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DEATH ROW'S STRANGE LAST MEAL REQUESTS

Added on: 29th Dec 2015

 

MARION ALBERT PRUETT

roast duck

The last meal request of inmate Marion Albert Pruett starts off this list

with enough food to feed a marauding army. Originally, Pruett said

he was intending to share the meal with another inmate who would

be executed the same day. He requested a Pizza Hut stuffed crust

pizza; four Burger King Whoppers; a large order of French fries;

three two-litre bottles of Pepsi; fried eggplant; fried squash;

fried okra; and a whole pecan pie. He wanted to request roast

duck but didn’t believe the prison would cook it for him.

 

 

PHILIP WORKMAN

vegetarian pizza

Philip Workman’s last meal request is one of the most bizarre on

this list. Workman, who was executed by the state of Tennessee

in 2007, asked the prison to give a large vegetarian pizza to a

homeless person in Nashville, declining his own meal. Though

the prison refused, many other people across Tennessee fulfilled
his wish and took hundreds of pizzas to homeless shelters

on his execution day.

 

 

TED BUNDY

Ted_Bundy_headshot

Well-known American serial killer Ted Bundy didn’t have an unusual

last meal request – but we thought you might like to know what he

asked for and what is standard if a prisoner declines a special meal.

Bundy was thus given the standard last meal: a medium-rare steak,

eggs over-easy, hash browns, toast with butter and jelly, milk

and juice. It’s said he did not eat it.

 

 

Joseph Mitchell Parsons

Joseph Mitchell Parsons

Joseph Mitchell Parsons was executed by the state of Utah in 1999

but not before he ate his requested last meal of three Burger King

Whoppers, two large orders of fries, a chocolate shake and chocolate

chip ice cream, and a pack of grape Hubba Bubba bubble gum.

He requested to share the meal with his brother and cousin.

 

 

THOMAS J. GRASSO

Thomas J. Grasso

Executed by the state of Oklahoma in 1995, Thomas J. Grasso

also ordered a hefty menu. His last meal request included: two dozen

steamed mussels; two dozen steamed clams; half-a-dozen barbecued

spare ribs; a Burger King double cheeseburger; two strawberry

milkshakes; half a pumpkin pie with whipped cream; and diced

strawberries. Grasso also ordered a 16-ounce can of spaghetti and

meatballs, later complaining that he asked for Spaghetti-O’s,

not just spaghetti.

 

 

JAMES EDWARD SMITH

compost dirt

One of the strangest last meal requests on our list, inmate James

Edward Smith asked for a pile of dirt. The prison denied his request

and he ended up settling on a cup of yogurt.

 

 

ADOLF HITLER

hitler leaving nazi party meeting

Though not a last meal request as Hitler was not captured alive, as

with Bundy we thought you might like to know what was his final

meal. On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler realized the war was lost and

his Third Reich was over. Hitler ate some sort of pasta (spaghetti or

lasagne) with a light sauce before he and his new wife

Eva Braun took their cyanide pills.

 

 

BARTON KAY KIRKHAM

ice cream assortment

Executed in 1958, Barton Kay Kirkham asked for his last meal to be

pizzas and ice cream, “Because you get cheese, meat, and

everything else in one meal. Not so much fuss.”

 

 

DOBIE GILLS WILLIAMS

chocolate bar pieces

Following the ice cream theme, Louisianan Dobie Gillis Williams

asked for a sugar rush of ice cream and twelve chocolate bars.

 


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