After white supremacist Lawrence Brewer who infamously dragged a Texas man by the name of James Byrd Jr. to his death in 1998 ordered an elaborate final meal before his execution only to tell officials he wasn’t hungry, Senator John Whitmire has written a letter encouraging prison officials to halt the practice. Brewer requested a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a meat-lover’s pizza, a big bowl of okra with ketchup, a pound of barbecue, a half a loaf of bread, peanut butter fudge, a pint of ice cream and two chicken-fried steaks – all of which was delivered to his cell at around 4PM on the day of his execution, only for him to tell officers he was no longer hungry.
After receiving the letter from the Senator, on Thursday executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Brad Livingston halted the ritual immediately.
If you’re on death row this is the least of your concerns….
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I wish this racist would have slowly choked to death on the peanut butter fudge…
Or choked on his own shit….
There is something wrong with us people, seriously.
We got big problems. Watch each other y’all, GottaWatch’Em.
okra with ketchup? what in the bama?
Ok, are they really saying that the request he made was so out of place? I mean how much did his last meal cost?
And are you mad he didn’t eat it? Dude, you are going to put him to death, he can request whatever he wants to eat and if he don’t eat it who cares?
The death penalty is no joke… you are taking someones life (and all we can do is hope they wasn’t framed or otherwise innocent) as a final punishment for their crimes. I think we can give them a last meal.
he coulda asked for whatever food he wanted. this racist fuck ordered applebees.
Did James Byrd get to choose his last meal? I don’t think so. Why should this coward get the privilege of doing so?
Yes, James Byrd Jr.’s father did indeed get to choose his own meal