from the diaries of the tennessee dude...for the entirety of my tenure at the tennessee coalition to abolish state killing the state of tennessee sought to kill philip workman ... five times they set execution dates, once coming within 37 minutes of taking his life...and yet this case is infected with perjured testimony, police misconduct, withheld evidence, and a former medical examiner who was under indictment by federal authorities all making it clear that with more than reasonable doubt and a verdict and/or sentence renounced by five jurors that workman should, but has never, receive a new trial...
the video below outlines key issues that make it clear that lt. ronnie oliver was tragically shot by friendly fire while responding to the robbery of a wendy's restaurant in memphis, tn...a robbery workman has always acknowledged he committed...and that workman should not have been eligible for the death penalty according to tennessee law at the time of oliver's tragic death...the video also includes oliver's daughter's plea for reducing workman's death sentence to life in prison - an appropriate punishment for the crime he actually committed...
click on these links for detailed information on the case related issues of perjury, official coercion of an "eyewitness" who did not see the shooting to perjure himself, judicial prejudice making a mockery of due process, a state medical examiner clearly confusing his role as relates to science and the role of others in judicial review, and the upholding of a district court judge's order that stayed workman's last execution date in september 2004...
a full accounting of the case and action request from amnesty international is available here...
peace out <3
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