Death Row - Last Meal Requests

[Iceaxe]

Last Meal (http://web.archive.org/web/20031202214318/http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/finalmeals.htm)

I'm going with a rack of babyback ribs, baked beans and corn on the cob. :2thumbs:

What would you order?

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[CrazyFinn]

I like this guy...

Jar of polish pickles, small wedge of cheese, tossed salad with Italian dressing, cheeseburger with mayo (all the way), large order of french fries with ketchup, relish tray, and a pitcher of grape juice

I noticed a lot of cheeseburgers and chicken. :haha:

I want my tri-tip and mashed potatoes with green beens.

[JP]

I'm not gonna have to worry about it :haha:

[KapitanSparrow]

Agree to a rack of ribs, large fries... too bad they don't serve alcohol cause I would knock meself out :roflol:

[Mooseman70]

I'm not gonna have to worry about it :haha:

I'm with you there, JP! :lol8:

[blueeyes]

Sushi and Saki.

Green Globe, Escolar poppers, Volcano and some really smooth cold saki.

And you might as well throw in a side of Fugu. Like to see what all the fuss is about.

[savanna3313]

Who could eat knowing they were about to die? :ne_nau: I have to agree with Kapitan......bring on the booze so I can knock myself out. :cool2:

[blueeyes]

Well Savanah... it is all hypothetical... and you have a good point.

[savanna3313]

Well Savanah... it is all hypothetical... and you have a good point.

Oh, I know that. I was just thinking about what someone's stomach would feel like trying to enjoy something really yummy, knowing that you're not going to see the next day.

But - hypothetically, I would go with shrimp creole and cheesecake. :haha:

[JP]

I'm with you there, JP! :lol8:
I'd rather be the one throwing the switch :haha:

[DiscGo]

I actually found that list interesting. Comparing the requests to those who had no requests to those who refused their last meals. I decided that I too would be one of the people that ate WAY too much. That way I'd go into a food coma and then feel like I just never came out.

[Iceaxe]

Alcohol is prohibited from the requests.... this is prison.

and I watched a documentary on this last meal deal once. It said almost all prisoners said they were not really hungry but nearly everyone of them finished their last meal.

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[ilanimaka]

For those of you who would drink until you were truly sloshed, when you woke up the next morning for your death, the hangover would make this a mercy killing. :haha:

Me, I'd go for fried squirrel with fresh smashed taters & squirrel gray. Hot d@mn that would be a fine last meal. Dang it... now I'm hungry... :slobber: Stupid Utah with their lack of Fox Squirrels. :frustrated:

[DiscGo]

... I watched a documentary on this last meal deal once. It said almost all prisoners said they were not really hungry but nearly everyone of them finished their last meal.

Interesting. I think I would enjoy that documentary.

[Iceaxe]

It was really a documentary on condemned men and what their thoughts and feeling were as the execution date and time approached. It was several years ago that I saw it and I can't remember the name. It's funny but the one part I remember like it was yesterday was the several minutes they spent talking about the last meal.... I don't remember hardly a thing about the religious aspect and do condemned men seek and accept god....

but I remember everything about the last meal. Guess that just shows how messed up my priorities are. :haha:

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[DiscGo]

Remember last year when their was that execution of the founder of the Crips? (Tookie Williams). I remember reading an article about his execution where it mentioned the nurse had a really hard time finding his vein and the article painted him in a bad lightening for being upset with the nurse for not finding his veins sooner. I feel as though it is pretty darn easy to understand his frustration. If I were being put to death I would find it pretty difficult to be pleasant to my would be executor.

[KapitanSparrow]

In my opinion they have it too good, lethal injection, last meal and all. If it was up to me they would do hard labor while awaiting their date with the executioner. And the fathers or husbands of the victims would have the option of dealing out the death penalty in a way they see fit. And no last freaking meals! Don't we have kids starving in the U.S.? Put those bastards on a diet instead of giving them last meals. That will make it easier for everyone, nurse included.

[Deathcricket]

That was interesting. I found a couple requests kinda strange.

Rumbaugh Charles 555 09/11/1985 One flour tortilla and water

Maybe a religious ceremony? Like bread and wine that catholics do?

[DiscGo]

I guess I don't mind our system spending the extra 40 bucks on this person for their last meal when you consider that one of the main reasons they are being executed is for all the money they will save tax payers by being executed now instead of draining our prison system for 70 years.


I'm all for time being hard for people but for the most part people being executed is already pretty harsh. Providing them a decent meal at least can keep us in touch with our own humanity.


I don't know that I really believe anything I just typed....

[DiscGo]

One flour tortilla and water

Maybe a religious ceremony? Like bread and wine that catholics do?


Interesting. I had not noticed that one.

[Iceaxe]

I do remember reading somewhere that condemed men are no longer allowed a last cigarette because the prisons are smoke free.

