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Execution back on after being put on hold because it might hurt.
I really find this hard to stomach. What about the cop he killed and outlived for 26 years? What about that officer's pain?
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By Ashley Fantz
(CNN)
(CNN) -- Lawyers for convicted cop killer Philip Workman and Tennessee prosecutors were locked in a federal court battle Monday over Workman's execution, scheduled for early Wednesday.
But as of 5:15 p.m. ET, Workman's execution was to proceed.
State prosecutors appealed and won a reversal of a federal judge's ruling Friday that temporarily meant the execution would be stayed.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Todd Campbell ruled Tennessee's revised execution protocol could result in cruel and unusual punishment, said Workman's lawyer, Kelley Henry.
But the state's victorious appeal Wednesday means Workman is headed to "Death Watch" sometime today, said Riverbend Prison spokeswoman Dorinda Carter.
Death Watch is a period before an execution in which a prisoner is cordoned off in an isolated cell, given his final meal and instructed to leave his possessions to his family or friends.
Wednesday's execution date is Workman's seventh. Workman has gone through the Death Watch process three times since 2000. Each time, courts stepped in to spare his life. 'Deficiencies' in lethal injection procedures
Saying there were "deficiencies" in Tennessee's lethal injection instruction manual, Gov. Phil Bredesen rescinded it in February and gave the state's commissioner of correction 90 days to write a new one.
On April 30, the state issued a new set of lethal injection procedures, but the "cocktail" of lethal drugs remained unchanged.
A study published in April by the Public Library of Science -- a nonprofit organization of scientists and doctors -- found the three-drug lethal injection protocol probably left prisoners subject to immense pain before they died. (Read about the controversy over lethal injection)
Workman, 53, is on death row at Nashville's Riverbend prison after being convicted in the 1981 shooting death of Memphis Police Lt. Ronald Oliver during the robbery of a Wendy's restaurant. (Read about Workman's case)
Workman, in an interview with CNN last month, said he feared what lethal injection might do.
"It almost makes me want to choose the electric chair," Workman said. "They are saying in this report that a lot [of prisoners] have suffered, they wouldn't be able to speak. You can't move to say anything. You're frozen."
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__________________ "I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy".
"It almost makes me want to choose the electric chair," Workman said. "They are saying in this report that a lot [of prisoners] have suffered, they wouldn't be able to speak. You can't move to say anything. You're frozen."
I've never understood why you can't just OD someone on morphine, wanting the guy to suffer is a petty reason to keep him alive longer.
If you're going to kill him kill him.
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I've never understood why you can't just OD someone on morphine, wanting the guy to suffer is a petty reason to keep him alive longer.
If you're going to kill him kill him.
I can see your point, but it also seems a bit odd that they are going to kill the guy but they don't want it to hurt. If you are going to slip him from the mortal coil do you really care if it hurts?
Or, maybe they are executed in the same manner that they murdered someone else....That would be crazy...
How very Old Testament of you. Or Islamic...I'm not sure.
I highly doubt the people who commit cold blooded murders every consider the method they're doing it or the consequences. To make it hurt would be a vengeful act only if it didn't have to hurt. The "no longer exists" probably weighs more than the method of getting there.
I think it should be the cheapest way all things being equal.
How very Old Testament of you. Or Islamic...I'm not sure.
I highly doubt the people who commit cold blooded murders every consider the method they're doing it or the consequences. To make it hurt would be a vengeful act only if it didn't have to hurt. The "no longer exists" probably weighs more than the method of getting there.
I think it should be the cheapest way all things being equal.
Bullets are only about .10 cents.
__________________ "I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy".
How very Old Testament of you. Or Islamic...I'm not sure.
I highly doubt the people who commit cold blooded murders every consider the method they're doing it or the consequences. To make it hurt would be a vengeful act only if it didn't have to hurt. The "no longer exists" probably weighs more than the method of getting there.
I think it should be the cheapest way all things being equal.
Well stated.
How bout we're better than you are, we're going to kill you but at least not painfully.... of course you'll still be dead and if you happen to rot in hell well that's between you and God, have a nice day.... well what's left of it for you.. he he he he.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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