Gary Carl Simmons executed: Butcher carved up victim in Mississippi with knives. Gary Carl Simmons, 49, convicted of a 1996 murder in MississippiLast words included: 'Now, let’s get it on so these people can go home' By Reuters Reporter and Michael Zennie Published: 16:21 GMT, 21 June 2012 | Updated: 13:57 GMT, 22 June 2012 Repented: Gary Carl Simmons was said to apologize for the grisly murder he committed in 1996 Mississippi executed a grocery store butcher on Wednesday who was found guilty of using his meat carving knives to dismember a man and then scattering the body parts in an alligator-infested bayou in 1996.
Gary Carl Simmons, 49, received a lethal injection at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman and was pronounced dead at 6.16pm, corrections spokesman Adam Lee said. What Death Row Inmates' Last Meals Say About Their Crimes. What can a last meal say about someone sentenced to die?
In some cases, it’s a lot. Take, for instance, the case of Ricky Ray Rector. Rector was convicted of the 1981 murder of a police officer in Arkansas. In the aftermath, Rector shot himself in the head, giving himself brain damage. When it came time to execute him, in 1992, Rector said he’d save an untouched piece of pecan pie “for later.” But last meals can, potentially, tell us more about someone sentenced to die: Whether they think of themselves as innocent or not. Kevin Kniffin, lead author of the study, published in the journal Laws, says that he thinks it’s because people who have admitted guilt are more “comfortable” with their fate. “People who are facing an execution for which they can claim innocence appear to lack an appetite when compared with the rest of the sample, whereas people who have accepted guilt appear relatively more ‘comfortable,’” he said.
Some people have already taken a look at it. Last-meal requests come to an end on Texas death row. Maybe it was the big bowl of fried okra with ketchup.
Then again, it could have been the two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy and onions or the cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, and bell and jalapeno peppers. Something - maybe everything - about condemned killer Lawrence Russell Brewer's requested last meal left Texas Senate Criminal Justice Committee Chairman John Whitmire with a nasty case of heartburn. "It is extremely inappropriate to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege," sniffed Whitmire in a terse Thursday letter to prisons chief Brad Livingston. "I have yielded to TDCJ judgment in the past, but now enough is enough. " If Livingston did not pull the plug on the death-house tradition of customized last meals - thought to date back 87 years - Whitmire pledged to take matters into his own hands in the next legislative session.
Last meal. A condemned prisoner's last meal is a customary part of his or her last day before execution.
Often, the day of or before the appointed time of execution, the prisoner receives a last meal and religious rites, if he or she desires. In the United States, inmates generally may not ask for an alcoholic drink. Other countries have different traditions, such as the "little glass of rum" granted to the condemned in historical France in the minutes before execution, but no formal last meal is offered as they were told of the impending executions only on the fatal morning, generally minutes before the actual event.[1] In many countries, the prisoner may, within reason, select what the last meal will be and the authorities do their best to satisfy the request.
History[edit] The Last Meals Requested by Death Row Inmates Before Their Executions. In certain countries around the world, death row prisoners who are about to face execution are offered a special last meal to eat.
Authorities do their best to accommodate the special food requests, and these choices are often published to the media after the execution is carried out. Photographer Henry Hargreaves decided to do a photo project to document what these last suppers comprised and what they might have looked like. He looked up the requests of some of history’s most notorious executed criminals, recreated those meals, and photographed them. The project is titled “No Seconds.” The photograph above shows the last meal requested by murderer Victor Feguer: a single unpitted olive. Final Meal Requests. Can a prisoner request anything for his last meal? John Allen Muhammad, the "Beltway sniper" who went on a two-week shooting spree in the Washington, D.C., area in 2002 *, was scheduled for execution in Greensville, Va., Tuesday night.
(Update: Virginia executed Muhammad at 9:06 p.m. Tuesday.) Last Meals on Death Row. The Last Meals of Inmates on Death Row. The Craziest Last Meal Requests. What would you request for your last meal?
Sitting on death row, these inmates knew the day and hour of their death, and carefully chose the final morsel of food that would enter their mouths. While some of these requests are pretty bizarre, others are just plain over the top. One prisoner's request was so extravagant that it prompted the state of Texas to stop granting last meal requests. Regardless of what you'd order as your final meal, it's unlikely that you'd ask for anything as strange (or super-sized) as these prisoners did.
These are The Craziest Last Meal Requests. RELATED: When Instagramming Your Meal Leads to PrisonRELATED: The 50 Craziest Prisons and Jails in the World. Dead Man Eating Weblog. Last Meals. Essays In January 1985, Pizza Hut aired a commercial in South Carolina that featured a condemned prisoner ordering delivery for his last meal.
Two weeks earlier, the state had carried out its first execution in twenty-two years, electrocuting a man named Joseph Carl Shaw. Shaw’s last-meal request had been pizza, although not from Pizza Hut. Complaints came quickly; the spot was pulled, and a company official claimed the ad was never intended to run in South Carolina. It’s not hard to understand why Pizza Hut’s creative team thought the ad was a good idea. Kiwi's Death Row meals stir up art world - Entertainment. Kiwi photographer hopes images depicting final prison dinners will allow people to see inmates' human side A New Zealand photographer has recreated the last meals of death row prisoners for a controversial series which has featured at a major international art exhibition.
Gallery Final meals of death row prisoners Henry Hargreaves, a former model and face of Prada, is no stranger to creating a stir in the art world - he has previously produced a series of 3D photos of women's breasts and deep-fried iPads and laptops. Hargreaves, who went to school at Christ's College in Christchurch, has produced a series of photos depicting the last meals that some of the United States' most infamous killers enjoyed before they were executed. "I wanted people to, just for a moment, be able to identify with them as people, rather than just statistics," Hargreaves said. The New York-based photographer took photos related to 12 executions. "I didn't want any moody lighting or anything. Last Meals on Death Row, Texas - Photo Essays. Index. Famous Last Meals - Portraits of Last Requests.