• Texas Drops Special Last Meals for Death Row Inmates
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[QUOTE=Kybalt;32445477]so if i kill someone after giving them the last meal they wanted to then would i still get a last meal?[/QUOTE] yeah hey im just gonna rape and murder you do want some taco bell or maybe something from mcdonalds before you die
Good. They dont deserve it.
Don't know about any of you, but if I was about to be executed, eating would be the last thing on my mind. Can't really blame him for not eating it.
[quote]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. Brewer declined to eat the last meal Wednesday, said Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark.[/quote] I can sort of see where they're coming from here.
Most of the death row inmates ordered one hell of a last meal. I can't be the only one who finds it A BIT inappropriate/disrespectful when you've been convicted for a petty robbery-murder and as the last meal choice you go all-out. "Okay, what do you want to eat before you are put to death for the horrible crime that you did?" "OH OH OH I want uhh.. 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. k thx bye"
[QUOTE=Pikachu231;32442968]So, we should let them starve before they die? That's seems logical, in Texas of course.[/QUOTE] They still get fed.
[QUOTE=Venezuelan;32445891]I can sort of see where they're coming from here.[/QUOTE] The answer, as has been done in other states, is just put a monetary limit on how much they can order. Problem solved. [editline]23rd September 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Gekkosan;32445953]Most of the death row inmates ordered one hell of a last meal. I can't be the only one who finds it A BIT inappropriate/disrespectful when you've been convicted for a petty robbery-murder and as the last meal choice you go all-out. "Okay, what do you want to eat before you are put to death for the horrible crime that you did?" "OH OH OH I want uhh.. 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. k thx bye"[/QUOTE] He didn't eat it. He was intentionally being an asshole.
[QUOTE=GunFox;32446011]He didn't eat it. He was intentionally being an asshole.[/QUOTE] Yeah it appears so. But I was talking about in general.
[QUOTE=GunFox;32446011]The answer, as has been done in other states, is just put a monetary limit on how much they can order. Problem solved.[/QUOTE] I agree with that. At the same time I don't think no special requests at all is a breach of rights.
As if there weren't enough reasons to hate Texas already (the first two were a republican presidential candidate and a morbidly obese radio show host).
[QUOTE=Gekkosan;32446055]Yeah it appears so. But I was talking about in general.[/QUOTE] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_meal#Last_meal_requests_by_notable_prisoners[/url] With a few exceptions, they generally seem to make pretty reasonable requests. Often very unusual, but rarely unacceptable.
I expected it to be because Texas has been killing so many people, they simply can't afford to feed them anymore.
[QUOTE=GunFox;32446177][url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_meal#Last_meal_requests_by_notable_prisoners[/url] With a few exceptions, they generally seem to make pretty reasonable requests. Often very unusual, but rarely unacceptable.[/QUOTE] You beat me to reading some of the cases of death row inmates again. It's kind of interesting.. So much crazy killers killing elderly and children.
With the foods he was choosing to eat they could just skip the injection and have him set on the toilet afterwards
This pretty much proves that Texas wants blood more than they want to carry out justice properly. [QUOTE=stewe231;32445404]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.[/QUOTE] Hey, I know a girl from Texas who's lived there since she was born, and she's incredibly liberal and has no accent.
never mind
[QUOTE=GunFox;32445133]Alcohol is generally prohibited in a last meal. Strikes me as an unnecessary restriction, but whatever.[/QUOTE] They don't want them to catch fire.
i'd be a massive dick too if the state was going to murder me
[QUOTE=Zeke129;32444521]No, courthouses are too costly. Let's give the police the power to execute anyone they want[/QUOTE] They don't have that already?
Why am I expecting to see them scrapping away the whole proper execution thing and just draw out a gun and shoot the prisoner between the eye right in his cell ?
