Texas: No More Special Last Meals for Death Row Inmates

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spurgeonryan said:
I think that when you are being executed that is your punishment. In my mind these people are being put to death, what could a reasonable last meal really harm. Its kind of a humane act on top of a viscious act on our part as a society. I do not really know if I am for or against the death penalty, but that is not the question here. They are obviously doing it to be cruel though. Its not like a judge is going to say I sentence you to death, with out a last meal! When a prisoner gets it , it is kind of just something to help let them not have a heart attack before the end! Another reason I say it is for cruelty is because they are not trying to balance any budget! Texas is one of the few states that is not suffering to bad of a recesssion, and lets be honest, even if they are the state that executes the most people, how much do a few reasonably priced last meals really cost?

Just to be sure you understood what this is about correctly, they wanna eleminate the special last meals (i.e. death row inmates being able to choose what they eat as a last meal) and give them the standard prison meal. They don't wanna eliminate the last meal alltogether.