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The Last Meals Project is a 28 page website. It shows a picture of an executed person, along with a picture of the last meal. TLMP does not support the death penalty. HT to Andrew Sullivan. Pictures are from The Library of Congress. Part two of this feature is a repost of a Chamblee54 post about last meals.
The first executee featured is Ted Bundy (steak, eggs, hash browns, coffee). Page four is Karla Faye Tucker (garden salad with ranch dressing, a peach, a banana), the first Texas person. More people are offed by the State of Texas than any other state, as well as the European continent. Another celebrity is Timothy McVeigh (two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream). Mr. McVeigh is listed for Indiana, when he was processed by the U.S. Government.
Page five is a list of supplies for “lethal injection”. It shows sodium thiopental, which is no longer used in executions. The total cost of supplies for a chemical execution is said to be $86.08.
Aileen Carol Wuornos (1 cup of coffee). James David Autry (hamburger, french fries, Dr. Pepper). Odell Barnes Jr. (justice, equality, world peace). Gary Leon Brown (ice cream sandwich). Reginald Lenard Reeves (four pieces of fried chicken, two cokes). Stacy Lamont Lawton (one jar of dill pickles). Victor Feguer (a single unpitted olive).
Page 25 makes the point that $100 million a year is spent in the USA seeking the death penalty. It is a jobs program for the legal industry. Page 20 is devoted to Jonathan Wayne Nobles of Texas, For his last meal, he requested the Eucharist Sacrament.

There is a story of a man who was afraid of mushrooms, but ordered them for his last meal. The details of a condemned man’s last meal are part of the death penalty lifestyle. The State of Texas used to document the last meals on a website, but that has been discontinued.
A yahoo page about last meals has a quote from the former warden of the prison at Jackson, Georgia. The facility at Jackson is the site for executions. The name of the former warden is Fred Head.
Slate.com had a story about last meals recently. Some details about what can and cannot be ordered were shown, and some of the shortcuts some states…notably Virginia…take. A famous execution in Arkansas was remembered. This execution was authorized by Governor Bill Clinton. “In 1992, Arkansas convict Ricky Ray Rector, who had brain damage from shooting himself in the head after killing a police officer, ate a final meal of steak, fried chicken, and cherry Kool-Aid, but famously said he wanted to save his pecan pie for later.”
In nearby Oklahoma, Jimmy Dale Bland was processed June 26, 2007. Mr. Bland had terminal lung cancer, and would die within six months anyway. His last meal was “hot and spicy chicken breast, two slices of sausage pizza with extra cheese, a slice of German chocolate cake, a pint of French vanilla ice cream and a Dr. Pepper.” Also in Oklahoma was the final lifestyle choice of Thomas Grasso, on March 20, 1995. The final words of Mr. Grasso were “Please tell the media, I did not get my Spaghetti-O’s, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know.”
Ricky Lee Sanderson, in North Carolina turned down a final meal on Jan. 30, 1998. “I didn’t take [the last meal] because I have very strong convictions about abortion and the 33 million babies that have been aborted in this country. Those babies never got a first meal and that’s why I didn’t take the last in their memory.”
In 1983, Robert Dale Conklin had a dispute with a friend. Mr. Conklin killed his good buddy, cut the remains into little pieces, and left them in a dumpster. The fact that the deceased was an attorney did not justify this action, and the State of Georgia executed Mr. Conklin in 2005. PG is confident that this execution has a strong deterrent value.
At the time of his indiscretion, Mr. Conklin was a manager at a McDonalds, and he knew his food. For his final meal, Mr. Conklin got ” a filet mignon wrapped with bacon; de-veined shrimp sautéed in garlic butter with lemon; baked potato with butter, sour cream, chives and real bacon bits; corn on the cob; asparagus with hollandaise sauce; French bread with butter; goat cheese; cantaloupe; apple pie; vanilla bean ice cream and iced tea. Prison officials said he ate the entire meal, cleaning two plates.”