September 24, 2011
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Eating Your Last Meal
A white supremacist was executed the other day for chaining a black man to the back of his pickup truck and dragging him to his death while driving down a bumpy road.
(For some reason there were no posts about saving Brewer from execution).
Lawrence Russell Brewer was given a last meal before he was executed. He 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.” Here is the link: Link
Some people were upset he was given a “last meal” when he was involved in such a brutal murder (as opposed to less brutal murders).
Should a person get a “last meal” before he/she is executed?
Comments (68)
Well sure they should and that boy went on a full tummy.
I’m not sure how I feel about special last meals but there should definitely be a price limit on what they order.
I always thought that there was a 30$ food limit on last meals. hm
If the executioner blew it, that meal would have given the “good ol’ boy” a bad case of cardiac arrest.
What he did was wrong and inhuman, but that doesn’t give us the right to act the same towards him. If we did, wouldn’t that put us on the same level as him?
I do think there should be some type of limit on how much they can get. That’s more of a feast than a meal!
Why not let him order his last meal, have it brought out by two naked swedish swimsuit models, and place it on a stack of money right in front of him?
They gotta have a last meal of some sort, even if it isn’t anything fancy.
I thought there was a limit? I remember this crime. It was in and around the neighborhood my Grandmother used to live in. She knew the man that this monster dragged behind the truck. Do I believe in last meals? I understand why they let them have it, but I wouldn’t let them order a feast. Limit it or don’t offer it. *shrugs*
I guess I don’t get the thing about last meals. Why a meal? Why not a last concert, or a book, or a beautiful view, or time with a loved one? Maybe I’m just weird….but I don’t get what good the food is going to do him at that late date.
The real question you should be asking your readers is What would YOUR last meal be? Personally, I think I’d have a bowl of mango’s, a white chocolate macadamia cookie and a glass of cherry cola.
I don’t like the death penalty at all, I think it’s ok for even the worst of people to choose their last meal. It’s a sign of mercy and sympathy.
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
I am ashamed. How could the state provide a meal so high in cholesterol. That is “heart attack on a plate”. Inmates should be able to expect a healthy diet.
That’s more like a last 5 meals.
And now I want fried okra, dangit.
Brutal cop killer Troy Davis got the simpathy of every bleeding heart liberal in the country so why can’t a demented lunatic racist murderer have a food orgy before he’s exterminated?
It would be hard to enjoy food in such a circumstance. It’s an ironic act of mercy. I would not even want to eat.
Yea, they should. Even if they will be executed they need to have their strength for the execution, ironically. (I would be sick to my stomach but it’s their right) which reminds me about a House, MD episode where they had to save a guy on death row from dying on the hospital even if he was going to be executed. (random and pointless) but yes give them food… let them taste something they would like…
water and bread is suffice.
everybody deserves a last meal before they die
i don’t like the death penalty at all.
but i think the last meal is at least something decent to do before taking someone’s life.
also, “for some reason?”
hm, i wonder why this bigoted murder who admitted to his crimes and admitted to feeling no remorse didn’t get as much sympathy as a man who was still potentially innocent. GO FIGURE.
Only a last meal of normal prison food.
You didn’t mention that the man, who ordered all that food,..never ate ANY of it!! He ordered the food so that he could send it back untouched and wasted. That food would have given at least half a dozen innocent hungry children a good meal just to help them go to bed with stomachs that were not empty.
In a country,..this USA of ours,..in a country where one in five children don’t get enough to eat at all, a man, who has been judged guilty of committing MURDER,..is allowed to order up enough food to feed SIX people and then,…waste that food?
yep.
Good taste for food.
I dreamed a very handsome black man had long blonde hair. He said jennifer lopez sucked his big black dick. Then he gavr out a lecture that stated white women around the world were fiending for black cock. Then I saw a line, where successful black men like colby bryant were in the front, and mikey minogue was in the middle. Then, the very handsome black guy with long blond hair appeared on the weather news, then I woke up. This was one of the coolest dreams ever! I was not a part of the dream, I was a witnesser.
I had multiple dreams today. I dream of my stepfather a lot. My brother appeared in my dream, yey!
