BREAKING: #SCOTUS will not stop Tennessee from using the electric chair to execute Edmund Zagorski. Justice Sotomayor notes her dissent, and writes. 
Last month, when Zagorski previously faced execution, @nidhisubs and @csmcdaniel published this report: "Here’s The Horrifying History Of The Electric Chair That Might Soon Kill An Inmate In Tennessee" buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhis…
As Sotomayor notes, this case came to the court in an unusual posture — the result of the court's way of handling challenges to the method of execution in recent years — and was not a challenge to the constitutionality of the electric chair itself. Here were the questions:
Here's the full docket for that challenge: supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?fi…
Here was the other petition — a complex one relating to mitigation jury instructions during sentencing, ineffective assistance of counsel claims, and federal habeas limitations — for which there were no noted dissents. supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?fi…
Only three executions in the past decade have been by electrocution — all in Virginia and none in the past 5 years. The last execution by electrocution was Robert Gleason in January 2013.
Edmund Zagorski has been executed by Tennessee.
Reporters who witnessed the execution — currently from the AP — are giving a news conference to other reporters now. NOTE: The reporters are being very explicit. tennessean.com/story/news/201…
