The Last Supper
My home state of Texas is famous for its large number of executions. For years, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice maintained an online list of what these inmates requested as their last suppers. TCDJ recently took down the list, but it is now available on a mirror.
The list makes for fascinating reading. Be sure to click on the inmates’ names, so you can see why they were being executed.
My favorite: Stanley Baker, Jr.
Two 16 oz. ribeyes, one lb. turkey breast (sliced thin), twelve strips of bacon, two large hamburgers with mayo, onion, and lettuce, two large baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, cheese, and chives, four slices of cheese or one-half pound of grated cheddar cheese, chef salad with blue cheese dressing, two ears of corn on the cob, one pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream, and four vanilla Cokes or Mr. Pibb.
What a fattie.
Wow, this gives a remarkably human character to these so-called “animals” (“who else deserves to be put to death?”)…
I almost feel sorry for them.
I feel terribly sorry for at least SOME of these people, because it is an absolute, 200% certainty that some of these people are put to death while being perfectly innocent (after having spent heaven knows how longtime on death row, also for no good reason). There is not a shadow of a doubt about that (except in the mind of the governor of Texas). Even if the rate of error were only 1% (and it is DEFINITELY more than that), wouldn’t you want to keep everyone alive from fear of killing an innocent human being?
I think if I were on death row while innocent, I wouldn’t want anything at all to eat or drink. My way of saying “f*** you” to the system, I guess …