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Phillip Workman

died May 9, 2007 · Shelby County, Tennessee

Phillip Workman was executed by lethal injection by the State of Tennessee on May 9, 2007. A 2022 WJHL report says he asked for a vegetarian pizza to be bought and donated to a homeless person as his last meal, and that prison officials refused the request. The execution was carried out under the state's death sentence against him.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: State of Tennessee (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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