Windel Workman was executed by the State of Oklahoma for the murder of two year old Amanda Holman
According to court documents Amanda Holman was rushed to the hospital with a variety of bruises on her body and the little girl was dead upon arrival. Windel Workman, the boyfriend of Amanda Holman’s mother, would tell police that the little girl had fallen. Needless to say the bruises and injuries to the child did not match a fall
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Windel Workman would be executed by lethal injection on August 26 2004
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n many ways, Amanda Holman was a typical child. She earned childhood’s normal bumps and bruises when she was learning to walk. She cried for her mother when they were apart. When the television commercials for the claymation California Raisins came on, she’d stop what she was doing, watching and dancing until the commercials were over. She had asthma and, no matter how small the problem, her mother would often run her to the emergency room for treatment. For example, there was the time a hamster bit her on the finger, something the emergency room doctor treated with an antibiotic cream and a Snoopy Band Aid.
She was a typical child, and made a child’s typical messes, like the handprints she put all over a large mirror in her home. Cleaning away the handprints was hard. By the time her mother got around to it, Amanda had been buried for weeks, dead of injuries suffered while she was being physically abused.
Her mother’s boyfriend was convicted of the murder and, Thursday night, is scheduled to die himself; the sixth Oklahoma death row inmate executed in 2004. But Windel Ray Workman has never admitted killing the 2-year-old girl. Instead, he and his attorneys say someone else was responsible for the murder.
“If Windel is executed, the state of Oklahoma will have put to death an innocent man,” said Norman attorney Steven M. Presson, who represented Workman on appeal. Presson said Workman often cared for Amanda Holman, but so did several others, including Rebecca Holman and Workman’s brother, Tracy Workman. He added that police “zeroed in” on Windel Workman as a suspect and never looked for others who could have been responsible for Amanda Holman’s injuries, which a state medical examiner likened to injuries suffered in a car wreck. The state Pardon and Parole Board didn’t believe the inmate’s claims, and denied clemency to him earlier this month.
Rebecca Holman said she doesn’t have time for Workman’s accusations. She said she’s ready for him to die, but mostly she wants to remember her daughter. “Amanda taught me that trees talk if you will only listen,” she said, adding that one day while the two of them were sitting on the porch, Amanda kept looking up into a tree. When Rebecca asked her daughter what she was looking at “She looked at me and smiled. She told me ‘the trees are talking.’
“I listened, and for the first time in my life, I heard the wind blowing through the leaves, causing the trees to talk. “When times get rough, I take time out to listen to the trees. I find it a comfort to know that she too may be sitting under a tree in Heaven, listening to the birds and trees she loved while she was here.”
For his last meal, Workman has requested a combination barbecue platter and an unsweetened 32-ounce iced tea.
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