Even as we feel the travesty of justice currently being carried out in Cincinnati by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, today’s Tennessean carries a call to all of us from the pioneer of the civil rights movement, Reverend James Lawson. Lawson writes:

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With a cursory note (less than one page!) the 6th Circuit has denied an en banc hearing for Philip Workman regardless of the clear and convincing case presented by his attorneys. In fact, in their response, the 6th Circuit did not even give a reason for refusing to look at crucial evidence as a man faces his death! They merely said that less than a majority of the sitting judges present favored the motion! As far as I can tell this response was to the appeal of Workman’s 60(b) motion, requesting that the courts examine the forensics evidence pointing to his innocence, and we are still awaiting a reply from the 6th Circuit regarding his lethal injection claims. The next step would be to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Justice indeed!

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Attorneys for Philip Workman have filed an appeal of the 6th Circuit panel’s decision to overturn the temporary restraining order placed on the state by U.S. District Court Judge Todd Campbell. In the brief, Workman’s attorneys, in my non-legal mind, eviscerate the majority opinion and the state’s claims with clear and concise logic. The basic points are:

1. A Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) is not appealable unless there will be immediate and irreparable harm caused by its remaining in place; executing Philip Workman less than two weeks later than originally planned certainly does not qualify
2. There is clear and provocative scientific evidence that the lethal injection procedures now being utilized by Tennessee can cause exceptional pain and constitute torture to an executed inmate.
3. Philip Workman cannot possibly have filed his petition late when he challenged the new protocols within 2 days of their release!

You can read the entire brief here and you can also read the motion filed by Workman’s attorneys for a stay of execution.

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For the fourth time, Philip Workman finds himself on death watch this morning, despite evidence that he did not shoot Memphis Police Lieutenant Ronald Oliver. Yesterday afternoon, a three judge panel on the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a ten day restraining order put in place by U.S. District Court judge Todd Campbell to allow for a hearing on Tennessee’s “new” lethal injection procedures. Workman had maintained that the three drug protocol (which utilizes a chemical banned for use in euthanizing animals) could constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Given the horrendous and torturous botched executions seen in other states using nearly identical protocols, Workman’s claim would seem to have merit, but the panel disagreed and overturned the restraining order, clearing the way for Workman to be executed in just over 28 hours. The majority opinion claimed that Workman might simply be trying to delay his execution and should have brought these concerns up sooner. All this despite the fact that the state only released the new protocol a week ago! Talk about trying to have it both ways!

In a dissenting opinion, Judge Guy Cole Jr. makes a number of terrific points, the most shocking of which, to me, is that a temporary restraining order (like the one that was in place here) is by law not appealable. It is designed merely to maintain the status quo for a very short time (no more than 10 days) to allow a court to examine an issue and decide if an injunction (which would be appealable) is needed. Apparently, none of this made any difference to the two judges in the majority. Moreover, the Judge Cole points out that there can be no “irreparable harm” caused to the state by temporarily delaying the execution of Phillip Workman, and such harm certainly could not overcome Workman’s eight amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment. Other courts across the country have recognized that the three drug cocktail (administered by unqualified prison personnel) can result in extreme pain and suffering and Judge Cole calls on the 6th Circuit to do the same.

This morning, Philip Workman will be appealing his Rule 60(b) motion (more on this later) as well as the ruling of the panel on lethal injection, to an en banc hearing of the entire 6th Circuit, rather than just a three judge panel. TCASK will continue to keep abreast of these developments and whatever the outcome, the latest news will be immediately posted here throughout the day. If the situation does not change, if our state does not see the light, if Philip Workman is still scheduled for execution this evening, we will gather at 7:30 at Holy Name Catholic Church (521 Woodland) for a prayer service for Philip Workman and all victims of violence and then proceed to Riverbend Correctional Facility to hold a candlelight vigil beginning at 9:00 pm.

So take time today for two things:

1) Call (615.741.2001) or Email Governor Bredesen and tell him: Philip Workman did not fire the shot that killed Lt. Oliver. He should not be executed for armed robbery!

2) Join us to bear witness against an immoral and unjust execution tonight!

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Once again, Tennessean columnist Dwight Lewis has issued a clear, thoughtful, and powerful call to Governor Bredesen to not support a broken death penalty system. I meant to get this piece up earlier, but here it is for your reading pleasure. I hope that many people of good faith respond to this call.

And Shane Truett has a moving piece responding to Verna Wyatt’s factually inaccurate piece in The Tennessean talking about the problems in the death penalty system and his own belief, as a murder victim’s brother, that the death penalty does not bring closure to families that lose a loved one.

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At this moment, a temporary restraining order is in place, preventing the state of Tennessee from executing Philip Workman until May 14th, when a hearing regarding Workman’s challenge to Tennessee’s “new and cleaned up” execution protocols has been scheduled. As the day progresses, we hope to be able to hear whether or not the state will challenge this order either in district court or appeal it to the U.S. 6th Circuit. What is for certain is that there is no guarantee that an execution will not occur Wednesday morning at 1:00 am.

