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Hvor meget skal et menneske lide? Hvor mange gange skal man føres til henrettelseskammeret
for så at få udsat henrettelsen 1 time før den skulle gennemføres? ! gang? 2 gange? Eller 3 gange
som i Philip Workman` s tilfælde?
Læs om P.W. dan dig et billede og forestil dig den psykiske grusomhed, den tortur det må være,
at blive udsat for en så grusom behandling; vist, der skal holdes en høring nu, men intet er sikkert,
henrettelsen kan stadig finde sted i løbet af timer, dage eller uger!
Læs om de sidste dages forløb i P.W.` sag.
Ikke enestående, der vil til stadighed komme nye tilfælde til der ligner; kan vi tie stille?
Nej!
Og vi beder dig om at handle udfra det du læser og hvad din samvittighed byder dig at gøre.

Du kan kontakte P.W.` Kampagne Co-ordinater på flgd. email:

Fabian Gastellier-Wolfenden unitedwestand@hotmail.com

Reiner Stensgaard Goldau

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EMERGENCY, PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY
Friends,
The Tennessee Board of Pardons just voted 6-0 NOT to recommend clemency.
The defense's witnesses, such as ballistic expert Dr Cyril Wecht have been wonderful,
a friend just told me on the phone, but it is obvious that the decision not to recommend
clemency had been taken BEFORE the today's hearings.
Killing Philips means to kill an innocent man, only guilty of a robbery,. But it also means
killing Lt Oliver for the second time. This mockery of justice, this cover-up makes me sick.
Today the state of Tennesse just chose to move a step forward inside its involvment in
Oliver's death. I wouldn't like to be the cop who killed Oliver and will now become one of
Philip's executioners.
Maybe something will happen. I cannot say more. Let's say " a miracle".
I BEG YOU TO WRITE VERY FEW WORD TO GOVERNOR SUNDQUIST
FAX: (615) 532 9711
EMAIL: dsundquist@mail.state.tn.us
LETTERS: Governor Don Sundquist, State Capitol, Nashville, TN, 37243-0001
Thanks
Fabian (Philip Workman campaign coordinator for The International Bannister Foundation)

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:30 a.m. ET

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A condemned murderer received a stay of execution
from the Tennessee Supreme Court less than an hour before he was scheduled
to die by injection Friday.

Philip Workman's attorneys have spent the last year trying to get a court to
grant them a hearing on what they contend is new evidence. That fight
intensified in the past two days with several filings in five courts.

Workman was turned down Thursday in a Memphis state court all the way up to
the U.S. Supreme Court. But with 45 minutes to spare, the state Supreme
Court voted 3-2 in favor of a stay and sent the case back to the trial court
in Memphis for review.

The piece of evidence that apparently spared Workman's life is an X-ray of
the body of Memphis police Lt. Ronald Oliver, whom Workman was convicted of
murdering in 1981.

According to defense attorneys, the X-ray shows that the fatal bullet did
not fragment or expand. They contend that bullet could not have come from
Workman's gun because it was loaded with .45-caliber hollow-point slugs
designed to expand upon impact.

The X-ray was not used at Workman's original trial. Workman's current
attorneys did not know it existed until about a year ago, when the Shelby
County medical examiner mentioned it in a letter filed as part of an appeal
on another issue.

The state's highest court ordered the Shelby County trial court to hold a
hearing to decide whether the new evidence might have resulted in a
different verdict had it been presented at Workman's original trial. If the
court rules in Workman's favor, he would be entitled to a new trial.

Jefferson Dorsey, one of Workman's attorneys, said when he got the news of
the stay, he didn't believe it.

``We had pretty much resolved ourselves that the execution was going to
happen,'' Dorsey said. ``I actually called the Supreme Court to see if it
was true.''

The court's majority ruled that Workman's appeals have raised serious
questions regarding whether he fired the shot that killed Oliver.

``If he did not fire that shot, he is not guilty of the crime for which he
is scheduled to be put to death. ... No court in this state has actually
held a hearing to fully evaluate the strength of these claims,'' the
majority wrote.

It was the third time Workman has been within a few hours of execution,
although Friday was the closest he has come.

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Reiner Stensgaard Goldau
Ydbyvej 184
DK	7760	Hurup Thy
Denmark
+45-97-407628
goldau@adslhome.dk

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