Talk:Philip Workman

message: I would like to challenge the neutrality of this article; it is slanted towards one side of the argument (Workman's), is cited using only one source (an anti-death penalty website), and is historically innacurate with regards to how many people HAVE been executed in Tennessee since 1960.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_executed_in_Tennessee
Proteas 18:23, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have corrected the error cited.  The source article was from early 2000, when the last execution was in 1960.  Feel free to cite evidence or witness testimony.  Evidence is not always balanced between two sides.  By your standards, someone should challenge the neutrality of the Ted Bundy article.  Justice Denied is not specifically anti-death penalty.  It features non-capital cases and does not to my knowledge have any articles on the wrongness of executing the guilty.  Even death penalty proponents can be against executing the innocent.  Danras 10:30, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I have also corrected the error cited, as 1976 must be the correct date. See my post below. User Talk: MenerbesMenerbes (talk) 19:17, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

text: According to the Tennessee Dept. of Corrections web site, it executed William Tines on Nov. 7, 1960 and did not execute anyone until it executed Robert Coe on Apr. 19, 2000.  Therefore 1960 is the correct date.  Many people were executed in the U.S. between 1960 and 2000, just not in Tennessee. --Danras (talk) 01:34, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: NEUTRALITY DISPUTE

message: Dispite wether or not an editor feels a certain way about an issue, the facts must be weighed and presented acurately and without bias.  If there is a story to be told on one side or the other of an issue, quotes and sources should be included.  Otherwise Wikipedia becomes merely an opportunity to stump speach. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.221.142.78 (talk) 20:38, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: NEUTRALITY DISPUTE

message: Most of the article, as it is now, reads like a laundry list of why the case against him is frivolous, and why he is a victim.  I have no idea whether or not he is, but the current wording is pretty slanted.  (In other words, the first of Proteas' April 1 complaints is still quite valid.)  dcandeto 05:07, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL, ummm, who is pro-murderer? Tim010987 (talk) 12:28, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: Quoting the article's very first sentences: "Philip Ray Workman was a death row inmate executed in Tennessee at 1:00 AM on May 9, 2007 (CST). He was pronounced dead at 1:38 AM (CST), after 38 minutes. [1] He was convicted in 1982 for the murder of a police officer following a botched robbery of a Wendy's restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, and sentenced to death by lethal injection."
For which reason does the time Workman took to die appear in the first sentence of his Wikipedia article? Is there no information concerning himself that is more important than the duration of his death? Please, someone change this to a less drastic introduction. 85.197.23.173 10:16, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: Yes: there was a mistake. 1976 is the correct date, not 1960. 1976, because it is the year where DP has been reinstated in the USA, after 4 years of "moratorium" due to Furman V Georgia. See: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/part-i-history-death-penalty. User Talk: MenerbesMenerbes (talk) 19:14, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  1976 - NOT 1960 for TN executions 

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

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