(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Prison officials in the US state of Texas have abolished the traditional last meal request for inmates who are facing execution.The move came after a prisoner requested a huge meal then did not eat any of it, saying he was not hungry.Lawrence Russell Brewer was executed on Wednesday for the notorious hate-crime killing of James Byrd Jr in 1998.The abolition followed a complaint by Texan Senator John Whitmire, who called the meal privilege "inappropriate".

Senator Whitmire, a Democrat and chairman of the state Senate Criminal Justice Committee, threatened to introduce legislation if the last meal offer was not withdrawn."Enough is enough," he said. "It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege. It's a privilege which the perpetrator did not provide to their victim."Brad Livingston, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, replied within hours, saying the tradition would be abolished.

Mr Livingston said the inmates would now "receive the same meal served to other offenders on the unit".Brewer's massive order arrived at 16:00 on Wednesday but he told prison officials he was not hungry.It included two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, three fajitas, a meat lover's pizza, a pint of ice cream and peanut butter fudge.Brewer, a white supremacist, was sentenced to death for a high-profile race crime, chaining James Byrd to a pick-up truck and dragging him along a road.Most US states have a last meal tradition but differ in its implementation. Some have a menu, others, like Florida, impose a cost restriction.

Some requests have been unusual.

In 2007, Philip Workman asked for his vegetarian pizza to be given to a homeless person. The request was denied.

James Edward Smith's request for "a lump of dirt" in 1990 was also turned down.

In 2000, Odell Barnes asked for "justice, equality and world peace".

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I think that's a wrong move if I had to die, I would want a nice pancake before that !

If i was about to die, i would tear that shit up. I would demolish all the food lol. God damn now im hungry....

I would ask to eat out my girlfriend. :carling:

I'll have a 16oz Kobe Beef Filet, your finest bottles of Pailloud De Malaville cognac and Chateau Lafleur wine, along with garlic mashed potatoes, a bowl of lobster bisque, 2 pounds of Noka Chocolate, and finally a gallon of milk.

Go out like a boss.

I would ask for a nice steak meal.

GOOD! did any1 even see what that guy did? "tied him up to the back of a pickup and dragged him along the road" people who are being executed dont deserve a last meal,like they killed someone if someone killed your mother and was being executed would u want them to have a last meal?well with me i would want that prick fried by the electric chair.

True but there are also innocent people being sentenced to death, if that was the case, you'd want a last meal ^^

if he was innocent of course,but its pretty hard to be wrongly convicted of tieing some guy up to your bumper and dragging him down the road

If I had to I would order so muchh food just to make them go get it all. Then I would eat it.