Texas stops giving "last meals" before they murder people

[bricolage]

firing squad is definitely the most romantic.

[Rafiq]

I would order the most expensive meal ever. After I would escape.

What a big middle finger to the face

[redtex]

a pound of barbecue what?!?!

In Texas it is assumed to be beef brisket unless otherwise specified.

Eh? Are you allowed to pick your method of execution?

Not in Texas. It's lethal injection only now. Previously it was electric chair only, but we've become more civilized since then.

Might I add that I am disgusted with the death penalty.

[Property Is Robbery]

Everyone should get a last meal except nazi skinheads

[Ocean Seal]

It's ridiculous, and it will probably save no more than a few thousand dollars per year

Its not about the money. Its about them dehumanizing the prisoners as a way of promoting retributive justice. Its about the absolute authority of the state.

[Seth]

Aside from the money factor, you can see why the state of Texas is butthurt. The last meal traditionally means that the condemned accepts the sentence. So ordering all that stuff and then not eating it is like giving the state the middle finger.

[Catma]

I kept typing all this shit, but I realized it sounded disgusting in light of the fact that the death penalty should be abolished.

[the last donut of the night]

Everyone should get a last meal except nazi skinheads

nobody should get an execution. period

[MarxSchmarx]

I found this eerily inspiring:

In 2007, Philip Workman asked for his vegetarian pizza to be given to a homeless person.

Even though it was denied, that's a really powerful gesture.

[Nox]

firing squad is definitely the most romantic.

In all honesty, firing squad is probably the quickest, most painless death there is.

With the lethal injection, you are just led there strapped down for 10 minutes while the injection slowly paralyses and kills you.

With electrocution, it hurts alot for the first few seconds until you die.

With hanging, it hurts alot when you break your neck and you don't always instantly die.

Gas chamber isn't too bad either, but I would be very uncomfortable struggling to breathe as I'm about to die.

[MarxSchmarx]

In all honesty, firing squad is probably the quickest, most painless death there is.

With the lethal injection, you are just led there strapped down for 10 minutes while the injection slowly paralyses and kills you.

With electrocution, it hurts alot for the first few seconds until you die.

With hanging, it hurts alot when you break your neck and you don't always instantly die.

Gas chamber isn't too bad either, but I would be very uncomfortable struggling to breathe as I'm about to die.

Apparently with lethal injection, they use a coctail used by anaesthesiologists that doesn't work on some people.

What's scary is that if the cocktail doesn't work, you are conscious and aware of all that is happening, but can't express it. The pain of the drug that stops your heart is excruciating unless you are put under.

terrifying.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0424091513.htm

[Klaatu]

So instead of a last meal, the prisoner should be allowed to at least get drunk or smoke a few doobies.

[Seth]

In all honesty, firing squad is probably the quickest, most painless death there is.

With the lethal injection, you are just led there strapped down for 10 minutes while the injection slowly paralyses and kills you.

With electrocution, it hurts alot for the first few seconds until you die.

With hanging, it hurts alot when you break your neck and you don't always instantly die.

Gas chamber isn't too bad either, but I would be very uncomfortable struggling to breathe as I'm about to die.

en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Nitrogen_asphyxiation

^That sounds like it could be the most humane.

Thanks for the advice btw.

[Lanky Wanker]

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.

Sounds like he was stoned out of his mind when he looked at the menu.

Prison officials said Brewer didn't eat any of it.

This was 4 hours later when he came down.

[Yuppie Grinder]

>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.

hahahahahahhaha

[Klaatu]

en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Nitrogen_asphyxiation

^That sounds like it could be the most humane.

A few sleeping pills with some good painkillers should be given first, about an hour beforehand.
Then he won't feel or know a thing. Any pain at all is cruel.

[citizen of industry]

it is apparently rooted in superstition about meals warding off possible haunting by condemned people once they are put to death.

Now look Texas, you're going to have a ghost problem.

Years ago, a Texas inmate even requested dirt for his final meal.

Ha! I wonder if they delivered?

[piet11111]

With hanging, it hurts alot when you break your neck and you don't always instantly die.

Hanging can be botched if the rope is too short you do not have enough momentum in the drop to break your neck if its too long your head pops off.
I read this on that botched death penalty site.

[Nox]

en.wikipedia.org/wik i/Nitrogen_asphyxiation

^That sounds like it could be the most humane.

Thanks for the advice btw.

Seems interesting.

I don't understand though, how can your body be suffocating without you feeling a thing?

[RedAnarchist]

I found this eerily inspiring:



Even though it was denied, that's a really powerful gesture.

Afterwards, a lot of people donated vegetarian pizzas to homeless shelters in a kind gesture which is lost on the sort of people who like murdering people in the name of "justice".