Tony_FLADEM
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Fri Sep-23-11 02:13 PM
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Special Last Meals: Texas Prisons End Special Last Meals For Inmates Facing Execution |
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MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press
HOUSTON (Associated Press) -- Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, a change prison officials made Thursday after a prominent state senator became miffed over an expansive request from a man condemned for a notorious dragging death.
Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was executed Wednesday for the hate crime slaying of James Byrd Jr. more than a decade ago, asked for two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover's pizza, a pint of ice cream and a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts. Prison officials said Brewer didn't eat any of it.
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Fri Sep-23-11 02:16 PM
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1. Steak, Chicken, or Vegetarian and be done with it. |
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Brewer should have eaten a baseball bat in the face from Byrd's family as his last meal.
Fucking animal.
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Fri Sep-23-11 02:29 PM
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7. I share your sentiment on an emotional level |
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Edited on Fri Sep-23-11 02:31 PM by av8rdave
However, I've always felt our goal as a society should be that we are better than the condemned. If we are going to have a death penalty, then the way we administer it should show the world that we are at least professional and humane about it.
That being said, I have to agree wholeheartedly with your last sentence. F%#+ing animal is the best that guy ever was.
On edit: re-reading your post, I have to agree with your subject line too. Sounds professional and humane to me!
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Fri Sep-23-11 06:39 PM
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12. Might as well put a thumbtack on the seat of the electric chair: |
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Fri Sep-23-11 02:16 PM
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2. To me this is just petty... We are taking a life .... |
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NO matter how horrible their crime--the person-- don't they deserve even the most minimal consideration before they die?
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Fri Sep-23-11 02:20 PM
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4. I agree that it's petty. Denying them a requested last meal isn't going to change the severity of |
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Fri Sep-23-11 02:27 PM
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6. Petty was my first thought. |
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And it was a Democrat who was so outraged. He's been wanting to kill the last meal plan for a long time, and this order gave him rage material. "Manipulating the system," those horrible criminals are.
One convict asked if he could donate his last meal to a homeless person, but that was denied too.
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Fri Sep-23-11 02:19 PM
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3. Humans: Always coming up with better ways to be cruel to one another. |
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I'm not saying this guy was a good person, he wasn't. But since we're, you know, going to kill him and all, it seems civilized to let him/her choose their last meal.
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Fri Sep-23-11 02:20 PM
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5. When Timothy Mc Veigh was executed,... |
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...they told him he could have any last meal he wanted, on two conditions: it could be obtained locally (near the prison), and it cost less than $20. These conditions seem quite reasonable to me.
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Fri Sep-23-11 02:36 PM
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8. They should be given the same last meal that they gave their victims |
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In Brewer's case, gravel.
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Fri Sep-23-11 03:22 PM
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9. They're going to kill someone and worry about the cost of the last supper? |
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Fri Sep-23-11 05:17 PM
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10. why do they always pick white-trashy meals? |
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Edited on Fri Sep-23-11 05:17 PM by provis99
If I'm going to be executed, I want truffles, foie de gras, lobster, Kobe steak, and a bottle of Krug champagne.
It says something revealing about who gets on death row, when you realize their idea of a great meal is a cheeseburger and a Mountain Dew; only poor people with no culture or taste are apparently sent to death row, and that says something damning about the whole death row system.
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Fri Sep-23-11 05:31 PM
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Mine would be copper river salmon cooked on a cedar plank, king crab with clarified butter and a garlic infusion, grass fed organic steak from Alberta with a side of mushrooms, and a good pinot noir. And for desert baked cheesecake (no creamcheese please - that shit ain't right).
Of course I don't plan on collecting that meal ... EVER.
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