Legal Opinion
Philip Workman v. Governor Phil Bredesen
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 7, 2007No. 07-5562PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSutton, J., joined by Siler, J.,
COLE, J. (pp. 921-931), delivered a separate dissenting opinion.
OPINION
SUTTON, Circuit Judge.
Philip Ray Workman is scheduled to be executed by the State of Tennessee on May 9, 2007, at 1:00 a.m., for the murder of Lieutenant Ronald Oliver. On May 4, 2007, Workman filed a motion for a temporary restraining order in federal district court, claiming that the State’s three-drug protocol for implementing the death penalty violates the Eighth (and Fourteenth) Amendment, and later that day the court granted the motion. Still later that same day, the Governor of Tennessee and the other defendants…
2Cases cited58 opinions
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3Cited by133 opinions
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