Every inmate on death row is entitled to their last meal. I’m not sure when this tradition started or why, but it seems to make sense. A Mississippi grocery store butcher took this tradition to the extreme, asking for a final meal of a whopping 29,000 calories which probably would have killed him by itself if the state hadn’t gotten to him first.
The crime: Gary Carl Simmons Jr. was executed Wednesday for the murder of of a man and the subsequent rape of his girlfriend. Simmons, 49, carved up 21-year-old Jeffery Wolfe with his butcher knives, dismembering the young man in a bathtub and scattering the remains in a bayou by his home back in 1996. Afterwards, he hog-tied Wolfe’s girlfriend and raped her. The events leading to the crime began when Wolfe and girlfriend arrived at Simmons’ home to collect a drug debt. After Wolfe’s death, Simmons proceeded to rape the young girl, telling her that “her life depended on how well she performed sexually,” according to Reuters.
What’s on the menu: Before his Wednesday evening execution, Simmons requested a 29,000 calorie meal, later announced by the Mississippi Department of Corrections, reports Chron. The meal comprised of one Pizza Hut medium Super Supreme Deep Dish pizza, 10 packs of Parmesan cheese, 10 packs of ranch dressing, a family-size bag of nacho cheese Doritos, 8 ounces of jalapeno nacho cheese, 4 ounces of sliced jalapeno peppers, 2 large strawberry milkshakes, two cherry Cokes, one super-sized order of McDonald’s fries with extra ketchup and mayo and two pints of strawberry ice cream. On the pizza, he requested twice the normal amount of tomato sauce, mushrooms, onions, jalapeno peppers and pepperoni, and a regular helping of 3 cheeses, olives, bell peppers, tomato, garlic, and Italian sausage, reports NY Daily.
Good. Lord.
We don’t know how much of the meal he was able to finish, but he was at least halfway through an hour before his execution. The entire meal was a stomach-churning 29,000 calories and 2000 grams of fat. That’s what an average man puts away in a two-week time span, notes MSN.
Wolfe’s father was at the execution, telling reporters that Simmons is a “piece of trash” who will “burn in hell.” “When you take your last breath, I’ll be going to have a cold beer,” he said.
Eerily, Simmons’ last words didn’t exactly fit the brutality of his crimes. “I’ve been blessed to be loved by some good people, by some amazing people,” Simmons said. “I thank them for their support. Now, let’s get it on so these people can go home. That’s it.”
What do you think? Are there really any words?
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Rot in hell, you deserve it.
All at the tax payers expense.
All at the tax payers expense.
While his choices in life were OBVIOUSLY not socially acceptable, so it seems his culinary choices were also pretty questionable…Friends, just askin' here…what are your thoughts on last meals for those about to be executed?
Prisoner like this man should be limited to the amount of food he gets.
What a waste of money…
Texas discontinued special-request last meals. In Oklahoma, you're limited to a maximum of $20 worth of food that has to come from the immediate area–McAlester–meaning almost everyone executed in Oklahoma now ends up with Taco Bell for their last meal.
I have much less of a problem with the state paying for a special request meal than I do with the state being empowered to kill.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8571226-slaughter-on-a-snowy-morn
I just finished this…good damn book. I'm still an eye for an eye person (I am okay with the dad killing his child's rapist when caught in the act, but don't think McVeigh's execution changed anything), but this book is amazing. Does that make sense?
I'd rather them feed him his last meal like this than if they had kept him alive another 15-20 years sitting on death row. I get more angry about the fact that we feed and pay for the medical care of these people for life. Kill 'em and get it over with, they don't need to sit there for 15 years before it.
I agree, there is no point in sentencing someone to death only to let them live their life through on the backs of the working class.
It makes NO sense at all to give a "last meal" of their choosing. Why should they be given this privelege just because they are going to die?
He probably wanted to eat all that junk food, thinking that they would have to clean up after him when he died. I vote to cancel this privelege!
The pro death penalty people are using the absurd lists of items included on last meal requests as a prod to poke fun at these individuals who are being murdered, a number of whom are probably entirely innocent of the crimes for which they have been convicted to die. These stories of over-the-top consumption serve to further alienate, to distance, the condemned person from the world of normal human comfort and community.
And, so, the stories of these kinds of last meals serve a useful function in the process by which state-power de-emphasizes the seriousness of the issue at hand ( direct murder by the state of a defenseless individual ) in favor of flooding the issue with the disorienting lights, almost, of show business, entertainment, public clowning, etc. . .
Why not let 'em get drunk as heck, and just keep 'em alive ?
Let him have the same kind of "last meal" that he gave his VICTIMS.
Ridiculous! Whoever came up with this idea is nuts. Think they'll remember what they ate after they're dead? Not!
And who cares. The only meal someone like this deserves is a plate full of crap….Why waste good food on someone like this when we have people starving out there..
What did you just say?
that's not a last meal- that's a binge! it should have been a pizza and a coke and that's it.
he said the media is using these kinds of stories to undermine the seriousness of what happened. the state put a man to death. im really not usually into the death penalty but his crime was brutal.
I agree with the comment below, the US government having the power to give an inmate a 'last meal' is far less concerning than their power to take away life.
Not a fan of the death penalty then mate?
If it was effective I might be, mate!
If we could be sure that everyone convicted was actually guilty then there might be some case for it. An awful lot of completely innocent people have been released from prison. They would never be released from death.
If we could be sure that everyone convicted was actually guilty then there might be some case for it. An awful lot of completely innocent people have been released from prison. They would never be released from death.
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To the person that said it was at the tax payers expense its not because the inmate pays for it at their own expense
wow. you're all just fucking pathetic hey. give the man a last meal.