I love those white kkk ignorant racists, they make me happy, lynching makes me happy, I would never do it, but surr would not mind witnessing it. I think pinatas are a desire to lynch. If the white man wants to kill the negros, what do they want to do to mexicans?
I love violence, it makes me happy.
Did the man he murder get a last meal? No? Didn’t think so. So, why is he so special? He’s a freaking criminal. Give them something, sure, but all that? Who pays for that? If they want to give a death row inmate a last meal, make it the normal prison food. They don’t deserve anything special. Most people, who aren’t in jail, don’t get a last meal of their choice like that, for crying out loud.
Am I the only one here who is absolutely obsessed with what cop killer Troy Davis had for HIS last meal? I mean doesn’t anyone care about the black guy anymore?
i’m suddenly thinking of all the people who don’t get a last meal, because they don’t know when it is. and that’s all i have to say about that.
he’s ruinned it for the rest of us!
@BebstersBlog2 - Ha, that was my thought too,I want me so Fried Okra!
This bitch will take a double lobster and a peach long island. Please and Thank you.
A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down!
I haven’t read the comments so I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this but part of the controversy surrounding this last meal was that he asked for a ton of food and the didn’t eat any of it.
I guess, they prolly won’t poop themselves since they just ate it.
Well certainly not this example of a last meal! Ridiculous lack of limitation!
…. and he didn’t eat any of it! hahaha, that’s hilarious.
I don’t see the point to a last meal.
What they should offer them is a last puff on the magic doobie.
If they’d fed him that meal every day, he would have died of a heart attack years ago. Think of the long-term savings to tax payers!
God, if he eats like THAT regularly, the cholesterol would have done him in anyway. Once again, proof that the death penalty is not only wrongheaded, it’s also redundant.
@saintvi - LMAO we had the same line of thought.
I don’t know. part of me says yes, but another part of me says he brutally killed a man, so no.
also, don’t your bowels let go when you die anyway? that just seems like more cleanup for the crew, no?
Yes they should be given a last meal. There ARE some innocent people on death row and some have been put to death for a crime they never commited. I am all for the death penalty,and I will go one step further,I think that anyone that was given the death penalty and then had it switched to life when we stopped executing,should have the original sentence reinstated. A perfect example would be Charlie Manson who in 1970 was sentenced to death. Why should the taxpayers have to pay to keep such a monster alive for all these years?
Only if forced to eat ALL of it. They’d be feeling pretty ill by the time of their demise, and that would be additional punishment in itself.
Is feeling sick this murderer is granted something to fill him up; while the poor guy he killed was devoid of his life.
I hope he rots and burns in hell.
Some of the meals are outrageously extravagant, but I can’t get worked up about it. Compared with the time and money spent on fighting appeals, the last meal comes pretty cheap.
I don’t think he deserves a “last meal”, even a mediocre meal itself is a big privilege for somebody on death row. Think about it this way: did the victims ever got a final wish or meal just before they were killed?
@raspberryjade - I agree; such a waste of food.
he should eat what any other prisoner eats. nothing special.
Yes, of course for a few reasons. 1) We are still human, are we not? He might not be, but we are. 2) Let him see what he’ll never taste again.
Too bad the surviving family members couldn’t prepare it how they saw fit.
Do they deserve it? Not really. But they’re going to die. They know the date, the time of day and even the method. Let them have one last thing in life because from that point on, probably even the seconds passing by feel like a hammer stroke that is nailing their coffin together. I don’t think they should have anything ridiculous or over $100 like this inmate has requested. He viciously killed someone and by his own choices has arrived at death row. No great reward should be given for that.
If it was me and I was eating my last meal, I’m not even sure I could enjoy it. But you can certainly bet I’d be eating a whole pie and all the shit I’ve seen on Man vs. Food. I wouldn’t stop eating either. I’d eat past the I’m-going-to-puke feeling until my body shifted me straight into a food induced coma. And then I’d hopefully be groggy when I was given the injection.
dont feed the asshole
If there isn’t already there should be a price limit on the meal and if the meal is not eaten it should be given to someone else or otherwise consumed, it’s wasteful.
haha and “he didnt eat any of it” wow. what a shame. Yeah I would order something crazy like that too. I mean, screw “healthy eating.” It’s your last meal, you should eat whatever you want! I laughed so hard when it said that someone requested dirt for their last meal, HAHA.
