Matthew Goldthwaite makes a good point...

I noticed that you use the word "factoid" to describe small facts about the men being executed. It's a common mistake, but a factoid is defined as something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact. So unless everything coming after "factoid" is false, you are using the word incorrectly.

Thanks, Matthew...

WPaw Man from parts unknown...

If I had one last meal I would want 2 taco bell bean burritos with extra cheese and red sauce, a pepperoni and cheese pizza from amici's, a pint of rocky road from baskin robbins and a 2 liter of ice cold Pepsi


Basil W. of parts unknown...

Ugh, hello? Is this thing on? Hello? Hello? I just want world peace. Oh wait, speaking about peace, how about a piece of chicken-fried crispy, scrambled eggs, cheesy-grits, mac and cheese, meatloaf, butter-pecan ice cream and a diet Coke (must watch caloric intake). And some dark toast...Did I mention world peace?



Hey,

My last meal would be:

Chips from the chip shop with chippy sauce ie Brown HP sauce mixed
with vinegar and salt - only available in east of Scotland;

Strawberry milkshake

Cadbury's chocolate esp Creme Eggs.

Champagne truffles and Baileys icecream (presumably alcohol flavoured
stuff not allowed on death row!)

Bon appetit!

Kirsten

A Scots Criminal Defence Lawyer

last meal, sam of calera,al

cheese sticks from pizza hut with ranch salad dressing,garlic cheese biscuits from red lobster,my late mother's turkey and cornbread dressing with cranberry sauce and gravy,my late grandmother's homemade vegetable beef soup,my late aunt's homemade mac n cheese,southern crunchy fried chicken,fried flounder,a large bacon cheeseburger with mayonaise,ketchup,lettuce,and grilled onions from wendy's,large fries from mcdonalds,homemade mashed potatoes and gravy, home made buttery sweet cornbread,slab of barbecue spare ribs from dreamland bbq in birmingham,al,paula deen's guey butter cake,blue bell vanilla homemade ice cream, and a case of 12 pack pepsis, ice cold


The last thing you'll ever eat- and all I see is fast food and brand
names.
People's Epicurean tastes really do seem banal. In an effort to buck
the
trend, I'd like some stuff I never tried, as well as some old
favourites: it
should be obvious which is which.

Lark's tongues in aspic,
Beluga caviar,
Some of that coffee that passes through the digestive tract of the
ocelot,
Whale meat á la mode,
Steamed asparagus,
Celery soup,
Olives (a big bowl, Queens, Kalamata, the lot),
Laver (seaweed)
Human meat, donated by some kindly soul, just for curiosity,
Assam tea prepared with milk as is the usual fashion in India,
A coconut,
Pomegranates,
A cake of some kind prepared with caraway and linseed.

And since it seems to be de rigeur, peach cobbler, pecan ice-cream and
some
ghastly soda or other. I don't want them but there seems to be a
tradition.

Still loving your work,

Leighton.

TENNESSEE LAST MEAL
DARYL KEITH HOLTON
September 12, 2007

..."Don't worry about it."...

Last meal: Holton had no final meal request. He ate what was served to the other inmates: riblets on a bun, mixed vegetables, baked beans, white cake with white icing and iced tea.

The skinny: Holton, 45, was executed for the killing his three sons and their half-sister with an assault rifle.

Holton was the first inmate executed in the electric chair in Tennessee since 1960.

More skinny: Holton, a Gulf War Veteran, he lined up his 4 children at his uncle's auto repair garage and shot them with an SKS assault rifle, two at a time.

It was the first time in several months Holton had seen his children, aged 12, 10, 6 and 4. He told them they were going Christmas shopping, instead stopping at the garage.

After the murders, Holton walked into the Shelbyville Police Department and announced what he had done. Responding officers found the bodies of the four small children, along with pipe bombs that Holton said were intended for his wife and her home.

There was a long history between the two of domestic and custody disputes.

The chair: Holton chose the electric chair over the state's preferred execution method of lethal injection. Under Tennessee law, death row inmates can choose, if their crimes were committed before 1999. Even though the state had not performed an electrocution in nearly 47 years, the execution occurred without any serious delays or mistakes.

Last words and such: Asked if he had any last words, Holton replied, "Um, yeah — two words: I do."

Prison officials then placed a wet sponge and metal plate on Holton's head. During the process, Holton kept his eyes closed. As officials used a towel to wipe away water from the sponge, Holton said, "Don't worry about it."

A black shroud was placed over Holton's head and a cable was connected to the bottom of the chair. Around 1:16 a.m. CDT, a 20-second shock was administered. Holton's back straightened and his hips moved up out of the chair before he slumped back. After a 15-second pause, Holton was given a second shock that lasted 15 seconds. He was pronounced dead seconds later.

But despite worries from many, including the chair’s builder, Fred A. Leuchter Jr., that the device would not work properly or, even if it did, would fail to execute someone humanely, Holton appears to have felt little to no pain and appears to have been the recipient of enough electricity to kill him during the first surge of 1,750 volts of electricity, said media witnesses to the execution.

A prison spokesman said Holton sustained first- to- second-degree burns on his head and his ankles, which served as the contact points for the current. “That was not an unexpected finding,” Levy said. “The burn marks around his head and his legs were very similar to a severe sunburn.” The burns were caused by the generating of heat produced by the electricity, Levy said, adding that the burns would have emerged toward the end of the electrocution cycle.

Factoids: Holton was the...

40th murderer executed in U.S. in 2007
1097th murderer executed in U.S. since 1976
2nd murderer executed in Tennesee in 2007
4th murderer executed in Tennesee since 1976

Holton came within a day of execution a year ago before a federal appeals court issued a stay.

Before the execution, about 40 people, all death penalty opponents, gathered outside Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. Some sat in lawn chairs and others sipped coffee, while a few read Bible passages to themselves. One man sang while playing an acoustic guitar.