Taking Orders for Your 'Last Meal' Now
It's customary for prisoners about to be executed to be given a special last meal where they can order anything they want. Reading Wikipedia the practice goes back centuries whereby giving a condemned man a last meal of his choice was a symbolic truce with the prisoner forgiving the judge, jury and executioner. A six year old might consider pizza and ice cream a fair deal for the electric chair but i doubt even the stupidest murderer would.
Except in Texas, where ONE asshole ruined it for all the other sociopaths to come and now there are no 'last meal' requests.:1orglaugh
"In September 2011, the state of Texas abolished all special last-meal requests after condemned prisoner Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a huge last meal and did not eat any of it, saying he was not hungry. His last-meal request was for two chicken-fried steaks with gravy and sliced onions; a triple-patty bacon cheeseburger; a cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, and jalapeņos; a bowl of fried okra with ketchup; one pound of barbecued meat with half a loaf of white bread; three fajitas; a meat-lover?s pizza (topped with pepperoni, ham, beef, bacon, and sausage); one pint of Blue Bell Ice Cream; a slab of peanut-butter fudge with crushed peanuts; and three root beers (normally non-alcoholic). The abolition followed a complaint by a Texas Senator, John Whitmire (Democrat, of Houston), who called the meal "inappropriate". The tradition of customized last meals is thought to have been established around 1924 in Texas. Since then, Texan death row inmates have been served the same meal as all other prisoners."
So what's your request for your last supper?
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