Anti Federalist
09-23-2011, 08:32 PM
You know, costs and all.
Maybe they'll use that money to purchase more DNA testing to exonerate the innocent on death row? Ya think? :rolleyes:
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
It won't be too much longer before the family of an executed political prisoner gets a bill for the bullet that blew their loved one's brains out.
Texas prisons end special last meals in executions
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-prisons-end-special-last-meals-executions-195102056.html
HOUSTON (AP) — It's a tradition with roots that can be traced far back in history: Before being put to death, a condemned prisoner can choose his last meal.
Not so anymore in Texas.
Officials who oversee the country's busiest death chamber stopped the practice on Thursday after a prominent state senator complained about a hefty request from a man executed for his role in a notorious dragging death. Now, inmates get to eat only what the kitchen serves.
The controversy began after Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was executed on Wednesday for the hate crime slaying of James Byrd Jr. more than a decade ago, 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. Prison officials said Brewer didn't eat any of it.
Maybe they'll use that money to purchase more DNA testing to exonerate the innocent on death row? Ya think? :rolleyes:
I've said it before, I'll say it again:
It won't be too much longer before the family of an executed political prisoner gets a bill for the bullet that blew their loved one's brains out.
Texas prisons end special last meals in executions
http://news.yahoo.com/texas-prisons-end-special-last-meals-executions-195102056.html
HOUSTON (AP) — It's a tradition with roots that can be traced far back in history: Before being put to death, a condemned prisoner can choose his last meal.
Not so anymore in Texas.
Officials who oversee the country's busiest death chamber stopped the practice on Thursday after a prominent state senator complained about a hefty request from a man executed for his role in a notorious dragging death. Now, inmates get to eat only what the kitchen serves.
The controversy began after Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was executed on Wednesday for the hate crime slaying of James Byrd Jr. more than a decade ago, 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. Prison officials said Brewer didn't eat any of it.