Last Meals

When Texas stopped granting last meals to death row prisoners

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The last last meal granted to a prisoner in the state of Texas went to Lawrence Russell Brewer, who requested two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a large bowl of fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, and jalapenos, a meat…