Texas Ends Death Row Special Last Meals

Et nolite timere eos, qui occidunt corpus, animam autem non possunt occidere; sed potius eum timete, qui potest et animam et corpus perdere in gehennam. (Matthew 10:28)

The state of Texas has ended the practice of offering death row inmates their choice of last meal before their deaths, according to BBC News.

Christ said: "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly", see John 10:10.

The Bible is very clear there will always be murderers among us, and that is why Leviticus offers capital punishment.

The last meal given to prisoners before execution is a very old tradition.

Lawrence Brewer's last request was however too extravagant.

Just before he was put to death by lethal injection on Wednesday, he ordered two steaks, a triple-meat cheeseburger, a cheese omelette, a large bowl of fried okra, three fajitas, a pint of ice cream, and a pound (0.45kg) of barbecue meat.

It's not clear how much of that he was actually served, or whether his nerves affected his appetite, but he ate none of it.

From now on, condemned men in Texas will be offered the same cafeteria chow as other prisoners.

As I like old traditions, and it is important we never lose our humanity, I think condemned men still should be offered something extra for their last meal, but there should of course be a limit.

"Lex enim Spiritus vitae in Christo Iesu liberavit te a lege peccati et mortis", Romans 8:2.