Mike Stanfill -Illustrator - Animator -Web Designer - Geek
Flash animation...it's not just for breakfast any more.
"The Last Request"
The American capital punishment system is unfair, it's
racially biased, and it's a lousy way to seek justice.
Flash Animation
Your eyelids are getting heavy. You're getting very sleepy. When I snap my fingers you'll awake and think you're a chicken.

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For those curious about why I animated this, please click here.
Listen to NPR's description of the execution process by clicking here.



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Men sentenced to death and later exonerated:
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
Shujaa Graham
Wilbert Lee
Anibal Jarramillo
Anthony Ray Peek
Larry Troy
Robert Cox
Sonia Jacobs
Joseph Spaziano
Joaquin Martinez
John Robert Ballard

What's 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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