Posted on 09/22/2011 1:46:21 PM PDT by Red Badger
Death-row inmates headed to their executions will no longer be able to pick what theyd like for their last meal.
Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, issued this statement in response to concerns from Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire:
I believe Senator Whitmires concerns regarding the practice of allowing death row offenders to choose their last meal are valid. Effective immediately, no such accommodations will be made. They will receive the same meal served to other offenders on the unit.
Heres the original post about Whitmires concerns: Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire, D-Houston, wants to end the practice of providing death-row inmates with whatever theyd like for their last meal.
Whitmire in a Thursday letter to Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said hes long been concerned about the practice and that the last straw was the Houston Chronicles report of Lawrence Russell Brewer ordering a huge last meal that he failed to eat.
The senator recounted Brewers order of two chicken fried steaks, a triple meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet, a large bowl of fried okra, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream, and a pound of barbecue with a half loaf of white bread, calling it ridiculous.
I am asking that you end this practice immediately or I am prepared to do so by statute next session, Whitmire wrote. Death row inmates before execution should be fed the same meal as any other inmate on the unit the day of the scheduled execution.
Ive emailed TDCJs spokeswoman to ask for a comment.
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geze come ON! you know we’ve become barbarians now.
Yeah, one guy spoils it all for everybody else.
Good. They can eat a steaming plate of dog excrement for all I care.
/johnny
And the cost of that last meal was what $100-$200-$300?
Compared to (1) the cost to try and convict someone of murder, and (2) the cost of the bad publicity from breaking a longstanding tradition of allowing a condemed person to request their last meal, it seems cheaper to just let the practice continue.
"Are you up to the Death Row Challenge?"
Lawrence Russell Brewer ordering a huge last meal that he failed to eat.
Can they still get a cigarette and a blindfold?
The senator recounted Brewers order of two chicken fried steaks, a triple meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet, a large bowl of fried okra, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream, and a pound of barbecue with a half loaf of white bread, calling it ridiculous.
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You know, I wouldn’t really have a problem with the cost of preparing such a feast if only it was done less than a year after sentencing.
The very idea that Texas and other states are keeping these killers on death row for years and even decades is what is appalling.
The senator recounted Brewers order of two chicken fried steaks, a triple meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet, a large bowl of fried okra, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream, and a pound of barbecue with a half loaf of white bread, calling it ridiculous.
Put some gravy on that sumbitch!
One extreme action leads to another extreme reaction. Sheesh.
Have some mercy and grant a dying man’s wish. (Yes, within reason, of course.) It’s good for us all.
No smoking. Might get sick and die.......
Sounds very Texan not to mention multicultural to me.
Put some gravy on that sumbitch!
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As a Texasn I wanna know....
Brown gravy or cream?
Those meals are clearly dangerous! Both of those guys died soon after eating them.
I'd even allow a token cash payment to their next of kin for some of the money saved. Not that they deserve it, but because it would make libtards scream even louder.
This kind of indulgence to the condemned is a virtually universal practice in Westernized countries. Even this “wasted” meal as listed should have cost less than $100. If they are so worried about others wasting theirs, I’d suggest having the prisoner’s family pay for it, and/or if the prisoner has a prison job (is this done for death row?), from the prisoner’s savings. What the prisoner does not eat would go to the prisoner’s family.
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.
Moochelle should have stepped in and stopped this due to the fat content.
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