Texas Prisons End Special Last Meals for Inmates After 'Ridiculous' Request

[djones520]

It's a last gesture of humanity in the face of death. Compared to the cost of keeping a condemned prisoner sitting around for years and litigating all his appeals, the cost of the meal is trivial. This ban is too much like the ChiCom practice of billing the next-of-kin for the cost of the bullet, inhuman Socialist bureaucracy carried to an extreme.

I think that's the best light to put the idea in.

I'm not shedding any tears about them losing it though.

[Odysseus]

I think that's the best light to put the idea in.

I'm not shedding any tears about them losing it though.

Personally, I have no problem with the last meal, but I'd have made him eat it. All of it.

[Wei Wu Wei]

Last meal is ridiculous. What right does the inmate have. If he tried that shit in a commie country, they would strap him down, knock all his teeth out and force feed him. Might not even need a bullet to the head.

In almost every advanced country in the world there is no death penalty. We are on par with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and China when it comes to "criminal justice"

[Rockntractor]

In almost every advanced country in the world there is no death penalty. We are on par with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and China when it comes to "criminal justice"

How odd, you libtards usually like everything the Mooseslums and Chicoms do.

[Wei Wu Wei]

How odd, you libtards usually like everything the Mooseslums and Chicoms do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITBGjNEp08

[Tipsycatlover]

Mexico doesn't have a death penalty. They are so kindly, they don't even have life! No one can serve more than 40 years, and we KNOW what a civilized place mexico is.

[Novaheart]

Mexico doesn't have a death penalty. They are so kindly, they don't even have life! No one can serve more than 40 years, and we KNOW what a civilized place mexico is.

There is a body of thought in corrections that eliminating death penalty and life sentences serves the process and management of corrections.

I think it's pretty much a given the that DP will disappear in the US. As more and more places stop doing it, extraditions become more difficult. We end up taking the DP off the table for a foreign national in exchange for his return to the US to stand trial.

At some point, probably already, the DP will cross the line and become "unusual" so "cruel" can't be far behind.

[Odysseus]

There is a body of thought in corrections that eliminating death penalty and life sentences serves the process and management of corrections.

I think it's pretty much a given the that DP will disappear in the US. As more and more places stop doing it, extraditions become more difficult. We end up taking the DP off the table for a foreign national in exchange for his return to the US to stand trial.

At some point, probably already, the DP will cross the line and become "unusual" so "cruel" can't be far behind.

The death penalty offends the sensibilities of American and European elites who are as far removed from crime as it is possible to be. I suspect that even in those so-called "advenced" countries, people who do suffer from the depredations of criminals and who do not romanticize them as revolutionary outlaws (Wei, for example), tend to favor the death penalty.

[Elspeth]

Did the condemned give their victims a last meal...?

Did they drive them to Burger King or Wendy's before putting a cap in their ass..?

Nope. (Channeling my Chuck Testa..)

Same prison meal like everyone else..

The final meal isn't really about the prisoner. It's about those carrying out the execution and about exorcising some of the guilt that they will inevitably feel about killing another human being.

The criminal may have raped and killed toddlers and the execution may be entirely justified by state law, but decent humans can't help feeling a sense of atavistic fear about killing a person. Even those who are totally in favor of the death penalty for violent, horrific crimes, can be deeply affected, get nightmares, feel a residual sense of guilt.

A last meal and a clean needle are rituals that surround a gruesome task. These rituals allow both the executioner and society as a whole (in whose name the needle is stuck into the vein) to separate this kind of killing from that done by the criminal himself.

Taking away the last meal shows a hardening of the moral arteries which may lead to more discomfort with the process. My guess is that, after an execution without it, the last meal or a replacement for it will return.

[newshutr]

The final meal isn't really about the prisoner. It's about those carrying out the execution and about exorcising some of the guilt that they will inevitably feel about killing another human being.

The criminal may have raped and killed toddlers and the execution may be entirely justified by state law, but decent humans can't help feeling a sense of atavistic fear about killing a person. Even those who are totally in favor of the death penalty for violent, horrific crimes, can be deeply affected, get nightmares, feel a residual sense of guilt.

A last meal and a clean needle are rituals that surround a gruesome task. These rituals allow both the executioner and society as a whole (in whose name the needle is stuck into the vein) to separate this kind of killing from that done by the criminal himself.

Taking away the last meal shows a hardening of the moral arteries which may lead to more discomfort with the process. My guess is that, after an execution without it, the last meal or a replacement for it will return.

Meh...bread and water..nothing more.