TIL that in September 2011, the state of Texas abolished their longtime tradition of customized last meal requests for condemned prisoners after prisoner Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a very large and expensive meal, but didn’t eat any of it, saying he wasn’t hungry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_meal#Contemporary_restrictions_in_the_United_States
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https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1fp2zrf/til_that_in_september_2011_the_state_of_texas/
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