Texas Ends Special "Last Meals" for Death Row Inmates
If only it were as easy to end the death penalty as it was for Texas to end last meals for those about to be executed.
Texas inmates who are set to be executed will no longer get their choice of last meals, after a prominent state senator voiced concern over a request from a man condemned for a notorious race killing.
...It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege," Sen. John Whitmire, chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, wrote in a letter to Brad Livingston, the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Livingston agreed and with one fell swoop of his pen, ended the practice. [More...]
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