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Texas Records All Inmates Last Words Before Execution And Puts Them All Online

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Re: Texas Records All Inmates Last Words Before Execution And Puts Them All Online

#31
Those were... exceedingly difficult to read in some instances.

Lots of prayers to god, family, and friends, and family and friends of the perpetrator's victim(s).

But also some really resounding words about the state of justice in our country, and hearing them from some inmates who were in their mid-twenties no less.

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They used to do last meal as well, but I guess they stopped?

They stopped in 2011 after the execution of white supremacist murderer Lawrence Brewer, when he ordered a huge last meal of like a dozen different dishes, then said he wasn't hungry and had it thrown away: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-15034970

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I don't find it more sickening than the death penalty itself, it's just another weird dichotomy in american culture. executing convicts but censoring nipples on TV. I guess every culture has their share of these

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post #8

They used to do last meal as well, but I guess they stopped?

They stopped in 2011 after the execution of white supremacist murderer Lawrence Brewer, when he ordered a huge last meal of like a dozen different dishes, then said he wasn't hungry and had it thrown away: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-15034970

from what i followed, the whole thing was more of a publicity stunt by a politician than anything else, seeing as the last meals were only prepared using prison ingredients anyway

Re: Texas Records All Inmates Last Words Before Execution And Puts Them All Online

#38

Why do this? I'm not sure it serves any good purpose.

Maybe it can help people humanise them a bit? Given another 20-30 years of small things like this, maybe the US could even follow the rest of the developed world and stop executions
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