Before going to execution, they could order whatever they wanted, any culinary delight. Some dishes were puzzling... 
A handful of earth, lobsters, steaks... They had the right to demand anything for their last meal in their lives. Do you think it’s right to feed murderers all sorts of tasty treats before they die?
James Smith 
On March 7, 1983, Smith shot and killed a man during an attempted robbery at the World Trade Center in Houston. And on the same day he was arrested and spent 7 years behind bars. He was executed by lethal injection in 1990.
For his last supper, he asked him to bring him some dirt. Someone, especially impressionable, said that he wanted to complete the voodoo ritual against the jailers, but most likely Smith mocked them. But Smith's request was denied, so he simply ate a glass of yogurt.
Philip Workman 
Workman was convicted of killing a police officer in 1982, but the trial was highly controversial. Five jurors changed their minds after the verdict and found him not guilty. However, this did not stop the Tennessee authorities from executing him.
He was executed only a quarter of a century later - in 2007. And Workman did not order the last dinner for himself. He asked to buy a vegetarian pizza and give it to a homeless person. The prison administration did not satisfy this request, but it became known to the public and on May 9, the day of his execution, hundreds of people across the country ordered pizzas and gave them to the homeless.
Robert Buell 
He was convicted in 1982 for the murder of an 11-year-old girl and waited 20 years for execution. He had a wagonload of time to think through his latest menu. And his request puzzled everyone around him: he ordered one black olive with a pit. The request, of course, was granted, but witnesses to the killer’s last days still do not know what meaning he put into such a strange request.
Ricky Rector 
Ricky killed two people in 1981 and then shot himself in the head with a shotgun. But he managed to survive, he underwent a complex operation, after which he became mentally retarded. But that didn't stop the state of Arkansas from executing him.
This happened in 1992 and the execution was observed by Bill Clinton, who was then the governor of the state and flew in specially for this. Ricky ordered steak, fried chicken, cherry Kool-Aid, and a slice of pecan pie for dinner. He ate everything except the baked goods, saying he saved them for next time. Not bad that way.
Delbert Teague 
The last supper is often abandoned. Teague, sentenced to death for murder, did not want to eat before his execution. The jailers offered him different foods several times, but he eventually agreed to eat a cheeseburger. He was convinced to do this by his mother, who entered his cell and, as if he were still her little son, ordered him not to be capricious, but to eat.
Touching, no strength.
Ronnie Gardner 
His menu wasn't all that original, but what was interesting was the way he ate it. Before being shot in 2010, Ronnie ordered steak, lobster and a slice of apple pie. And he asked permission to watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. The prison authorities granted his request and he watched films while reading the little-known crime novel Divine Justice.
Thomas Grasso 
Grasso committed a series of robberies in Oklahoma in the 90s and killed two people in the process. He was caught in 1995 and sentenced to lethal injection. His last dinner was a real feast: barbecued ribs, strawberries, cheeseburger, steamed mussels, pumpkin pie, milkshakes. And the last thing he wanted was pasta rings in sauce in a jar, which he couldn’t get. They were replaced with regular spaghetti, which Thomas didn't like. When he was led to execution, he told reporters: “Instead of pasta rings, they gave me spaghetti. I want the press to know about this.” So-so last words.
Gary Simmons 
He awaited execution from 1996 to 2012. He had plenty of time to think about his last meal. Gary ordered a pizza, two kilos of Parmesan cheese, a 500 gram bag of Doritos, 226 grams of nacho cheese, three kilos of jalapenos, two huge strawberry shakes, two bottles of cherry cola, one kilo of strawberry ice cream and a large order of fries.
Gary got everything he asked for. Nutritionists said the dinner's nutritional value was about 29,000 calories. And he was able to eat half of what he ordered! Yes, before you die you won’t breathe enough, but you will get enough.
Adolf Eichmann 
This was the highest-ranking Nazi who managed to escape justice immediately after the end of the war. But he was tracked down, caught and sentenced to death. Eichmann was one of the main organizers of the genocide of the Jews. The hanging took place in 1962 and even he was offered a last supper. Eichmann refused food, but asked for a bottle of Israeli red wine, most likely not realizing the irony of this request.
Before ascending to the scaffold, he drank about half the bottle.
Lawrence Brewer 
Texas resident Lawrence Brewer was convicted in 1999 of racially motivated murder. He and two accomplices caught a 49-year-old black man, took him to a remote location, tortured him there, then tied him to a car and drove him around until he died.
Lawrence, who shared some views of the Ku Klux Klan, ordered himself a very rich dinner: a triple cheeseburger, an omelet, chicken-fried steak, paquita, barbecue pizza, ice cream, peanut toffee and three cans of non-alcoholic beer.
After it was all delivered, Brewer decided to do something nasty and simply refused to eat it all. The jailers disdained to eat this instead of the death row and threw the food in the trash.
Brewer did a lot of harm to all subsequent prisoners - after this trick, Texas began to kill on an empty stomach.
A Democratic senator serving on the state Senate Justice Committee angrily said:
"It's time to put an end to this. It seems completely unacceptable to me to give a person sentenced to death such a privilege. This is a privilege that the criminal did not provide to his victim."
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