Last Meals Research Paper

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Last Meals
The United States has lots of freedoms, and one of those many freedoms is the option to have a last meal before being executed. There are not many limits to what can be served to someone on death row, as long as it fits the guidelines and is not a ridiculous sum of money. Some states, such as Florida limiting it to $40, have a limit already set. When a prisoner on death row chooses their last meal, most of the time it will be large, extravagant, or sometimes just strange.
Some of the most famous prisoners on death row choose their last meal to be very weird. For example, Victor Feguer, the man who was put to death for murder and kidnapping, chose just a single olive for his last meal. He had hundreds of options, and all he chose was just one olive. Angel Nieves Diaz, who was charged with murder, …show more content…

Dennis Wayne Bagwell, who was charged with murder, had medium rare steak, fried chicken breasts and thighs, BBQ ribs, french fries, onion rings, bacon, scrambled eggs with onions, fried potatoes with onions, sliced tomatoes, salad with ranch dressing, two hamburgers, peach pie, milk, coffee, and iced tea with real sugar. Edward Schad, the man executed in Arizona, requested a footlong meatball sub, large fries with ketchup, two ears of corn on the cob, two ounces of cranberry sauce, one slice of apple pie, and a vanilla milkshake. The meal request that caused Texas to stop serving last meals, as discussed earlier, was two chicken fried steaks covered in gravy with sliced onions, a triple meat bacon cheeseburger with fixings on the side, a cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, and jalepenos, a bowl of fried okra with ketchup, a pound of barbecue with half a loaf of bread, three fajitas with fixings, a Meat lovers pizza, three root beers, a pint of Blue Bell vanilla ice cream, and a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts. They brought everything he asked for but said he was not

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