He didn't offer his victim the privilege of choosing a last meal
September 23, 2011 7:46 PM   Subscribe

Texas to end practice of providing a last meal prior to execution. The move came after universally-reviled white supremacist gang member Lawrence Brewer ordered up a particularly lavish feast before his execution Wednesday night. Brewer, 44, had been convicted for his role in a 1998 hate killing in which a 49-year-old black man, James Byrd, Jr., was chained by his ankles to a pickup truck and dragged for miles along an asphalt road. The killers dumped his decapitated body in front of an African-American cemetery in Jasper, Texas. According to the Houston Chronicle: “Brewer ordered—but did not eat—a final meal of two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet, a large bowl of fried okra, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream, and a pound of barbecue with a half loaf of white bread.”
posted by Renoroc (6 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Pretty much the same reason as this one. -- restless_nomad



 
Double.
posted by nevercalm at 7:48 PM on September 23, 2011


Well, double of a deleted thread.
posted by nevercalm at 7:51 PM on September 23, 2011


I hope that thread was given a final meal of GRAR and plated beans.
posted by dr_dank at 8:02 PM on September 23, 2011


Again?
posted by anigbrowl at 8:02 PM on September 23, 2011


That oughta show 'em.
posted by penduluum at 8:02 PM on September 23, 2011


Laciretsynope
posted by micturator at 8:03 PM on September 23, 2011


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