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Condemned Death Row inmate Lawrence Russell Brewer, on the night he was to be executed “ordered two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet with other ingredients, a large bowl of fried okra with ketchup, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream and a pound of barbecue with a half-loaf of white bread. The meal request also included a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts, a pizza and three root beers.” He did not eat or drink any of it, so Texas legislators, driven wild by the expense and the petulant refusal to eat it, are getting rid of all-request execution night dinners altogether. I would bet that this will be a bigger deterrent than the death penalty itself. For who among us hasn’t scrapped that namby-pamby concept of Desert Island Dish for the far more meaningful Last Meal?

Condemned Death Row inmate Lawrence Russell Brewer, on the night he was to be executed “ordered two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet with other ingredients, a large bowl of fried okra with ketchup, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream and a pound of barbecue with a half-loaf of white bread.
The meal request also included a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts, a pizza and three root beers.”

He did not eat or drink any of it, so Texas legislators, driven wild by the expense and the petulant refusal to eat it, are getting rid of all-request execution night dinners altogether. I would bet that this will be a bigger deterrent than the death penalty itself. For who among us hasn’t scrapped that namby-pamby concept of Desert Island Dish for the far more meaningful Last Meal?

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