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Tennessee’s lethal injection execution

As detailed in this AP report and this local article, in Tennessee Phillip Workman “was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday after state and federal courts rejected his attorneys’ pleas for more time to examine the state’s newly revised execution protocols.”   According to the AP report, he “showed no obvious signs of discomfort or pain” during the execution process. Coincidentally, “Workman was executed nearly 25 years to the day of his conviction in the 1981 shooting death of Memphis police Lt. Ronald Oliver.”

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