May 11 2007
A Killer’s Last Wish
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For those that think a person who has taken the life of another has no compassion left, here is an example of a man that still had a kind heart.
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.
Despite the prison’s refusal to send out the pizzas the homeless and even some troubled teens got a pizza regardless. When word was released to the public about the inmates unusual last meal wish several members of the Nashville community donated pizzas to the Union Rescue Mission. Reports also came in that radio listeners in Minnesota sent pizzas to a center for troubled teens in response.
Now this was a last meal request that wouldn’t cost nearly as much as most requests and was something from the heart. Why couldn’t the prison officials have carried out this request?
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.
Sounds to me as though some people were just being cruel.
