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No more last meals in Texas

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ichy

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I had to laugh at this. Not only did Lawrence Russel Brewer commit a horrible crime, he then commits a final act of dickheadishness and screws over other TX death row inmates by ordering a huge last meal and not eating it.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/22/justice/texas-last-meal/index.html

As a result it looks like there'll be no more special meals for inmates who're about to get juiced in Texas. Kind of a pity, since it was always ghoulish fun to learn what a dead man ordered.
 
Kind of a pity, since it was always ghoulish fun to learn what a dead man ordered.
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Ah, you can't get your rocks off of just the execution itself. You needed this little bit to get you over the top.

Stay classy.
 
Macamus Prime said:
Stay classy.
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Oh the irony!!!

On topic, I always thought the "tradition" of a last meal was a good idea. I think its a way of showing civility. Yes, the condemned is about to be executed but we don't go about it like old Roman times in the Coliseum or exploiting it on reality TV. This was one way of trying to keep the whole procedure respectful.
 
I read what the guy ordered, and wholly crap!

I would keep the last meal, but limit it to something that is actually consumable by a person. Even if the guy tried, there is no way he could have eaten everything he ordered unless his last meal was 12 hours, and he got all day to consume it all.
 
Macamus Prime said:
I would try to be more like you guys, but I can't see myself jerking off to human suffering like most of you do.
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Jerking off?

That's about all you do here. I've yet to see a post by you of any substance.

Your posts tell more about you than you may wish to acknowledge. And unless you're really hiding something, it's pretty damn boring and mundane. You're not living up to your avatar, not even close.

Fern
 
Atreus21 said:
Seriously, nothing gets me hot like someone else suffering. It's such a guilty pleasure.
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*shrug*

I freely admit that I get a certain sick pleasure when evil people are made to suffer, and I particularly enjoy reading the perverse little details such as what a condemned man ate before he was fried. Judge away.
 
Well seeing as how James Byrd got a last meal of asphalt and unimaginable pain I somehow don't feel bad if his killers die hungry.
 
ichy said:
Well seeing as how James Byrd got a last meal of asphalt and unimaginable pain I somehow don't feel bad if his killers die hungry.
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Then you don't really understand our justice system. It is not to provide eye for an eye retribution for a crime. James Byrd was the victim of a horrid act but when the perpetrators were arrested and tried it was not The Family of James Byrd v the killers but the People of Texas v the killers. The tradition of the last meal for the condemned has a long history and it seems to me somewhat arbitrary to do away with it because one person abused it and allowed a politician to demagogue it as an issue.
 
Linflas said:
Then you don't really understand our justice system. It is not to provide eye for an eye retribution for a crime. James Byrd was the victim of a horrid act but when the perpetrators were arrested and tried it was not The Family of James Byrd v the killers but the People of Texas v the killers. The tradition of the last meal for the condemned has a long history and it seems to me somewhat arbitrary to do away with it because one person abused it and allowed a politician to demagogue it as an issue.
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This. I don't oppose setting some reasonable limits, but this seems like two dick moves rather than one.
 
"It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege. One which the perpetrator did not provide to their victim," Whitmire wrote.
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What if they did? 😵
 
Linflas said:
Then you don't really understand our justice system. It is not to provide eye for an eye retribution for a crime. James Byrd was the victim of a horrid act but when the perpetrators were arrested and tried it was not The Family of James Byrd v the killers but the People of Texas v the killers. The tradition of the last meal for the condemned has a long history and it seems to me somewhat arbitrary to do away with it because one person abused it and allowed a politician to demagogue it as an issue.
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I'm well aware of the fact that executions aren't there just to provide revenge for the family. If that had been the case then the perp in this case would've been slowly tortured to death. Still, I see no reason to go out of the way to make it nicer for them.

If we really wanted to be nice about it we'd bring back the tradition of the warden sharing a couple slugs of whiskey with the condemned man before he was executed. Lord knows that if I had to walk to my own death I'd rather do it with a few stiff drinks in me!
 
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