A double-murderer will be executed in the electric chair on Thursday evening after a last meal of pickled pig knuckles and tails.
Edmund Zagorski is set to die after a court late on Wednesday rejected a last-minute appeal to stop his execution.
The 63-year-old was sentenced to death in 1984 for murdering two men inside a drug den.
The 6th Circuit Court of Appeal said it found the legal challenge arguing the use of the electric chair was unconstitutional to be ‘meritless,’ The Tennessean reports.
They said he could not choose his method of execution and then also challenge it.
Zagorski chose the chair after his legal challenge to Tennessee’s midazolam-based lethal injection protocol failed.
He said he he would rather have 35 seconds in total of two 1,750 volt shocks over an excruciatingly painful death by the lethal injection that could take up to 18 minutes to kill him.
His attorneys say he believes death by electrocution will be quicker, but they maintain that both methods are unconstitutional.
Zagorski’s attorney Kelley Henry said she planned to appeal the court’s decision to the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, the Tennessean reports.
He asked for death by electrocution on October 8 after Tennessee’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s controversial lethal injection cocktail.
Experts have said it would cause an extremely painful death.