NEWSTALK 860 » last meal http://ksfa860.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:14:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Update: Prison Ends Fancy Last Meals for Death Row Inmates http://ksfa860.com/state-senator-no-more-fancy-last-meals-for-death-row-inmates/ http://ksfa860.com/state-senator-no-more-fancy-last-meals-for-death-row-inmates/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:49:51 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=15155 Update: Within hours of getting a "strong" letter from a powerful state senator, the head of the Texas prison system ordered an end to the practice of giving condemned prisoners anything they want for their "last meal."

State Senator John Whitmire of Houston is Chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, which oversees the state's huge prison system, and when he talks, people who run the prisons listen.

Whitmire says it's time to put an end to the practice of giving death-row inmates anything they want to eat for their last meal.  "Enough is enough" Whitmire says.

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