[QUOTE=HolyCrusade;32445267]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] jesus christ you people just don't get it do you 1) if you want to kill a killer you're no better than them [I]at all[/I] NO MATTER what your motivation is 2) you're vesting the power to kill an an imperfect, non-transparent, corruptible system. how can you possibly support that idea at all
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;32446945]They don't have that already?[/QUOTE] No, you can't shoot to death anyone for no reason. Though they often find very futile reasons to open fire (hence that kid who ran away from a school bus fight and got shot)
I can vouch for Austin that we're not like the rest of Texas. Plus, Rick Perry has talked about Texas seceding from the US (a while ago). I'm pretty sure he was joking, but I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't.
[QUOTE=Kalibos;32446970]jesus christ you people just don't get it do you 1) if you want to kill a killer you're no better than them [I]at all[/I] NO MATTER what your motivation is 2) you're vesting the power to kill an an imperfect, non-transparent, corruptible system. how can you possibly support that idea at all[/QUOTE] Personally I still support the idea of a death sentence used in the absolutely most desperate cases of totally inhuman hopeless fucks (aka dictators, people ordering and commanding genocides, huge crimes against humanity), because these guys don't deserve a prison cell. This and possibly really hopeless cases of psychopaths and maniacs that only think of killing and that will only take room in Prison/mental institution and put in danger whoever is around.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32447041]Personally I still support the idea of a death sentence used in the absolutely most desperate cases of totally inhuman hopeless fucks (aka dictators, people ordering and commanding genocides, huge crimes against humanity), because these guys don't deserve a prison cell. This and possibly really hopeless cases of psychopaths and maniacs that only think of killing and that will only take room in Prison/mental institution and put in danger whoever is around.[/QUOTE] but WHY do you need to kill them. it's completely unnecessary.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32447041]Personally I still support the idea of a death sentence used in the absolutely most desperate cases of totally inhuman hopeless fucks (aka dictators, people ordering and commanding genocides, huge crimes against humanity), because these guys don't deserve a prison cell. This and possibly really hopeless cases of psychopaths and maniacs that only think of killing and that will only take room in Prison/mental institution and put in danger whoever is around.[/QUOTE] where do you draw the line?
[QUOTE=Kalibos;32447097]where do you draw the line?[/QUOTE] As there will never be cases of murder that will cover a number of victim going from one to one billion, it's unnecessary to draw a precise line especially for this case. For a genocide responsible, the line is pretty much the one that determines if you just killed a few people or triggered a genocide. For a crazy-ass maniac killer, it's pretty much whenever multiple tries failed and there is no hope left of saving the guy.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;32447495]As there will never be cases of murder that will cover a number of victim going from one to one billion, it's unnecessary to draw a precise line especially for this case.[/QUOTE] really, it's unnecessary? how many people need to die before you draw the line between life in prison and execution? how solid do you need the evidence against them to be? [QUOTE=Ganerumo;32447495]For a genocide responsible, the line is pretty much the one that determines if you just killed a few people or triggered a genocide.[/QUOTE] how many is a few? in terms of genocide, a few could be a great many in terms of your run-of-the-mill serial killing. who ultimately has what responsibility, and what happens to each one of them? a board room formulates the plan, others pass it down the ranks to the grunts, and the grunts do the actual dirty work. workers may have to construct the actual means to do it. who is accountable, and to what degree? [QUOTE=Ganerumo;32447495]For a crazy-ass maniac killer, it's pretty much whenever multiple tries failed and there is no hope left of saving the guy.[/QUOTE] who decides that? what gives them the credentials to make that decision? how much time do you spend trying to cure somebody? there are so many things to consider that I don't think most people take into account when they think about capital punishment.
[quote]"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. [/quote] oh my god is this idiot actually trying to make "eye for an eye" policies sound logical?
If I ever got the death penalty i'd go around the prison causing as much mayhem and destruction as possible. I'm gonna die why should I give a fuck? And that is the same mentality the criminal had with not eating what he asked for.
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