dying there ..." Johnson, 68, was the fourth Tennessee inmate put to death since the state resumed executions in August. His ...

Death row inmate skips last meal and asks supporters to donate ...

A death row inmate in Tennessee decided to forgo his last meal and is hoping that others will get fed as a result. Don Johnson, who murdered ...