He wants to feast on a rib eye steak, a baked potato with sour cream, asparagus, dinner rolls with butter, French onion soup, strawberries, pistachio ice cream and apple juice.
His victim got no such request.
The last meal has a long tradition behind it. Symbolically it means that the condemned is accepting the hospitality of the state and subsequently his/her fate. It's the state's way of saying "we have no choice but to let justice run its course, but no hard feelings. It's nothing personal."
That being said, I definitely get your meaning.