Tennessee inmate Edmund Zagorski has been placed on death watch in anticipation of his Thursday execution by electric chair.
According to the Tennessee Department of Correction, inmates on death watch are placed in a cell next to the execution chamber where they are under 24-hour surveillance.
All visits are non-contact until the final day before the execution, when the warden will decide whether Zagorski can have a contact visit.
Zagorski’s spiritual adviser, the Rev. Joe Ingle, says he will be with Zagorski every day but will not be a witness to his death.
Ingle says, “I’m not going to watch my friend get executed.”
Zagorski’s attorney announced on Monday that Zagorski has chosen to die by electrocution rather than lethal injection because he believes it will be quicker and less painful.