Today this post from the United Methodist Church was forwarded to me by a minister from Bristol, TN. In it, Methodist Bishop tells her story of finally getting to visit a death row inmate in California after nearly a year of trying to get cleared to visit death row. The UMC in 2006 marked the 50th anniversary of its resolution in opposition to capital punishment. In the wake of the travesty that was the Philip workman execution, it’s nice to remember that there are so many courageous people around the country that stand with us in this fight.

Read the post here.

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Today Curtis McCarty, who has spent more than 21 years in prison in Oklahoma, 16 of them on death row, was exonerated due to the work of the Innocence Project! Mr McCarty is the 201st prisoner freed in America due to DNA evidence and the 124th death row exoneree in the modern era! And of course that doesn’t even include inmates like Paul House, still waiting for his day in court! Read more here.

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While we in Tennessee are reeling from the sad events of the last few days, it’s important to remember that, across the country, the tide continues to turn against the death penalty. Last year, New Jersey successfully passed legislation to call a moratorium on executions and conduct a thorough study of the death penalty. The study commission eventually came back with a recommendation to abolish New Jersey’s death penalty and replace it with life without parole. Yesterday, the Judiciary Committee of the New Jersey Senate voted overwhelmingly to do just that! This is a major step in the fight to end NJ’s death penalty.

The NCADP Blog has the story here.

Now, certainly NJ is not Tennessee. They have only 10 people on death row and have not carried out an execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1982. However, it is still inspiring to see more and more public officials come to realize that the death penalty is absolutely unneccessary. Kudos to New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty!

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For his last meal on earth, Philip Workman requested that a vegetable pizza be delivered to Nashville’s homeless. The Department of Corrections refused saying they were too focused on the execution procedures. But hundreds of normal people have stepped in and hundreds of pizzas were served last night to Nashville’s homeless community in Philip Workman’s name. The Tennessean had good coverage of the story and News Channel 5 did a wonderful piece (you can see the video here).

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Reading this article this morning, I was struck again by the death penalty’s absolute rejection of the idea of redemption. By executing someone, we decide that nothing else they can ever do can matter. Nothing matters, “they” are “worthless” we’re told.

We actually brought this up at the vigil last night as well, but what has been inspiring is that three different groups of people have already set plans to deliver pizza to Nashville’s homeless today in Philip Workman’s name. The state may not believe that anything good can come from a “convicted murderer” and it may even refuse to let that person make a last gesture of kindness to the world, but we don’t believe that, and so thank you to all of you who refuse to let people be drawn in black and white. Your actions to honor life are an inspiration.

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At 1:38 am, Philip Workman was pronounced dead at Riverbend Correctional Facility in Nashville Tennessee. Nearly 100 vigilers stood silently with lighted candles awaiting the news for long minutes as there was no word from the prison until 1:45 – a full three quarters of an hour after the execution proceedings commenced. Below is TCASK’s statement in response to the execution:

Workman’s Execution Proves Tennessee’s Death Penalty is Broken

Nashville: When the state of Tennessee executed Philip Workman at 1:00am this morning, it did more than kill a man; it destroyed any argument that Tennessee’s death penalty system can possibly be trusted to hand down fair and equitable justice. In the end, the legal wrangling came down to the question of whether or not the Sixth Circuit Court had the authority to overturn a temporary restraining order put in place by a Federal District Court judge. The federal courts never actually considered evidence suggesting that Workman was factually innocent of the murder of Memphis Police Officer Ronald Oliver.

Workman was convicted of the 1981 shooting of Lt. Oliver during a robbery of a Wendy’s restaurant. While Workman has never denied the robbery, evidence brought to light after his initial conviction strongly indicates he did not fire the shot which killed Lt. Oliver. According to an opinion by Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Drowota, if Workman did not fire the shot which killed Lt. Oliver, than he was not guilty of capital murder.

Only one witness, Harold Davis, claimed to have actually seen Workman shoot Lt. Oliver. But since the initial trial, Davis, who had a history of calling in false tips to police in the hopes of a reward, has confessed that he perjured himself and actually was not present at the crime scene. He has passed a polygraph examination verifying this testimony. Worse yet, the only expert forensics testimony on the record, that of Dr. Cecil Wecht, concludes that “to a degree of medical certainty” the bullet that killed Ronald Oliver could not have come from Workman’s gun, a .45 caliber pistol. Wecht’s testimony is based both on the size of the exit wound and on the fact that the bullet exited the body at all. Both are inconsistent with the type of gun and ammunition that Workman was using. This suggests that Oliver was killed by friendly fire. Five of the jurors from Workman’s trial, the original prosecuting attorney, and Lt. Oliver’s daughter have all called for clemency for Workman.

