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Further update: Workman was executed last night around 1:38 am. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Update: Workman’s public defenders are working hard on his behalf. After the denial of cert. by SCOTUS, it seems that they have now filed a Motion for Stay with Tennessee’s Supreme Court. There’s no timestamp, so I can’t tell for sure whether I’m linking to something hours old, but it does reference the fact that three Supreme Court justices would have granted cert, so I think it is fairly recent.

I haven’t posted about this TN lethal injection challenge, but I have been following it. Minutes ago, SCOTUS denied [pdf] the petition for certiorari. Justices Stevens, Souter and Ginsburg would have granted cert. I’m disappointed, but not surprised.

As CDW notes, Workman’s attorneys did a fantastic job. Please take the time to read the petition here [pdf]. All the pleadings can be found here.

Edit: I had the wrong link for the SCOTUS denial. Now updated.

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