A federal judge has granted Philip Workman a stay of execution. Workman is on death row after being convicted in 1982 of killing a Tennessee police officer. He has come within hours of death on more than one occasion. However, there are serious doubts about his guilt. An eyewitness has recanted and new evidence was discovered after his conviction. Still, the Tennessee Supreme Court voted to set Workman's execution (scheduled for September 22). The federal court entered a stay of execution until the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit hands down its ruling in the case of Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman.
Workman's execution stayed by federal judge
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