All this evidence should be disturbing to anyone concerned with fairness and justice, regardless of their position on the death penalty. But what should be even more disturbing is the fact that Workman went to his death without a substantive consideration of these facts. Tennesseans deserve to know that their state is taking every necessary precaution to guarantee that it does not take life unjustly. How can we afford to believe this anymore when we execute a man without considering the strong evidence that he did not commit the crime for which he was executed.

Proponents of the death penalty continually maintain that it represents justice. But armed robbery is not a capital offense. Across the country more than 120 people have been exonerated from the death rows of 25 states. Paul House currently sits on Tennessee’s death row for a crime that the United State Supreme Court ruled that no reasonable juror would find him guilty of if presented with all the evidence. And recent investigation has suggested that several innocent men have been executed. With the execution of Philip Workman, Tennessee destroyed ant reasonable argument that its death penalty is administered fairly. It is far past time that we stop all executions until we can guarantee that fairness, equity, and true justice prevail.

Reverend Stacy Rector, Executive Director

Alex Wiesendanger, Associate Director

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The U.S. 6th Circuit has refused Workman’s petition for an en banc review of the three judge panel’s decision to overturn the temporary restraining order put in place by U.S. District Court Judge Todd Campbell in order to hold a hearing on Tennessee’s lethal injection procedure. The 6th Circuit did not offer any reason for its rejection, and chose to ignore the only expert medical testimony available (see previous post) – I guess the judges in the majority have M.D.s as well as J.D.s.

Workman’s next likely appeal will be to the U.S. Supreme Court for review of his claims regarding the lethal injection procedures.

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Since the 6th Circuit en banc has refused to consider the crucial evidence proving that Philip Workman is not guilty of the murder of Lt. Ronald Oliver, Workman’s attorneys have now applied for a stay of execution to the United States Supreme Court. Workman’s appeal focuses on a Rule 60 (b) motion (a complicated rule regarding whetehr an inmate can make a second habeas corpus plea to federal courts, in this case because new evidence, like Harold Davis’ recantation came to light).

• Harold Davis has admitted that he perjured himself in his initial testimony, and has passed a lie detector test verifying this claim.
• The only medical testimony on the record, that of Dr. Cecil Wecht, states that “to a degree of medical certainty” the bullet that killed Lt. Oliver could not have come from Workman’s gun.
• Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Drowota has stated that if Workman did not shoot Lt. Oliver, he is not guilty of a capital crime
• Five jurors from Workman’s trial have signed affidavits stating that, had they known that Davis was lying and that the deadly bullet did not come from Workman’s gun, they would never have sentenced him to death (it takes only one hold out on a jury to prevent a death sentence).
• The original prosecutor and Lt. Oliver’s daughter have called on the Governor to grant clemency to Philip Workman.

Now, I admit, I’ve never been to law school, but am I crazy or is this evidence not, at the very least, worth a hearing!?

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The 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is currently considering whether or not to overturn a panel decision to reinstate Philip Workman’s execution and ignore the serious risk posed by Tennessee’s recently revised lethal injection procedures. Our regular readers will remember that these procedures were developed by the department of Corrections, behind closed doors, and it is unclear what, if any, medical experts were consulted during their development. Well, finally a trained doctor of anesthesiology has examined Tennessee’s lethal injection protocols (the ones released less than a week ago that apparently Philip Workman is challenging too late). Dr. Mark Heath is a professor at Columbia University and has testified as an expert witness in a number of states regarding lethal injection. He has also done recent extensive study of the effects of lethal injection upon inmates. In other words, he’s an expert.

So check out the report Dr. Heath submitted on Tennessee’s new “constitutional” execution procedures.

Dr. Heath reports that there are serious problems throughout the process, from the drug doses (it looks like Tennessee has a typo in its protocols again), to the choice of method. Dr. Heath explains clearly that lethal injection can be done humanely, but that Tennessee’s three drug cocktail, and the complete lack of medical oversight, proper training of personnel, or clear directions, do not come close to meeting this standard.

Now this affidavit was presented in the district court and resulted in the temporary restraining order which a 6th Circuit panel overturned yesterday. The state has not produced any contradicting expert testimony, and yet, the panel has somehow completely ignored the opinion of one of the foremost experts in the field!

Perhaps the full 6th Circuit can act with a little more fairness.

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