Posted on 09/22/2011 1:46:21 PM PDT by Red Badger
And to think. A bullet costing less than 25 cents, done the day of sentencing would have saved the state about 2 million.
A few hundred of those and you are talking about some real money.
LOL - I suggest you read up on Whitmire before so quickly engaging your delightful personality.
You Yankees can take him with the blessing of those of us who are conservative. ;-)
clearly he must comply with the new Michelle Obama guidelines for last meals
That would work! But only for fat prisoners.
Death Row Chili Cook off.
The question for tonight is beans or no beans...
Mixed feelings about this tradition. Yeah, it’s nice to give condemned prisoners whatever they would like for their last meal, but they are being put to death for a reason.. usually murder of one or more innocent people who didn’t get to decide about their last meal.
I think giving them a choice of one main dish, two or three side dishes, a dessert and a beverage as someone suggested is a way to maintain the tradition and reign in the ridiculousness.
“Why not hang or execute condemned people at noon on TV? This would make more sense than petty repudiation of a long standing Westernized practice.”
Why not make it a new reality show. Call it, “behind the curtain.” It gives us the last day of a POS’s life. He would have to sign a release stating that he is guilty and there would have to be elocution. He would get his last meal and afterwards walked to the death chamber.
Once strapped in and ready to go, the condemned would say his last piece, we last get to view a hand beginning the process of injecting the death juice. One last look at the POS and then the curtain comes down.
Half the sponsor fees will go to the victims families.
“Christianity, in which you do not believe, has a lot to do with it.”
What? To give the condemned a simple solemn last meal before they are executed or a lavish all you can eat buffet of all kinds of goodies? I am under the assumption that the latter is a relatively modern convention.
Cruel and unusual punishment!
Or they can have 1 from column A, 1 from column B and 1 from column C . . . .
You can be solidly confident that Christianity has little to do with any worldwide traditions.
While on the subject, can you name the one law commanded in every book of the Pentateuch?
Why should they be given a last meal, anyway?
Can’t they just live a few more hours without food? What’s the difference?
“While on the subject, can you name the one law commanded in every book of the Pentateuch?”
Thou shalt clean thy room and make thy bed every morning before breakfast. Thou shalt not fart at the table. Thou shalt drink all the milk in thine own glass. Thou shalt not bite thy brother, lest thou also be bitten. Thou shalt not run into the street naked.
That’s, like, five commandments “from the Bible.” That’s what I tell my four boys, anyway.
I think you’re trying to get at not killing other folks, but I recon if they know not to fart at the table or run naked in the streets, it’s a pretty good start.
I always thought they should do it during the Super Bowl halftime.
I think it gives the guards something to do, they get edgy waiting too.
IIRC, the condemned have a $20 limit on what they can order. At least in TX. So steaks and lobster are out. Unless the killer can provide an EBT card.
I’d always heard that most guys don’t eat their last meal, folks tend not to have much appetite at times like that, usually they share it with the block. So it’s not really surprising he ordered a bunch and then didn’t touch it.
What a bummer! If I were to ever end up on death row, my last meal would be an all you can eat buffet..........
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