If it were me choosing my own execution it would be by firing squad, standing (not sitting), a last cigarette and no blind fold.

Just sayin.... :cool2:

[DiscGo]

no blind fold.

Interesting. I guess I had not though about it, but I can totally see the logic behind it. Just not being able to see it coming would be pretty horrible.


I would want to be sedated (not killed by lethal injection but sedated). Then while I asleep have someone shoot me in the head with a shotgun :)

[Mooseman70]

I'm with you there, JP! :lol8:
I'd rather be the one throwing the switch :haha:

:haha: "Roll on one! Roll on two!" :2thumbs:

[KapitanSparrow]

I do remember reading somewhere that condemed men are no longer allowed a last cigarette because the prisons are smoke free.

If it were me choosing my own execution it would be by firing squad, standing (not sitting), a last cigarette and no blind fold.

Just sayin.... :cool2:


I remember my history professor discussing the culture of "machismo." He showed us this picture as the ultimate definition of machismo:

Captain Fortino Samano smokes a last cigar before execution - 12 Jan 1917

[DiscGo]

Wow. That guy is pretty remarkable. If I were going to be executed I expect I'd be doing a lot of crying.

[Iceaxe]

[quote=KapitanSparrow]Captain Fortino Samano smokes a last cigar before execution - 12 Jan 1917

[KapitanSparrow]

That is why I never cry at the dentist's office or when I am having my blood drawn - too many pretty ladies :haha:

[Iceaxe]

That is why I never cry at the dentist's office or when I am having my blood drawn - too many pretty ladies :haha:

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[savanna3313]

I guess I don't mind our system spending the extra 40 bucks on this person for their last meal when you consider that one of the main reasons they are being executed is for all the money they will save tax payers by being executed now instead of draining our prison system for 70 years.


I'm all for time being hard for people but for the most part people being executed is already pretty harsh. Providing them a decent meal at least can keep us in touch with our own humanity.


I don't know that I really believe anything I just typed....

If you ever have someone in your family murdered (I have) then you will feel that the death penalty is too good for the bastard. jmho

Sorry.....didn't mean to come across harshly. But it's hard to have feelings and compassion for certain folks.

[savanna3313]

Anyhoo.... I hope they serve beer in hell. :haha:

:cool2:

Probably not.....why do you think they call it hell? :twisted:

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[canyonphile]

If it were me choosing my own execution it would be by firing squad, standing (not sitting), a last cigarette and no blind fold.

Just sayin.... :cool2:
Okay, I am glad to see that: 1) I'm not the only one who has ever had this macabre throught [and has actually discussed it]; 2) that I'm not the only one who would choose firing squad as a preferred method of execution. :five:. Not sure about the blindfold, but definitely standing and facing the squad. A valium or like several hits off a bong might help ease the anxiety.

If done properly, it seems the cheapest, most effective, and fastest way to end a life. And, isn't Utah the only state that still has execution via firing squad in the country?

I do know I'd NOT want to be electocuted, gassed or "put down like a dog" as you said, Iceaxe. Having seen "Dead Man Walking", that really creeps me out. Too sanitized or something...

I don't fear death, but I do I fear dying in pain or in terror...like plane crash, burning, etc. Anyone who has watched "The Tudors" on Showtime knows all the gruesome ways they executed people back then :eek2:!

Anyway, back to the original topic of last meal...hmmm...assuming, like others, that I had an appetite, I'd probably have:

A bread and cheese plate consisting of one of the best French baguettes (since I wouldn't be able to bake my own), a bunch of cheeses including some 5-yr aged Gouda, D'affinous, Stilton bleu and some chevre rolled fresh herbs and peppercorns. Pan-seared scallops in a saffron-white wine cream sauce. Fresh truffles prepared however they usually are because I hear they are the major gastronomic shiznit. And, for dessert, some creme brulee with fresh rasberries and blueberries. Those things would all otherwise make me as fat as a whale, but it would be a be a moot point :mrgreen:.

I can't even contemplate what sort of henious crime spree I'd have to go on to warrant being executed, and committing crimes (aside from tax evasion maybe :haha: ) just isn't my thang. Plus, being a chick and all would make getting capital punishment that less likely.

[Iceaxe]

Anyhoo.... I hope they serve beer in hell. :haha:

:cool2:

Probably not.....why do you think they call it hell? :twisted:

:haha:

It's Hell.... I figured the only thing on tap would be Old Milwaukee.

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[Iceaxe]

isn't Utah the only state that still has execution via firing squad in the country?

I think Utah eliminated the choice a few years back. When Gary Gilmore was executed he had the choice of firing squad or hanging. He took firing squad. After that they added lethal injection to the list, than about a year back they made lethal injection the only option. If I remember right part of the reason was they had no where to hold a firing squad as the old building where Gilmore was executed was removed for expansion.

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