Tag Archives: Last Meals

Piranha Club #2: The Last Last Meal

For Piranha Club #2 on March 10th, we pre­pared the last meal request of Lawrence Rus­sell Brewer, the last last meal served in the Texas penal sys­tem. Brewer had ordered an obscene amount of food which when pre­sented to him, he refused to eat in protest. The state then revoked this tra­di­tion for all death [...]
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Announcing: Piranha Club #2

Piranha Club #2: The Last Last Meal Sat­ur­day March 10th, 7pm. Roots & Cul­ture 1034 N Mil­wau­kee Ave. In Sep­tem­ber of last year, the state of Texas (which coin­ci­den­tally is the state that puts the most pris­on­ers to death) banned the mil­len­nia– old prac­tice of serv­ing a last meal to an inmate await­ing their exe­cu­tion. The last last meal was served to Lawrence [...]
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Annie 1/15

Last meal request: Pier­o­gis, mixed dip­ping sauces, borscht
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Miah 1/13

Last meal request: Ribs, creamed spinach, squash
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Alex 1/12

Last meal request: Ham, risotto, cheesecake.
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Last Meal

I have never had resolved feel­ings about the Death Penalty. The exe­cu­tion of inno­cent peo­ple due to flaws in our jus­tice sys­tem is clealry abhor­rent. And I’m not sure that pun­ish­ing vio­lence with vio­lence is a very con­tem­po­rary approach to jus­tice. Though, some­times I’ll hear the sto­ries of some of these crim­i­nals and feel a [...]
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