posted May 8, 2007
Phillip Workman was executed by lethal injection early Wednesday morning after the U.S. Supreme Court on late Tuesday declined to intervene.
Workman, 53, was pronounced dead at a state prison in Nashville at 1:38 a.m.
He is the third person put to death in Tennessee since 1960.
The execution was put back on after the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday struck down a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in Nashville.
Workman had long been on death row for the 1981 slaying of a Memphis police officer.
The Sixth Circuit ruling came in a 2-to-1 decision.
Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton noted that Workman has come within days of being executed five times before and had never raised issues about the method of execution.
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