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Ryan
Matthew John Robert Ballard Freddie Pitts Anthony Brown Juan Ramos William Jent James Richardson Andrew Golden Joseph Nahume Green Juan Roberto Melendez |
Darby
Tillis David Keaton Delbert Tibbs Joseph Green Brown Willie Brown Earnest Miller Bradley P. Scott Robert Hayes Frank Lee Smith Rudolph Holton |
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Graham Wilbert Lee Anibal Jarramillo Anthony Ray Peek Larry Troy Robert Cox Sonia Jacobs Joseph Spaziano Joaquin Martinez John Robert Ballard |
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the point of the last request? Thu May 10, 2007 NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A convicted murderer put to death in Tennessee this week got his last meal wish after he died. Philip Workman had turned down the usual final meal of his choice traditionally offered the condemned, asking instead that a vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person. Prison officials refused to send out a pizza and Workman died Wednesday by lethal injection. But news accounts of his request touched a nerve with the public. Nashville's Union Rescue Mission received 170 pizzas. Media reports said listeners to a radio station in Minnesota also ordered pizzas sent to another organization for troubled youngsters. Dorinda Carter, spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Correction, said, "Taxes are to be spent on specific things for the care of the inmates." But she acknowledged there was no regulation against carrying out Workman's request. An official at the mission said "the pizzas were enjoyed greatly by our clientele." |
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