The Latest: Vigils planned for Tennessee death row inmate
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on planned execution of Tennessee death row inmate Edmund Zagorski (all times local):4 p.m.
Vigils have been organized across Tennessee to oppose the state's plans to put an inmate to death in the electric chair.
Edmund Zagorski is scheduled to be executed at chair 7 p.m. CDT Thursday at a maximum-security prison in Nashville.
Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty have planned vigils at the West End United Methodist Church in Nashville, the Market Square stage in Knoxville, and the Memphis Theological Seminary. All the vigils were set to begin at 6:30 p.m. local time.
Zagorski was sentenced to death in 1984 for killing two men during a drug deal.