Can a prisoner on death row ask anything he wants for his last meal?
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wickedwillie
ANSWERS: 7
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As long as it is actually food...You can't ask for dog or cat or anything like that... :)
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I think so, within reason. For example, a death row inmate in Tennessee could not ask for a special kind of fresh fish only available in Antartica between dusk and midnight on the first full moon of even years. LOL I think so long as its pretty easy to get, they can.
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Pretty much, there was once a scientist that found out that if he put enough potassium in his body he could nutrualize the deadly chemicals injected into him. So he ate like thirty banannas, it worked for a couple minutes.
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YES, YES, YES. The answer will always be yes. It depends on what they ask.
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No. The cost of the mail cannot exceed a set amount (state-governed -- in Tennessee it's $20), and it has to be eaten by the inmate. http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070508/NEWS03/70508091/1001/NEWS" Today, Tennessee death row inmate Workman was put to death by lethal injection, but his last meal request was turned down: he requested a pizza be delivered to a homeless person for his last meal. The prison declined to fulfill his last meal request as tax dollars fund these meals and taxpayers didn't authorize their funds to go to "charity" on behalf of inmates.
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Yes, but "The final meal requested may not reflect the actual final meal served." Source: Texas Department of Criminal Justice FORMER website. This sentence is quoted in 118 places on the web (google query). However, "authorities do their best to fulfill the inmates' requests." "We give them what they ask for but only if it's available in the prison cafeteria - and we don't have T-bone steaks for inmates" Larry Todd, a former official with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. "Sometimes, if an inmate has been cooperative and asks for a particular kind of fruit that's out of season, the chaplain will go to a special market and get it for him," Todd says. Quoted from: http://venus.soci.niu.edu/~archives/ABOLISH/feb04/3190.html Other interesting sources: Dead Man Eating Site, with a list of last meals: http://www.deadmaneating.com/dmearch.html Interview of James Marsh and Mats Bigert who made documentary movies on the subject: http://www.uks.no/uksforum/arkiv/3499/html/last_supper1.html
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A prisoner can ASK, however that doesn't mean the request will be granted. Here in Oklahoma there is a set dollar amount that can be spent. Chicken & cheese burgers seem most popular.
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