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Film examines last meals of death row inmates
Brut America
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3/25/2025
Deep-fried shrimp. Pizzas. Mint Ice Cream. Last meals on death row are mythically extravagant.
These Australian filmmakers recreated the last meals of death row inmates, and learned something surprising about Capital punishment.
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The fantasy is that you're on death row, you can order mountains of food, whatever you
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want.
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The reality is most states have a cap, a limit on how much you can spend.
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You say you order fish, you get the equivalent that's in the prison cafeteria.
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We probably had this perception that when someone's going to be executed, every legal
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stone has been unturned.
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Everything's been done, they've made sure that the case is airtight, that kind of thing,
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and it's just not that case at all.
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It's really disturbing.
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It's obviously easy when it's a Ted Bundy or a John Wayne Gacy to not feel anything.
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But then when you start looking at the other side of the case, it's based on an eyewitness
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testimony or some kind of science like bite marks.
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That's completely bogus.
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And you're like, they've executed someone based on this evidence.
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And it's clearly erroneous.
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It's definitely not uncommon for death row inmates to not eat their last meals.
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Often families invited in and they might eat the meal.
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Perhaps wardens, prison guards, that sort of thing.
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Much is made of that particular case in Texas where, this is Lawrence Russell Brewer, where
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he didn't eat the meal and they're sort of seeing it as a political stance, which maybe
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it wasn't.
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Just log on to Netflix and see every documentary that's being made about true crime and serial
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killers.
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There's a new Ted Bundy film at basically every film festival.
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There is a fascination with death row and there's plenty of death row content.
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It's usually from the side of this person absolutely deserves to die.
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It's not sexy to look at people who shouldn't have been executed.
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Let's put it that way.
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I think finally, the United States should have another look at this death penalty thing.
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