News Update 5.10.07
North Carolina
Nothing to report. Don’t forget to contact your legislators!
Elsewhere
Florida puts dress on pig, prepares to execute inmates again. Execution team members will get more training, but the lethal cocktail won’t change. Executions could resume in as little as 14 days.
In Iraq, a young woman on death row says she was tortured into confessing to a murder she didn’t commit. Wednesday is gallows day, and because the condemned are not told of their executions in advance, she wonders each week if it will be her last.
In lieu of the traditional last meal, Philip Workman asked that a pizza be delivered to a homeless person in the vicinity of the facility where he was being held. Tennessee refused, saying that they don’t donate to charity. The citizens of Nashville took it upon themselves to grant Workman’s selfless last wish, delivering hundreds of pies to area homeless shelters.
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