Texas drops special last meal for death row inmates

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The hefty last meal ordered but not eaten by an executed Texas inmate brought a complaint from a state senator and the end Thursday to the practice of special menus.

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[the_leander]

Given the relatively high cost of keeping prisoners, the relatively small number executed, you'd have at least thought that they could keep the last meal thing in place.

I was if I'm honest expecting it to be a republican senator who made the request.

I was shocked and, quite frankly appalled to find that it was a dem who did it.

From the article:

"It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege. One which the perpetrator did not provide to their victim," Whitmire wrote.

Yes fuckstick, difference is, you're supposed to be better than them.

Does Whitmire have form for this kind of crap?

 

[redrumloa]

I'd tend to agree with you until I read the article.

Lawrence Russell Brewer ordered two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet with other ingredients, a large bowl of fried okra with ketchup, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream and a pound of barbecue with a half-loaf of white bread.

The meal request also included a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts, a pizza and three root beers.

Brewer declined to eat the last meal Wednesday

This isn't a last meal request, it was one final act of a racist murdering scumbag to say "{bleep} you" to society. Keep the last meal, but make a reasonable limit. Someone ordering a steak with potato and not being able to eat it due to nerves I can accept. A dirtbag ordering a several hundred dollars worth of food just to say "{bleep} off" is wasteful.

 

[the_leander]

I'd tend to agree with you until I read the article.
Keep the last meal, but make a reasonable limit.

Agreed in principle. I personally think that limit would be better in the form of a limit on quantity - what could one person reasonably eat rather than the cost as such (given the cost of an execution these days, even the amount of food he ordered would only have made up a tiny percentage of said cost but I agree with you that it's wasteful). I wouldn't personally begrudge someone ordering Kobe Beef, for instance. I mean, {bleep} it, if you're going to check out, why not do so on a high note?

 

[Robert]

I was if I'm honest expecting it to be a republican senator who made the request.

I was shocked and, quite frankly appalled to find that it was a dem who did it.

Seriously?

Two cheeks of the same erse as far as I'm concerned.

 

[the_leander]

Seriously?

To an extent, very much so.

Two cheeks of the same erse as far as I'm concerned.

There is that, yes.