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After Texas abolished last meal requests in 2011, all death row inmates in Texas have been served regular prison food. [103] Name Crime Year Method of execution
The spirit moves on. Death is like eating a prune in the morning. It's a natural function." The day before his scheduled execution, Smith requested a last meal of rhaeakunda dirt. [12] [13] The request was denied by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice because dirt was not included on the list of approved foods.
Six men remain on Indiana’s death row, according to WPTA, an ABC and NBC affiliate in Fort Wayne. The state’s next execution will be that of Benjamin Ritchie, who was convicted of gunning down ...
South Carolina has executed its first death row inmate in 13 years for the murder of a convenience store clerk in 1997. ... Allah’s last meal consisted of two cheeseburgers, fries, a well-done ...
Thomas Joseph Grasso (November 23, 1962 – March 20, 1995) was an American convicted murderer who was executed by the state of Oklahoma for the murder of 87-year-old Hilda Johnson, whom he strangled in Tulsa in December 1990.
An Alabama death row inmate was executed Thursday evening by nitrogen gas, but not before a Tex-Mex-style last meal and a profane rant directed at the execution staff.
What death row inmates can choose for their last meal varies a lot, highlighting American ambivalence around capital punishment. Death penalty in the US: How do Oklahoma's last meal rules compare ...
Philip Ray Workman (June 1, 1953 – May 9, 2007) was a death row inmate executed in Tennessee on May 9, 2007. [1] He was convicted in 1982 for the murder of a police officer following a robbery of a Wendy's restaurant in Memphis, Tennessee, and sentenced to death by lethal injection.