Maybe these guys were hoping they’d die of a heart attack first haha.
Yeah they should, they’re going to die anyway. As for the price thing, their paying a lot of money for the injections or gases or whatever their using these days to kill a murderer. Would it make much of a difference if the food was pricey?
Just a thought…don’t know if it might make any sense at all. But just the same.
Nice post.
Well, the reason there are no posts about this guy as opposed to Troy Davis is because there was very strong evidence that Troy was not guilty.
There is no evidence of the sort for this guy.
but yeah, the whole black victim thing too
I find it interesting that our lives are so dominated by food that it’s what matters when it comes to our last anything.
I don’t know because I don’t really think it matters that much. You’re about to die, what does it matter what you eat? I personally wouldn’t care for a last meal because when I’m nervous I don’t have an appetite and I feel nauseous, and I can bet I’d be pretty worried to know I was about to be executed.
Yes, we must feed them until we kill them otherwise they die of starvation during the twenty-thirty year period they spend on death row right? This is my official day off drop in.
They are JUST NOW executing that guy???? I still get creeped out at the visual images and when I first heard that story I was embarrassed to call myself white because of him. I hope he gets a bad case of diarrhea and had excruciating stomach cramps before he is put down. I am a pacifist and against the death penalty with few exceptions. This is one of them.
@mommachatter - are you joking or being serious?
The purpose of the last meal is to honor the ‘human’ being removed from existence, a ‘christian’ gesture, so to speak. Many times , however, the condemned regurg it in the throes of death, but you’re not told this as it makes the death sound more brutal and evil, as it were. Why feed them? Where they’re going food is of no consequence, but the gesture, as far as I’m concerned should be made…. But still, after the brutal removal of anothers life, who may not have gotten a last meal, still stands. WHY? Peace
Because of that extremely evil man the one little grace given to inmates on death row is now ended in TX; they can no longer order special meals. And he wasted the food, didn’t touch it. As if his crime didn’t prove enough how evil he really was. What a piece of shit that guy was.
i guess if i was the victims family i would say no! but i’m not…i guess it’s his last meal. think of it this way, what was he thinking those last minutes of his life. the terror, the anguish, all the panic of knowing he wouldn’t wake up tomorrow. a last meal is nothing compared to his last breath on earth!
He didn’t actually eat all the food…didn’t anyone else read the article? It was a power play.
@ahmd1432@lovelyish - wat
A last meal yes, what the person wants (if the person eats it all well and good) howver a lot of people in the world don’t get a choice of food to eat, are starving, not got a lot of money etc. I have read one or two people who were waiting to be executed, even refused to eat the meal ordered.
Another reason it just passes the time before being taken to the chamber or the place when the executed is going to be taken place.
Death is abolute, you cannot bring it back.
I think they should have a last meal. I just think it’s ridiculous that this particular guy ordered all of those things and reportedly didn’t eat ANY of it!
@foreverdiet - Just joking, my dear. From what I know most prisons serve a healthy diet to it’s prisoners. The meal he requested would drive any dietician to appoplexy. My neighbor was formally from that quiet little town, Jasper, and told me of how nice the people are there. I normally wouldn’t joke about any death, but when the murderer said he was not sorry and would do it again if he could, I guess something snapped in me. I apologize for my crudeness.
They should have given him a rat burger!
@mommachatter - no no no i was just checking because it was either stupid or hilarious. i wasnt offended.
TC – another hot topic. Frankly, I’m against the death penalty. China, Iran, Iraq, and Syria have the death penalty. We could not join the European Union unless we dropped it. The cost of the meal is nothing compared to the cost of state sponsored murder. It takes on average 20 years to kill a person and upwards of a million to two million dollars of tax payer money. To lock a person away for 30 years costs less than a million.
We should just give them liquor, cigarettes and nothing but fast food. They’ll all be dead in a couple years. If they make it through the weekend.
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@Lithium98 - lol hey now, some people might actually commit crime to get that!