Tennessee Resumes Executions, Prepares to Kill Innocent Man

What did Governor Bredesen learn during the 90-day moratorium on executions in Tennessee? Not much. The state has just tweaked its guidelines for lethal injection and will presumably return to killing next week when Philip Workman is scheduled to die. While I oppose all state killings on religious grounds, Workman's case is particularly frustrating because he is most likely not actually guilty. This brief documentary by Sharon Cobb lays out the evidence for Workman's innocence and takes a first-hand look at the state's cold, stubborn, and sometimes irrational clemency board:


The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty recently issued this report, which profiles four cases in Texas and Missouri in which persons who were executed were almost certainly innocent.