[Diana in Wisconsin]

FU. You get one saltine and a glass of water!

[Buckeye McFrog]

three spicy chicken breasts, a roast beef sandwich with sauce, a fish sandwich, tater logs, onion rings, apple pie and a vanilla milkshake

Just think what that will do to his cholesterol.

Wait a minute...

[NEMDF]

I don’t think his meal request seems “extravagant”. Maybe a lot of food, but nothing is fancy.

The default menu they listed seems to be a bit racist, IMHO.

[I want the USA back]

” rutabagas, seasoned turnip greens, dry white beans, cornbread, bread pudding and fruit punch,”
A meal to die for.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Amazing that anyone is able to eat under the circumstances.

[Scrambler Bob]

What’s a Cannibal’s last meal request?

Warden Weenies.

[fso301]

So many calories from fat could result in serious health consequences.

[bkopto]

Did their victims get a last Anything? No. So nutraloaf is good enough for the condemned.

[mrsmel]

That was my understandimg-that in most states, they can make these extravagant requests, but they don’t usually receive them. A fine meal would be the last thing on my mind if I was being executed. I’d request a few valiums.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Adolf Eichmann’s last meal was half a bottle of dry red wine (Carmel, an Israeli variety). I suppose today alcohol might interfere with the euthanasia drug being used.

[DAC21]

DRY white Beans?

[dfwgator]

You’ll get nothing and like it.

[WMarshal]

I am for the death penalty but I think that honoring a convict’s last meal requests is the honorable thing to do as it affirms that even though a man has to pay for his crimes he is still a human being. When you are about to take everything a man has, his life and his future, denying a small kindness is petty and does more harm to the executioners than the convict. Also, forbidding alchohol is something that only a pompous ass would do. There should be a maximum limit to be spent on a last meal, say $200, but if it is legal, then let them have it.

[Ciaphas Cain]

A last meal for the condemned has a long tradition behind it. In some ways it symbolizes that it's not an act of hatred or anger toward the person about to die. It's the state's way of saying "no hard feelings, we are only doing what must be done, and we do empathize with your situation." The condemned prisoner accepting the meal is symbolic of him or her accepting fate, and letting justice run its course. Also with no hard feelings toward the state and those involved in his or her execution.

It's a small thing, but an act of civility that separates America from too many other places in this world.

[fwdude]

I think last meal requests serve as a very revealing window into the psyche of the condemned. Self-gratification to the last?

[waterhill]

I read somewhere that laxatives are in the food so as to clear the system so they don’t crap the bed when they crap the bed.

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>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<<<

That last “meal” would make me consider Suicide.

[gdzla]

“was sentenced to death in 1991”

[Ez2BRepub]

The last meal is not the problem, the problem is, he has been on death row since 1991.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Uh? With all that food he might choke on it. Can’t let that happen. My biggest question is why do the wipe the injection area with alcohol before they put the needle in? Fear if infection which may lead to blood poisoning?