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Killer orders pizza for homeless as last meal
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Posted on 05/09/2007 8:49:37 PM PDT by Tweets

Just hours before his execution by injection, a Tennessee death row prisoner who was convicted of killing a police officer ordered his final meal -- pizza for a homeless person.

Philip Workman, 53, requested a vegetarian pizza be delivered to a homeless person in Nashville, Workman's attorney confirmed.

Riverbend Maximum Security Institution refused, said Riverbend spokeswoman Dorinda Carter.

"We can get some special things for the inmate but the taxpayers don't really give us permission to donate to charity," Carter said.

According to the state's protocol, a last meal's cost cannot exceed $20.

Workman was executed early Wednesday.

Carter said Workman met with a spiritual adviser Tuesday evening and had also spoken in person with his brother.

Although Tennessee law gave him the option to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection, he refused to make that choice.

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1 posted on 05/09/2007 8:49:40 PM PDT by Tweets
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To: Tweets

Pizza Nazi’s : )


2 posted on 05/09/2007 8:52:20 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: Tweets

Although Tennessee law gave him the option to choose between the electric chair and lethal injection, he refused to make that choice.


Can a homeless person choose for him?


3 posted on 05/09/2007 8:53:42 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Tweets

Liberal to the last. Generous with other people’s money.


4 posted on 05/09/2007 8:55:11 PM PDT by magslinger (Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
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Not necessarily. A meal had already been assigned to him - he just chose to give it to someone else. I guess he apparently decided a meal didn't really make much sense to someone in his situation and thought it might be more helpful to a homeless person.

A liberal would have eaten the meal, and then asked for another.

5 posted on 05/09/2007 9:03:05 PM PDT by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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Kind of sad really. The homeless person would probably have complained about the meat.


6 posted on 05/09/2007 9:05:39 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Tweets
"What do you want on your Tombstone?"
7 posted on 05/09/2007 9:07:39 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: spetznaz
"... a meal didn't really make much sense to someone in his situation..."

That could well be.

OTOH, maybe he was a gourmet and knew that $20 would not be enough to finance the last meal of his choosing.

Personally, I would want to allow a condemned man $100 for his last meal, plus a nice cigar if he wanted one.

8 posted on 05/09/2007 9:10:49 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Tweets
Workman was convicted in 1982 of shooting and killing Memphis Police Lt. Ronald Oliver during a botched 1981 robbery of a Wendy's restaurant in Memphis,

The state - with a wicked sense of irony - should have brought in Wendy's as the last meal.

"Here ya go, Killer. Enjoy".

9 posted on 05/09/2007 9:12:40 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Warning. If your tagline is funny... I may steal it.)
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To: B-Chan

Hehe, I loved those commercial spots!


10 posted on 05/09/2007 9:13:42 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Responsibility2nd
"Here ya go, Killer. Enjoy".

    "Looks like I got the swag from Wendy's, afterall."


11 posted on 05/09/2007 9:15:29 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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To: Tweets

Ohhhhhhhhh! How nice!

Next.


12 posted on 05/09/2007 9:15:33 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: Tweets

This guy is a murderer. Yet CNN will do anything to portray him in a favorable light and score points against the death penalty. Disgusting. My prayers are with the family of his victim as they struggle with the pain of this attempt to humanize a heartless beast.


13 posted on 05/09/2007 9:17:34 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Tweets

CNN has some more complaining about lethal injections. Who knows, maybe there is a better way. But I do know this: No matter how you kill a human being, it’s going to be ugly. If we didn’t use any method of execution liberals declared unpleasant, we’d never execute anyone again. Not that they’d mind.


14 posted on 05/09/2007 9:19:18 PM PDT by Irish Rose (Will work for chocolate.)
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To: B-Chan

Damn, that’s funny!


15 posted on 05/09/2007 9:32:19 PM PDT by jdm
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To: Tweets

Tomorrow I have to take my youngest dog, Pepper, back to the vet because his butt is the size of a golf ball and squeezed shut like a morning glory at midnight.

As much as I appreciate Mr. Workman’s problems with society, the police department and the courts in general and I recognize John Donne’s paeans to tolling bells that roll through the long nights to come, I am afraid that come tomorrow I shall have to take on the same role for a dear friend of mine whose legs fall too many to count in this human-centered world, numbering four and eager to gain the last inch left to leap grandly for that arcing ball that every breath he breathes longs for.

Were I Bredesen, I would have commuted Workman and then abandoned him, for his kind know no forgiveness among men.

But my dog, oh, my silly, ball-playing dog. He doesn’t even know he’s sick, he has no clue what tomorrow will bring.

It’s huge, his butt, I mean - all red and swollen and squeezed tight like a miser’s purse and yet he drops the treasured old ratty ball at my feet and with his pleading eyes, cries “One more time.”

So, tomorrow until 2:30pm, it will be “One more time”, time and time again until the music stops.


16 posted on 05/09/2007 9:38:01 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Tweets
I see that he wanted a vegetarian pizza delivered to a homeless person.

What if the homeless person wanted pepperoni? These things are important.

17 posted on 05/09/2007 9:51:13 PM PDT by groover (Global warming really let us down on the '06 hurricane season.)
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To: Tweets
See how bad the Death Penalty is? We can't even feed the homeless
at the cost of a Human life. Oh the Horror!

/S

18 posted on 05/09/2007 9:53:35 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: Old Professer

“”All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated...As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all: but how much more me, who am brought so near the door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

One of my fvorites.


19 posted on 05/09/2007 9:54:07 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

add one A “: )


20 posted on 05/09/2007 9:55:30 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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