US murderer will eat a last meal of pickled PIG KNUCKLES and tails before being executed by electric chair tonight

A double murderer due to be executed in the electric chair has chosen bizarre menu items for his last meal.
Edmund Zagorski will dine on pickled pig knuckles and pigtails before the death sentence is carried out on Thursday.
His menu choices are unusual compared with the usual fare - including steak, pizza and fried chicken - that death row inmates order in their final hours.
Zagorski, 63, chose to be executed by electrocution because he believes it won't be as agonising as being killed by lethal injection.
His execution is due to be carried out at Tennessee's Riverbend maximum security prison at 7pm local time.
Zagorski, who has been on death row since 1984, will be the first US inmate executed by electrocution since 2013.
The execution was initially set for October 11, but it was delayed because the state was not ready for an electrocution.
When he was previously on death watch, Zagorski chose not to order a last meal, but fellow death row inmates pooled their resources to give him a pizza dinner, the Tennessean reported.
Death row inmates are usually given $20 (£15.50) to spend on a special meal before they are put to death.
Zagorski's legal team has asked the US Supreme Court to delay Thursday's execution, saying electrocution is cruel and unusual punishment and “utterly barbaric".
His lawyers claim Tennessee’s electric chair is “incompetently designed" and it will inflict burns and fail to immediately stop the prisoner's heart and brain function.
Zagorski was convicted of first-degree murder in the deaths of two men - John Dotson, 35, and Jimmy Porter, 32 - in 1983.
Then 28, he had convinced the pair he could supply them with 100lbs of cannabis and lured them into a wooded area in Tennessee's Robertson County, where he shot them and slit their throats.
They were carrying thousands of dollars in cash but were unaware that the drug deal was staged so Zagorski could kill them and steal the money.
Zagorski opted to die in the electric chair, his lawyers say, because it would only cause him "excruciating pain" for 15-30 seconds.
Lethal injection - Tennessee's primary method of execution - would force him to spend the final 10-18 minutes of his life in "utter terror and agony", his lawyers say.
There have been a number of botched lethal injections in US prisons in recent years.
A number of prisoners have complained of a burning sensation or pain before taking their final breaths.
Nine US states allow death row prisoners to opt for electrocution instead of lethal injection.
US murderer will eat a last meal of pickled PIG KNUCKLES and tails before being executed by electric chair tonight US murderer will eat a last meal of pickled PIG KNUCKLES and tails before being executed by electric chair tonight Reviewed by CUZZ BLUE on November 01, 2018 Rating: 5

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