Special Installment: Maundy Thursday
Used to be that a convict on death row could order a nice last meal. Not any more. At least not in Texas.
More than a decade ago, white supremacist Lawrence Russell Brewer, along with two other men, chained a black man, James Byrd Jr., to the back of his pickup and dragged him to his death down a bumpy road in Texas. For this despicable act, Brewer was executed by that state in September 2011. Hideous as his crime was, it's likely that his fellow inmates on Texas' death row will remember him for another reason as well. Thanks to him, they will not be allowed to order favorite foods for their last meals when their times come.
For his last meal, Brewer requested and received two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, a pound of barbecue with a half loaf of white bread, a cheese omelet with ground beef and vegetables, three fajitas, a meat lover's pizza, a pint of ice cream, a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts and three root beers.
But then he didn't eat any of it.
Learning of this, State Sen. John Whitmire, who chairs the Texas Senate's criminal...
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