At the same time, the United States 6th Circuit court panel has rejected Workman’s request for relief based on the fact that he was convicted on perjured testimony and faulty ballistics evidence! I’m not going to go into all the issues again here (you can see previous posts or the TCASK case summary) but you have to question any system where the fact that the key prosecution witness, by his own admission, lied about what he saw and where medical evidence demonstrates that the bullet that killed Lt. Oliver did not come from Workman’s gun do not count as reasonable grounds to challenge a death sentence! Over and over again, we see that procedure, not truth or real justice, is the issue in the death penalty!

Still, resistance to the Workman execution continues across the state. In Memphis last night a prayer service was held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. The Memphis TCASK Chapter will gather there again this evening and tomorrow. In Jackson and Knoxville, prayer vigils are scheduled for tomorrow night. In Nashville tonight, at 5:00 there will be a public event at the Belcourt Theater to deconstruct the “new” execution protocols! And this weekend, and again tonight, Nashvillians gathered to hold signs and raise awareness and opposition to an unjust planned execution. So stay tuned and stay active! Because we are not going to let the state perpetrate such an injustice unopposed!

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Yesterday evening Philip Workman received a temporary reprieve from U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell. Campbell scheduled a hearing on the question of the constitutionality of the lethal injection protocol. Believe it or not, Campbell thought that it might be unfair to give attorneys less than a week to review new execution protocols.

We do not know yet if this stay will hold, so all plans, including sign holdings today and Monday, are still on.

The Tennessean has the full story here.

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Check out CNN and read about Philip Workman’s case on the front page of the CNN web site. National attention is now focused on Tennessee as our state prepares to execute a man who was convicted and sentenced based on perjured testimony and faulty ballistics evidence. Never mind that the May 9th execution date marks Workman’s 6th execution date and will be his fourth trip to death watch. Workman already suffers from post traumatic stress disorder from his prior death watch experiences. Someone remind me again how such treatment is not “cruel and unusual?”

TCASK will have a sign holding event today at 4:00 p.m. at the TCASK office, 508 Main Street, Nashville. Sign holding is one more way to get the word out to Tennesseans that a grave injustice is soon to be carried out in our name if the Governor or the courts don’t intervene. If you can’t make the sign holding event, call the Governor at 741-2001 and ask that he grant clemency to Philip Workman.

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Reading the news this morning, I discovered that since 1988 the first Thursday in May has been designated as the National Day of Prayer. Festivities will be occurring in downtown Nashville today to mark the occasion. I am grateful that we live in a nation where people are free to assemble and to pray publicly. For people of faith, prayer is an essential part of expressing our interconnectedness to God as well as to those for whom we pray.

However, I must admit that we often find it easier to pray for one another with our words than to act on behalf of one another with our lives. Even so, both prayer and action are important to lives of faith; and lately, I have been engaged in a great deal of both.

I pray for the Governor, even in my grief and anger over his decision not to extend the moratorium, because I believe that it is my call as a Christian to pray for him and to pray for his intervention in the Philip Workman case. I pray for the family and friends of Lt. Ronald Oliver who continue to suffer as the death penalty system drags up their pain each and every time an execution date is set. I pray for Philip Workman, his family, and friends, who for the sixth time, endure the agony, the torture, of facing another execution date, another death watch, another last meal. I pray for all those sitting on death row in Tennessee who, in a few days, will hear the correctional officers come to take Philip from his cell again for what may be the last time. I pray for all those participating in the execution who work for the Department of Corrections, who do the dirty job on our behalf. I pray all of us, citizens of Tennessee, who participate in the murder of another human being every time there is an execution.

During this National Day of Prayer celebration going on downtown today, I wonder if anyone will pray for Philip Workman, for the Olivers, for our society which seems to put much more faith in violence than in God and in Jesus’ way of nonviolence. I hope that we will all keep praying and acting in ways that demonstrate the powers of love, mercy, and forgiveness that are central to our faith, even as we face the difficult days ahead in Tennessee. And so, I will keep praying and acting for an end to the death penalty in Tennessee. I hope you will do the same.

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TCASK is so grateful to Belmont University, particularly to Dr. Todd Lake, for bringing Sister Helen Prejean to Nashville for a presentation at Belmont on Monday. She received a standing ovation from those in attendance after sharing her story and reflecting upon the power of the arts to move people to new places and new understandings regarding difficult issues such as the death penalty. Belmont was quite gracious in sharing Sister Helen with TCASK as she participated in our press conference joining clergy from across the state to urge the Governor to extend the moratorium.

After a lunch in her honor at Belmont, Alex and I whisked Sister Helen away to prepare for our press conference at 3:30. As we were racing around the office attending to last minute details, Sister Helen got a little shut eye on our donated office sofa. We decided to capture the moment by taking her picture (of course, we asked first!) It is not everyday that Sister Helen takes a nap in one’s office.

We are deeply grateful to Sister Helen for her witness to the love and mercy of God through her tireless efforts to abolish the death penalty in this country. Sister, you can crash on our sofa anytime!

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