23 minutes before Phil Workman was scheduled to die...
23 minutes before Phil Workman was scheduled to die at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued a stay of execution, sending his case back to a Memphis court for a hearing on "newly discovered evidence
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23 minutes before Phil Workman was scheduled to die at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued a stay of execution, sending his case back to a Memphis court for a hearing on "newly discovered evidence." Workman had been slated to die at 1 a.m. this morning by lethal injection for the 1981 shooting death of a Memphis police officer during the robbery of a Wendy's fast-food restaurant.
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- (Sources: The Tennessean, 30/03/2001)
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