Posted on 08/09/2018 7:55:48 PM PDT by Simon Green
A Tennessee convicted child rapist and killer on Wednesday picked a deluxe burger combo as his last meal before his execution -- the first in the state in nearly a decade.
Billy Ray Irick, 59, chose the combo that included a super deluxe burger, onion rings and a Pepsi soft drink, the Tennessee Department of Correction said Wednesday. Irick, who is being held at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, will eat his last meal before his execution, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday.
The name of the restaurant that prepared the meal was not released “out of an abundance of caution,” the department said.
Death row inmates are given a $20 limit to spend on their last meal, the Tennessean reported.
Irick was convicted in the 1985 rape and murder of 7-year-old Paula Dyer, who he was babysitting.
The convicted killer is expected to receive a three-drug injection on Thursday. If Irick is executed, it will be the first time Tennessee has applied the death penalty since 2009.
Irick exhausted all his appeals since being convicted and continued over the years to challenge the drugs Tennessee officials used in lethal injections for death row inmates.
On Monday, the state Supreme Court denied a stay of Irick's execution, saying a lawsuit filed by inmates contesting the execution drugs being used wasn't likely to succeed.
The Supreme Court on Thursday also denied his last-minute request for a stay of execution.
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This is a quaint old tradition I think we can dispose of at this time. Either that, or start using it A LOT MORE. Either way.
So, is he DRT or appealed/stayed?
This rotten SOB should have been EXECUTED 32 years ago when he was convicted of raping and strangling a 7 year old little girl.
I always found that very telling....
I just checked. No Stay, he is ready to face Judgement.
Too bad he couldn't order from our local Dominos. By the time that it was delivered, he'd be colder than the pizza.
He even brought his own ax to cut the candy with!
Maybe the three of them can play Twister.
I tend to think that kind of Inmate Administered Poetic Justice DOES NOT happen nearly as often as the general public would like it to. Some maggots no longer have a gag reflex.
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(Then they could thrown him into the bag, and buried both him and the cold pizza.)
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Alternatively, they could have had some pizza place in San Francisco rapidly FedEx it in to him in prison, with various brown mystery toppings which that city is now famous for, liberally sprinkled all over the pizza. (I guess they could have done that to the burger too.)
She would have been 40 now, probably with children of her own.
That hurts my heart.
Why did they let him live so long? I’m surprised he didn’t die of an illness while incarcerated.
If the injections don’t kill him, the menu will no doubt do the trick.
Bring back Old Sparky.
Irony.
Pepsi? No chocolate malt?
There’s a tell...
Brrrr….
My last meal would be an all you can eat buffet........
The Saudis has a great way of dealing with murderers...swift justice...no appeals...
Both of the parents let Irick babysit her. They should’ve told Irick he won’t be babysitting today. That’s why Mrs Deplorable is a stay at home mom. We don’t want non family members babysitting for us.
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