In September 2011, the state of Texas abolished all special last-meal requests after condemned prisoner
Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a huge last meal and did not eat any of it, saying he was not hungry. His last-meal request was for a plate of two
chicken-fried steaks with gravy and sliced onions, a triple-patty bacon cheeseburger, a cheese
omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, jalapeños, a bowl of fried
okra with ketchup, a pound of barbecued meat with half of a loaf of white bread, a portion of three
fajitas, a
meat-lover's pizza (topped with
pepperoni, ham, beef, bacon, and sausage), a
pint of
Blue Bell, a serving of ice cream, a slab of
peanut-butter fudge with crushed peanuts, and a serving equivalent to three
root beers. The abolition followed a complaint by a
Texas Senator,
John Whitmire (Democrat, of Houston), who called the meal "inappropriate".
[5][6][3][7] The tradition of customized last meals is thought to have been established around 1924 in Texas.
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