An Overwhelming Response

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).

I find myself needing to comment on how much this story functions as an allegory for the death penalty in general. The state is so focused on carrying out an execution that it can’t feed one hungry person. Check out the state troopers in the picture below taken at the vigil for Workman last night. And this isn’t even all of them. The state can place all of these troopers there, but couldn’t have one intern take a pizza down town? What do you think had a more positive impact on Tennessee, Philip Workman being killed, or the hundreds of homeless and hungry individuals who were fed last night? Think of all the homeless people that could have been fed with the more than $10,000 that it took to carry out Workman’s execution last night. Think of how many homeless people could have been provided with housing, or the children that could have received better education, with the hundreds of thousands of dollars, probably millions of dollars, spent on the entire process of trying to kill Philip Workman? We need to see where our hearts (and wallets) are as a society, and realize that all the effort that the state puts in to exact vengeance is effort being taken away from caring for the people among us who need to be cared for.

Last night, the regular citizens of Tennessee stepped up and picked up where the state dropped the ball. And they did it in Philip Workman’s name. That is a beautiful story. Thank you to everyone who found a sign of hope coming out of a death.

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