It has been common practice for the prison to give the prisoner the choice of his or her last meal before execution. However, this practice has been stopped in Texas, after a large request was not consumed. Upon hearing this news, Senator John Whitmire commented that "It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege. One which the perpetrator did not provide to their victim."
The drop of the last meal in Texas will surely spark some controversy over the humane-ness of it, as well as call attention to the cruelty of the death penalty in general.
What do you think? Does the prisoner deserve the privilege of a last meal? Or is he really deserving of being completely miserable before he dies?
And in case you were wondering, the prisoner who refused to eat his last meal was Lawrence Brewer, who was executed for his involvement in the infamous racially-motivated murder of James Byrd, Jr., who was dragged to death.
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