Texas Drops Special Last Meals for Death Row Inmates
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Le Texas est cruelle
Just sell Texas to Mexico or something...
[QUOTE=Lambeth;32443473]Le Texas est cruelle[/QUOTE]
Damnit, now you've made me imagine someone having thirteen kilograms of almond croissants as their last meal.
Also, "oui."
This is almost as ridiculous as the penalty itself.
[quote]Lawrence Russell Brewer ordered two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet with other ingredients, a large bowl of fried okra with ketchup, three fajitas, a pint of Blue Bell ice cream and a pound of barbecue with a half-loaf of white bread.
The meal request also included a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts, a pizza and three root beers.[/quote]
[quote]Brewer declined to eat the last meal Wednesday, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark.[/quote]
What a waste, that meal sounds good.
I know they want to lower the obesity rates but this is not the way you do it
Seriously, do you really have so many people getting killed by the government you can't give them their last meal?
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"It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege. One which the perpetrator did not provide to their victim"[/QUOTE]
Yeah, let's lower to their level! That'll show them us killing them is different from them killing other people!
Giving someone a final meal and allowing them to enjoy it just goes to show a tiny bit of honor.
[QUOTE=Pikachu231;32442968]So, we should let them starve before they die? That's seems logical, in Texas of course.
It's only giving a human being one last meal before he dies, what's so "extremely inappropriate" about that?[/QUOTE]
They're sentenced to death because they took someone's right to life. They didn't give them a special meal, a last word, anything. They simply murdered them, and, as such, gave up all rights they had. If it were my way, they would be murdered in the same way that they murdered their victim.
[QUOTE=rosar0980;32444150]They're sentenced to death because they took someone's right to life. They didn't give them a special meal, a last word, anything. They simply murdered them, and, as such, gave up all rights they had. If it were my way, they would be murdered in the same way that they murdered their victim.[/QUOTE]
And that way, you wouldn't be any better than they are.
Wait, they are being nice last minute? IN TEXAS?? Wow. Um, okay so they eat a lot and get drunk. Aweseom...
Did their victims get to choose their last meal? No, they didn't.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;32443004]Pretty soon Texas will just decide to save money by building a gallows in the square by the courthouse.[/QUOTE]
No, courthouses are too costly.
Let's give the police the power to execute anyone they want
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;32444289]Did their victims get to choose their last meal? No, they didn't.[/QUOTE]
Killing somebody won't change anything, and very rarely does it bring satisfaction to the victims family. The death penalty is pointless and barbaric.
Just how much backwards can America get?
(I know its just Texas and their still a mile away in the crazyness, but damn, the whole country is being run down HARD)
is it just me or is gekkosan one of the worst posters on this fourm
[QUOTE=Zeke129;32444521]No, courthouses are too costly.
Let's give the police the power to execute anyone they want[/QUOTE]
We're venturing into [I]Judge Dredd[/I] territory now.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;32443004]Pretty soon Texas will just decide to save money by building a gallows in the square by the courthouse.[/QUOTE]
Sounds good, gallows are far cheaper than the various chemicals they use for lethal injection. :v:
Hurr durr they didn't give their victims a last meal!
Because we want to be exactly like them don't we
[QUOTE=rosar0980;32444150]If it were my way, they would be murdered in the same way that they murdered their victim.[/QUOTE]
And then YOU would be the murderer, and would be murdered the same way you murdered him. Repeat ad infinatum.
Only in texas.
Can't you just deny certain parts of their requests? I remember reading a list somewhere, and a lot of requests for a smoke with the meal got turned down.
[QUOTE=rosar0980;32444150]They're sentenced to death because they took someone's right to life. They didn't give them a special meal, a last word, anything. They simply murdered them, and, as such, gave up all rights they had. If it were my way, they would be murdered in the same way that they murdered their victim.[/QUOTE]
I know several 8-year-olds who would vehemently agree with your concept of justice.
[QUOTE=garychencool;32444247]Wait, they are being nice last minute? IN TEXAS?? Wow. Um, okay so they eat a lot and get drunk. Aweseom...[/QUOTE]
Alcohol is generally prohibited in a last meal.
Strikes me as an unnecessary restriction, but whatever.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;32444824]Hurr durr they didn't give their victims a last meal!
Because we want to be exactly like them don't we[/QUOTE]
hurr durr
If we wanted to be exactly like them we would execute them in the same savage way they murdered their [B]innocent[/B] victims. Don't make this out to be more than it is.
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;32445267]
If we wanted to be exactly like them we would execute them in the same savage way they murdered their [B]innocent[/B] victims.[/QUOTE]
right the important part is the method not the killing part
even if the justice system was 100% correct all the time (which it isn't and never will be), the death penalty would still be inexcusable
Texas is full of dumb fucks, but I'm one of those Texan's who's not a dumb fuck.
Please don't sell me.
"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.
wat.
All they are doing is choosing FOOD
so if i kill someone after giving them the last meal they wanted to then would i still get a last meal?
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;32444289]Did their victims get to choose their last meal? No, they didn't.[/QUOTE]
Unless they were in prison with the murderer, I'm pretty sure they were free to choose their last meal.
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