Texas draws the line on death row last meals

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Well, it was always going to happen eventually...

See the bastard went out in style though with one last 'feck you' to the world.

I heard this happens quite a bit although the prisoner usually doesn't request that much food. Texas executes people constantly so it obviously got old.

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Last edited by Willard on 01 Oct 2011, 9:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Not mentioned there but he also requested three root beers.

Sounds good to me. They're criminals on death row, not millionaires with terminal illnesses.

Did they offer the person(s) they murdered a last meal? A chance to say goodbye to their loved ones? Doubtful. Screw the last meal

More inane stupidity. I'm sure the debt of Texas will be wiped out with this move.

That reminds me, we have a book in my house of hundreds of death row prisoners in Texas and the last meals they chose to have. A lot of them had steak and Dr Pepper

Practical benefit == very small. Political benefit gained by the public's outrage == priceless.

Texans are a-holes. Okay not all of them, but there's such a mean streak in the culture of that state. Did anyone see the Rick Perry thing where people were actually CHEERING at the mention of 200 executions? Even if you are for the death penalty, that is just messed up. I mean at the very least, it should be a somber thing.

I lived in Texas for thirteen years, and got to know the general mentality of the people quite well. Yes, they're generally friendly, but they have a very no-nonsense attitude about crime and punishment. You commit a crime, you better be ready for what's coming to you if you're caught and convicted.

Plus, it's far more expensive to house an inmate for life than it is to give them the death penalty; two possible sentences for the same severity of the crime, usually. Life-long inmates also live quite comfortably, all things considered. State-funded medical care and meals and all that. Would you really want your tax dollars used feed and house a murderer for the rest of their life in conditions far better than most low-income demographics will ever know?

Having worked in a prison (not in Texas) for several years, I can vouch that Zokk is correct. They also don't have to pay taxes, they get a small salary from the state, they don't pay utility bills (the hot water runs here CONSTANTLY--they just turn it on & leave it), unless they're assigned to work in laundry they don't have to wash their own clothes, they don't really have to clean up, if they destroy something someone else fixes it. Most of all, many of them have a sense of entitlement--the world "owes" them everything & they are doing us all favor by gracing us with their presence. Why should they get treated any different, just because they are FINALLY going to have to face the repercussions of their own actions? You may rest assured that their victims did not get that kind of mollycoddling!! Let 'em eat state food, just like everyone else--they can go to their "reward" with indigestion! Serves 'em right...

Yes, Texans seem friendly, but unforgiving.

I see things differently. Most violent criminals are sociopaths. That is a mental illness. Some people don't consider personality disorders mental illness, but I do. I think we should keep them in jail and feed them because it's the right thing to do. Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather spend the money curing cancer, or saving old growth forest. But what we are doing not killing them, is living up to our standard of human rights. Creating a more compassionate civilization, instead of lionizing revenge and retribution.

The money we use to house murderers is just a drop in the bucket compared to say, our military spending anyway. There's better ways of saving taxpayer money than killing people.

I was a corrections officer in Texas. I have no feelings for someone that drags a person behind a truck leaving body parts in the trail just because he had a color they didn't like. I have no feelings for anyone who rapes a baby. You think we should feel bad because Texas executes these kind of animals? They sure don't deserve ANY kind of privileges especially a good last meal. You do a crime in Texas your going to pay.

Inmates on death row are there for a reason and should be treated as such. They deserve no special last meal treatment. I doubt their victims were extended the same courtesy so they shouldn't be either.

I've heard that a lot of prisoners don't eat their last meal, not because they're trying to stick it to the man but because impending death tends to spoil one's appetite.