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No more last meal choices for death-row inmates
Chron.com ^ | 09-22-2011 | Peggy Fikac

Posted on 09/22/2011 1:46:21 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: boop

I never thought about what I would order as a last meal. Probably fried chicken, greens, and bananna pudding—comfort food I grew up with.


41 posted on 09/22/2011 2:10:14 PM PDT by Brookhaven
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To: LearsFool

“Have some mercy and grant a dying man’s wish. (Yes, within reason, of course.) It’s good for us all.”

Sure, if the criminal granted this last request to the victims he brutally murdered. Otherwise, screw ‘em.


42 posted on 09/22/2011 2:12:16 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Thank you, Bob!)
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To: Red Badger

Give them their last meal. They wont cost us taxpayer money any longer.


43 posted on 09/22/2011 2:13:41 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Verginius Rufus
Save money by standardizing. Each death row inmate gets a McDonald’s Happy Meal as his last meal.

Just as long as you don't include a toy. Don't want to get anyone in SF upset.

44 posted on 09/22/2011 2:14:23 PM PDT by Brookhaven
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To: Brookhaven
"...the cost of the bad publicity..."

Really? For a death row inmate?

How would this kind of "publicity" hurt the prison's bottom line?

Give them a bologna and cheese sandwich, a small bag of Lay's and a Coke with a cookie for desert.

Then encourage them to make their peace with God before "throwing the switch".

45 posted on 09/22/2011 2:14:31 PM PDT by SZonian (July 27, 2010. Life begins anew.)
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To: EDINVA
"wait till the UK gets wind of this ... if they were aghast at Perry’s heartless response to the death penalty, THIS will really get ‘em."

I know what to do. We can just serve them British food.

46 posted on 09/22/2011 2:14:37 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Thank you, Bob!)
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To: Red Badger

In China if a death row inmate refuses to eat his last meal he’s told just think of all the little children in America don’t have ANYTHING to eat.


47 posted on 09/22/2011 2:14:54 PM PDT by RetSignman (It's Fall...the "Goebbles Warmers" are packing their bags , migrating for their winter caves.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Mexico provides a pittance to the support of prisoners, but permits family or other concerned parties to improve prisoners’ lot. Even conjugal visits can be arranged. Mexico doesn’t (officially) do executions any more, so it’s not completely comparable. But they reflect their Roman Catholic Christian background in being relatively humane to their prisoners.


48 posted on 09/22/2011 2:15:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: dead
They should let them have a fiddle or banjo player too, for the last walk down the hall.

How about the tuba playing that tune that they used to play on cartoons when fat characters were walking?

49 posted on 09/22/2011 2:15:31 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: SIDENET

Just imagine what that must have done to his cholesterol.

I think the straw that broke the camel’s back on this one was the request for a cake topped with a wall cutting laser. It’s what I would go for.


50 posted on 09/22/2011 2:16:29 PM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Those who trade land for peace will end up with neither one.)
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To: Brookhaven

**SNORT!** Good one!


51 posted on 09/22/2011 2:16:38 PM PDT by SZonian (July 27, 2010. Life begins anew.)
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To: Red Badger

I think they should bring back gladiatorial sports using death rowers and lifers.


52 posted on 09/22/2011 2:17:07 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ari-freedom

Quite often, the family or families of the victims will have already sued the pants off the prisoner.


53 posted on 09/22/2011 2:17:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Brookhaven
Ending what is a several centuries old tradition that is followed in countries around the world hardly seems like a smart PR move.

John Whitmire is kind of an ass.

I'm surprised the TDCJ immediately caved in to his demand like that.

54 posted on 09/22/2011 2:18:32 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: RetSignman

LOL!


55 posted on 09/22/2011 2:18:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: Red Badger

Seems fair to me. I doubt victims are given a choice for their last meal.


56 posted on 09/22/2011 2:19:05 PM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: Allegra

“John Whitmire is kind of an ass.”

Good. We need more like him in charge and fewer hand-wringing sentimentalists.


57 posted on 09/22/2011 2:21:07 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Thank you, Bob!)
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To: mombonn

Usually the victims’ families recoup if possible, even including punitive damages (as if a fine on top of a death sentence means anything).


58 posted on 09/22/2011 2:21:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: ari-freedom

It would be well to look into how this became a nearly worldwide tradition. Christianity, in which you do not believe, has a lot to do with it.


59 posted on 09/22/2011 2:22:26 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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To: mombonn

“Seems fair to me. I doubt victims are given a choice for their last meal.”

usually the only choice is between lying face down in a pool of their own blood or someone else’s blood.


60 posted on 09/22/2011 2:23:14 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Thank you, Bob!)
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