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Interesting and timely story:
http://www.ashlandcitytimes.com/apps/pb ... 3/70508076$1:
Workman's last meal: Pizza for the homeless person
By SHEILA WISSNER
Staff Writer
Philip Workman’s last meal will go to a homeless person.
The condemned cop killer requested a vegetarian pizza for his last meal and to give it to a homeless persons, said Dorinda Carter, spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Correction.
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_dis ... fter+Death$1:
Nashville, May 11: 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 on 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".
That's pretty crappy (on the part of the prison officials) to deny that request.
Yes, he was convicted and sentenced to die, but offering to send a pizza to a homeless shelter instead of having steak & lobster himself is at least a small redemption IMHO. On the other hand, kudos have ot go out to the Tennesseen's who bought 170 pizzas to fulfill his request.
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