After a person is found guilty of a capital offense in the United States, the judge will give the jury the option of imposing a death sentence or life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Even the most bizarre death row last meals make sense, because how can you restrict yourself to small portions when you know it's the last food you'll ever eat?
So, once an execution date is set, the condemned prisoner undergoes a customary ritual preceding execution, which is their last meal. Different countries have different traditions in this regard. In historical France, the condemned were given a "little glass of rum" but no formal last meal in the minutes before execution.
Here are some weirdest requests from criminals for their last meal.
VICTOR HARRY FEGUER
Victor Harry Feguer was an accused murderer, and the very last federal prisoner in the US to be executed before Furman V. Georgia's moratorium on the death penalty, and the last man to be killed in Iowa.
Feguer was a drifter, a Michigan native. Feguer arrived in Dubuque, Iowa in the summer of 1960 and rented a room in a decrepit boarding house. Shortly after arriving, Feguer started phoning the doctors from the local Yellow Pages alphabetically and found Dr. Edward Bartels. A woman needs medical care, Feguer said. Feguer kidnapped him and murdered him in Illinois when Dr. Bartels arrived. In a cornfield with a single gunshot on his head, Bartels' body was found there. A few days later, after trying to sell Dr. Bartels' car, Feguer was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama.
Officials believe that Dr. Bartels was abducting and killed by Feguer to gain access to drugs which Bartels could have taken in the treatment of patients. Since Feguer carried his hostage across state lines, federal charges against Feguer were lodged. In his defense, Feguer claimed that Bartels had actually been murdered by a Chicago drug addict Feguer met in Dubuque. In the Mississippi River, Feguer asserted he had killed the drug addict.
"He asked for a single olive with the pit in it for his last meal."
If you look up Feguer, he's the type of guy who roams around the street with his science experiment that will cure your neighbor if he was sick. He can be a psychopath which will be pretty awkward if he was a town's doctor and the only doctor in town. Like I would just rather drive miles rather than go to his clinic.
And by the looks of his last meal, you can say that he's really unpredictable. Like why, would you order a single olive as the last meal that you will ever eat on Earth? That doesn't sound right, though it is interesting.
MARION ALBERT PRUETT
This serial killer was executed by lethal injection in Arkansas. For the murder of Bobbie Jean Robertson, a commodity store clerk in fort Smith, Arkansas, on 12 October 1981, Marion Pruett was condemned to death. She was one of five or so persons killed by Pruett, three of whom were killed that week.
Marion Pruett well knows that the Arkansas commodities agent Bobbie Jean Robertson, and two other Colorado officers have been killed, kidnapped, and killed by Peggy Lowe, a Mississippi credit officer. In New Mexico, he also killed his wife.
He was found dead in Rio-Rancho, New Mexico, in April 1981, his common-law wife, Pamela Sue Barker, also known as Michelle Lynn Pearson. She was blinking with a hammer and was burned. She was burned.
Pruett took Robertson from the convenience shop in Fort Smith where she worked, took her behind the shop to a wooded area, and shot her. He asked a Mississippi daily for 20,000 dollars in death row to reveal Barker's place (his offer was refused) and to reveal a Florida victim's body's location in exchange for a paid Geraldo appearance.
"His meal was a stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut, four Burger King Whoppers, a large order of French fries, three two-liter bottles of Pepsi, a bucket of ice, a bottle of ketchup, salt, fried eggplant, fried squash, fried okra, and a pecan pie."
This meal makes my stomach growl. Even though I don't really like some of the vegetables mentioned, I would still probably eat them on death row. What got into me when I saw his last meal was that it kind of displayed how much power he wanted during his life. He is not the kind of person that sticks to one goal and even if he sticks to one, he does things that might be surprising for most.
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
After the Oklahoma City bombing, Timothy McVeigh was an American terrorist who killed 168 people and injured 680 others. Before the attack of September 11, the bombing was the deadliest act of terrorism in the USA, remaining, until now, the most fatal act of domestic terrorism in the USA. He was killed in Indiana when he was 33 years of age by lethal injection. For 168 counts of murder, he was sentenced to death.
"Mcveigh requested 2 pints of mint chocolate ice cream."
Well, I wouldn't say that this is weird at all. Like I would order this one if my breath is only seconds to go before it run out. But what makes it weird compared to others is that "who" ordered this one. This is not likely to be ordered by someone who just made a terrorist attack in America. You can tell that he probably never grew up as he supposed to. I'm not saying that ice creams are not for adults too, but to order "just" ice cream is really surprising at all. It doesn't rhyme with what he did.
If you want to read more about the last meals, here is the link for my other article:
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