They're surely going to die, they might as well get that last meal.

And so your assessment of the entire state, based upon your spending 3-4 weeks a year here are that we are all self-centered and compassionless?

Look I can dig that you don't agree with the Death Penalty or that you don't like/want to live in Texas, THESE are totally understandable feelings/beliefs.  To demonize the people of an entire state because your political views are different though...  Really?  

That's all I'm really challenging you on though - that assessment.  Whatever your personal beliefs/politics are, they are yours and I wouldn't try to disuade you from them.

perhaps you misunderstood what i wrote earlier.  i'm not making judgments based on 3-4 weeks a year.  i'm making comarisions between those 3-4 weeks a year and the 3-4 weeks i spend in other parts of the US, the 3-4 weeks I spend in europe, and the 2-3 weeks in asia.  the lack of respect i find in texans (especially when on a professional level) is why i'm glad i don't live there.

I'm against killing people in the name of the law... Anyways, If they're gonna be executed either way, I say why not give them a last meal? Doesn't cost THAT much imo

But let me make one thing clear, I have no sympathy for these criminals whatsoever nor do I feel bad for them. These are extremely dangerous people who have committed many horrible and outrageous crimes

Good god man, you can't go TWO sentences without contradicting yourself. In sentence one you acknowledge that murder is not the same action as killing someone for murder. Then in sentence two you claim it is hypocritical, or the same. Cognitive dissonance much? Do you even realize that your 2 sentences are contradictory?

I don't see the problem here. If you did something bad enough to get on death row than you deserve nothing.

This is absolutely a dick move. If anything it's the sort of reaction Whitmore was probably hoping for.

@ vlad, they got to taste it and enjoy the food. I think that despite the horrible crimes MOST of these people have committed, when you're executing someone a little courtesy is called for. 

I can, its just that you are either seeing some unexistant point, or you are totally missing mine. I am all for harsh punishment of a said action, just not the one in which person is killed. Taking away human life is never acceptable, except in self defence and saving innocent life.Whoever does it for any other reason should be severely punished. However, a convict on life sentence cant do any more harm to the society, and if the person he/she killed is already dead(duh), killing a convict wont bring the victim back, so there is no point

I am all down for showing some courtesy, the moment there is even a tiny, miniscule, chance that they showed some courtesy to whoever they killed. If not, no point in wasting good food and money on someone who will be dead anywho, the most literal situtation you can come to call a "waste."

You could have just said "no, i don't see the contradiction in what I said." and it would have been shorter. You said it was hypocritical, saying that the two actions, execution and murder, are the same. However, we agreed that an action has two parts, purpose and consequence. Execution and murder have the same consequence, yes, however the purposes are VERY different, making the actions different and therefore not hypocritical.

Killing the convict is just to make sure society knows what will happen when you do something heinous. Even monkeys who get shocked every time an object is touched learn not to touch said object. It's negative reinforcement for all of society.