The Last Meals Of Death Row Inmates

[Jazzy]

To an inmate waiting for the inevitable conclusion to their sentence, namely death by one of the five legal methods of execution, their last meal is guaranteed to be the best thing to happen to them since they were sent to death row.

Photographer Henry Hargreaves finds the whole practice of public execution to be "a remnant of an earlier era", which compelled him to recreate the last meals ordered by notorious death row inmates like John Wayne Gacy and Timothy McVeigh, photographing the recreated meal next to a card that details info about each prisoner.

Each meal says something about the man who placed the order, and whether they used it to make a profound statement or simply wanted one last chance to chow down the meal will go down in history as part of their dark and morbid story.

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[DrLeftover]

When I was working in Maximum Security in Delaware's largest prison, the condemned inmate could pick anything they wanted- from the regular rotating menu, as per state law, the only difference was they could have it prepared to their liking.

Which meant no mint ice cream.

If I remember correctly the usual request was for either fried chicken or a double hamburger prepared by the evening shift manager.

I worked there from 1986 to 1996, and was on duty for several of the executions.

It isn't something you ever forget.