Execution Tonight (Last Meals)

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Two Arkansas inmates, Charles Singleton and Karl Roberts are scheduled to be executed tomorrow. Singleton's is a particularly interesting case. Convicted of murder in 1979, he has since been diagnosed as being insane. He has been exercising his right to not take the medication that would keep him sane, thus causing a bit of controversy as its inhumane (or rather more inhumane) for the state to kill the insane.
Anyway, they've chosen their last meals.
Singleton:
Two double cheese, double soybean patty sandwhiches
Fried eggplant, fried green tomatoes and fried sweet potato slices
Barbeque baked beans
Potato salad
Glazed donuts
Two vanilla milkshakes
Two Cokes
Cashews and shelled pecans

Roberts:
Four apples
Four oranges
Four bananas
Two pounds of grapes
Three bottles of water

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:14 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmmm, fried eggplant!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

good to see roberts is eating healthy 'til the end.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

speaking of last meals, huck...

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Singleton is clearly NOT insane. Look at his list! Tasty indeed.

I'm guessing that Roberts is trying to fill himself with water to make the death as messy as possible?

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

<14>I'm too pretty to die!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

there seems to be a high messy poop factor in Singleton's meal as well.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, but that'll take much more time than the water would.

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The doodoofeces, that is.

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

if wanted to leave a mess, it'd be all hot sauce, eggs + alcohol!

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Cashews do it for me in about 45 minutes! Whoop whoop!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I would order switchblade soup and piano wire pasta. I'd go out fightin'.

― andy, Monday, 5 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd order a bottle of tequila.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmmmmm.... tequila.....

― andy, Monday, 5 January 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd order something i could feasibly make love to.

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

like bologna?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Does one ever truly make love to bologna?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

erm, how about a roasted chicken or a watermelon perhaps¿

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I still wanna know why they sterilize the injection area when people are being executed by lethal injection.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

for the people who get paid minimum wage to clean up afterward.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan, it makes for a better show!

― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

they're actually smearing them with hiv.
just in case.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Does one ever truly make love to bologna?

No, bologna is the Divine Brown of lunchmeats.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Why only Last Meals? Why no Last Kegstands or Last Bongrips?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

would you trust a Bongrips from the State of Alabama?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Some pasta and a tissue, please.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

See, in those southern states they order okra and mac & cheese... here in California it's all shallot & new potato tortes, baby green salads with blossoms and pine nuts, a nice wild rice and endive soup... and a nice mango brulee to finish up. With zinfandel.

Hillbillies.

― andy, Monday, 5 January 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

do you guys kill folks in Cali?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

would you trust a Bongrips from the State of Alabama?

But tis better than a Burgerpipe.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

No executions... we try to talk to multiple sex murderers and see if we can't all come to an understanding, holistically, with mutual respect and nuturing.

― andy, Monday, 5 January 2004 21:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Errr... no, that's how they do it in Manitoba. No, we execute insanes sadist freaks every couple years, but you have to be a complete psycho. Unlike Florida, where traffic offenders get the chair.

― andy, Monday, 5 January 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

You left out the part where the executioner says, "Duuuuuuuuuude."

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Unlike Florida, where traffic offenders get the chair.

Wish! No, they bloody don't, Andy. Else, Florida would be a ghost-state, with stationary cars, where you could rollerblade down the highway.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 5 January 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I still wanna know why they sterilize the injection area when people are being executed by lethal injection.

What if the governor were to phone in a pardon just before the doctor administers the lethal injection...and then later the convict develops an abcess where they inserted the needle?

(I am not a lawyer, but I'll assume they were anticipating such a case. Also, they're probably thinking about the doctor's safety, say, if the convict gets disruptive while the needle is being inserted.)

In a related issue, a couple years ago Delaware (?) executed a man by hanging (the state had abolished that form of execution years earlier, but the man had been convicted under the old penalty, and thus had the option to choose that method). So they got out the old gallows...and as part of the preparations, installed no-slip strips on the steps.

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

See Mr. Death by Errol Morris.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a list online a while ago of the meals served to inmates executed in Texas. A surprising number of them requested that their meals be given to the homeless. Intriguing. Many of them also requested cigarettes & alcohol, but were denied their requests.

― Ian Johnsonnn, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"last meal" menus are the most depressing things in the world, looking at them makes me want to cry

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I was very disappointed to learn that you really cannot get anything you want for a last meal. It kind of defeats the purpose of going on a killin spree.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I think its pretty bloody sad that you cant go out on a high, err.. so to speak.

xpost with salmon hehe.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Canada has the death penalty??!?

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I want Pecan Pie to eat afterwards.

― Ricky Ray Rector (daveb), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i'd ask for a hair pie.

― Chris V (Chris V), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

no, no death penalty in canada.

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

SUDDEN Death Penalty in Canada.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

TS: having to put up Celine Dion vs having a death penalty

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

having to put up Celine Dion

Like on your pull-out sofa?

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

celine dion's in vegas now so we get the best of both worlds

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Unless we watch CBC, which seems to air nothing but Celine Dion Concert Specials and Smug Documentaries about the death penalty.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Like on your pull-out sofa?
I thought it was every Canadian's duty to provide safe sanctuary for Celine Dion if she ever called for it?

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a dream that Celine Dion and James Naughtie died last night, very disturbing.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hell, if you're going out, go out in style.

eat raw popcorn. Loads of it.

― Kingfishee (Kingfish), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

And half a cup of peanut oil.

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i wonder if that could actually work

― dyson (dyson), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

only one way to find out!

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Dear Gov. Jeb Bush,

In the interest of science, we the undersigned do hereby request that at your soonest possible convenience...

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

My last meal, assuming no restrictions:

Beef vindaloo
Mexican platter (frijoles, burrito, etc)
#13 from Firenze's in Sarnia, Ontario (finest pizza ever)
and if my stomach hasn't exploded yet, Sara Lee cherry cheesecake

Also, large Irish coffee (bottomless cup) and Thai stick. And finally, what the hell: I'm giving heroin a try.

― ilxor gets into jazz (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 09:57 (fifteen years ago)

I don't think you're allowed even booze with your last meal, which strikes me as enormously unfair.

― Rejoice that you weren't eaten (chap), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 13:50 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, pretty much. I believe Gary Gilmore's lawyer smuggled in a bottle which he shared with everyone, guards included, iirc.

― ilxor gets into jazz (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 26 January 2011 22:30 (fifteen years ago)

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