Being perhaps the worst of the worst among criminals, these people don't often try to help others with one of their last requests.
Philip Ray Workman isn't your normal death row inmate. For his last meal, he requested that a vegetarian pizza be purchased and donated to a homeless person.
Unfortunately, the craziest part of this story isn't his generosity. Instead, the craziest part was that his request was denied!
While some inmates ask for meals costing hundreds of dollars, a $15 pizza was a no-go.
Workman was in jail for his robbery of a Wendy's for $1,170 and subsequently shooting two police officers, killing one of them.
During his trial he admitted to killing the officer, though he didn't mean to and only did because he was on cocaine, but it's actually not clear whether he did fire the killing shot or not.
Since receiving the death penalty, Workman has argued, with some scientific support, that Oliver could have been shot by another policeman during the shootout. Most in law enforcement and most courts have responded, "So what?"
