Your last meal request?

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ShawnD1

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A certain brand of hot sauce sold at T&T Supermarket and a spoon so I can eat it straight out of the jar. I'm eating this right now actually. It goes really good with chocolate milk.
 

Renob

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Jun 18, 2000
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My mom's chicken fried steak, with her homemade buttermilk biscuits with white cream gravy and sides of fried okra, fried green tomatoes and mashed taters.... I can then die a happy man.
 

Homerboy

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I think some of you assume they will serve you ANYTHING you ask for. Pretty sure it doesn't work that way :)
 

ichy

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Oct 5, 2006
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I think some of you assume they will serve you ANYTHING you ask for. Pretty sure it doesn't work that way :)

Depends on the state. Maryland doesn't give condemned inmates a special last meal, they get whatever crap the prison is serving that day. Other states are much more generous.

Personally I think it's a shame to waste good food on human trash, and no special last meal is the way to go. Apparently back when France had the death penalty they'd give the condemned man a couple slugs of cognac and a last cigarette along with the opportunity to write a final letter or two.
 

Bateluer

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Jun 23, 2001
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I think some of you assume they will serve you ANYTHING you ask for. Pretty sure it doesn't work that way :)

Was going to ask this. Pretty sure there are stipulations on what they're willing to do/spend. Some of the last meals are as simple as bacon and eggs, some as odd a a single unpitted olive. Most are pretty run of the mill.

Wonder if you could get a bottle of hard liquor for your last meal?
 

Terzo

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Depends on the state. Maryland doesn't give condemned inmates a special last meal, they get whatever crap the prison is serving that day. Other states are much more generous.

Personally I think it's a shame to waste good food on human trash, and no special last meal is the way to go. Apparently back when France had the death penalty they'd give the condemned man a couple slugs of cognac and a last cigarette along with the opportunity to write a final letter or two.

And here I thought we didn't have a death penalty...isn't that why they decided to try the sniper from 2002 in VA, so they could ask for the death penalty?
 
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JulesMaximus

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Jul 3, 2003
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Actually the dinner I had last night couldn't get much better. Chicken fingers, fries, and red bull and vodka.

Set your sights low and you'll never be disappointed. Of course, you'll never know what good food tastes like either.
 

ichy

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And here I thought we didn't have a death penalty...isn't that why they decided to try the sniper from 2002 in VA, so they could ask for the death penalty?

Maryland technically still has the death penalty, although for all practical purposes it doesn't exist here anymore. They've only carried out five executions since the DP was reinstated, and one of those was a volunteer. Since I've lived here there have been two executions, Steven Oken in 2004 and Wesley Baker in 2005. Oken was a monster, truly one of the worst of the worst, while Baker was a run of the mill criminal who shot a woman in an armed-robbery gone bad and was very unlucky in the courts.

The reason that John Allen Muhammed was tried in VA was because the way MD's death penalty statute is written he wasn't eligible for it since he wasn't the triggerman. In MD even if you're guilty of Murder One under the felony murder rule you aren't DP eligible unless you're a "principle in the first degree" (aka triggerman.) The only exception to this is in murder for hire cases. VA also follows through on its death sentences, whereas most MD death sentences languish forever in appeals before some pro-criminal judge overturns them.