Thanks to Brewer, Texas Inmates Can No Longer Pick Last Meal

Thanks to Lawrence Brewer, Texas, on Sept. 15, 2011, ended the practice of letting a condemned inmate choose his final meal. The edict came after Brewer asked for and got an enormous array of food and then didn't eat any of it.

The state's decision came in response to a complaint from Sen. John Whitmire who objected to the request of Brewer who ate none of the food, which included two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a large bowl of fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover's pizza, a pint of ice cream and a slab of peanut-butter fudge with crushed peanuts.