Posted on 07/09/2018 7:51:28 AM PDT by Simon Green
A man in Georgia set to be executed Tuesday requested some seriously high-calorie food for his last meal.
Keith Tharpe — who was sentenced to death in 1991 for the murder of Jacquelin Freeman — requested three spicy chicken breasts, a roast beef sandwich with sauce, a fish sandwich, tater logs, onion rings, apple pie and a vanilla milkshake, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Not every state honors inmates’ last meal requests. Some limit the cost — Florida’s ceiling is $40, according to the Department of Corrections website, with food to be purchased locally. Others, like Texas, which never had a designated dollar limit, mandate meals be prison-made. Some states don’t acknowledge final meals, and others will disclose the information only if the inmate agrees, said K. William Hayes, a Florida-based death penalty historian.
There is one thing prisoners will never be allowed as part of their last meal: alcohol, which was requested in 2015 by inmate Marcus Ray Johnson, who wanted a six-pack of beer, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
In Georgia, if an inmate makes no special request for his last meal, they are given the standard menu of chicken and rice, rutabagas, seasoned turnip greens, dry white beans, cornbread, bread pudding and fruit punch, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections.
Last meal requests from well-known prisoners have become somewhat famous. In 1994, John Wayne Gacy requested 12 fried shrimp, a bucket of original recipe KFC, French fries and a pound of strawberries. In 1963, Victor Feguer requested a single olive with the pit in it, according to Business Insider.
We’re gettin’ the band back together. ;)
So, you are probably one of those that take exception to Trump calling murderous MS-13 gang members ‘animals’.
Uh. I sense there might be a wee bit more to that story...
Yup, how it humane to pump someone full of drugs that sometimes takes a long time to work, when a bullet to the heart is quick and very little suffering...
I do like your idea as well...
Do they give cannibals a last meal request?
Sentenced to death in 1991 and the execution is 27 years later.
Hey, here in CA, he would have likely died of old age before he could be executed.
Housing prisoners for their lifetimes is a HUGE part of our economy in Wisconsin. Our Supermax prisons are second to none.
We may not have the Death Penalty, BUT - you can easily be ‘Dahmerized’ in our prisons if the other fine, upstanding criminals feel your misdeeds egregious enough.
So, we’ve got THAT going for us. ;)
That’s what I’m sayin’! ;)
Excellent correction! :)
Did he give his victim, Jacquelin Freeman, a choice of what her last meal would be?
When blacks migrated from the rural South to northern cities, a lot of what was traditional southern food became associated with African Americans. Fried chicken, corn bread, black eyed peas, watermelon etc became ‘soul food’ in spite of the fact it was eaten on a regular basis by everyone in the South regardless of skin color.
Your post made me hungry. Time for lunch.
I see your point, but I find it difficult to square with the heinous, cruel, and sadisitic way in which many of these murderers took their victims’ lives. “Last meals” didn’t even come into it for those victims, not remotely.
“The default menu they listed seems to be a bit racist, IMHO.”
You’re not from around here, are you? Down here the white people and the black people eat pretty much the same thing. Hell, they didn’t even list fried chicken and watermelon (which we all eat).
Georgia executes people
I lived in Michigan, which abolished the death penalty in 1846.
We had some of the biggest friggin’ prisons you had ever seen.
Could not drive more than fifteen miles in any direction without encountering this sign:
“Prison Area: Do Not Pick-Up Hitchhikers!”
Yep. As I said, prisons are a big economic contributor to some states.
Spot On.
The choice should be no more complicated than cheese or no cheese on the burger.
Hang ‘em.
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