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Texas' Death Row Has 498 Names of Inmates Executed Since 1982

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The state of Texas seems to have an express lane for prison inmates who are on death row.

The state puts information through the Texas Department of Corrections' web site about inmates its executed. There are 498 names listed since 1982.

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/dr_executed_offenders.html

The web site also has other death row information including scheduled executions and women on death row.

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/index.html

I recall that Texas also had information on the web site about last-meal requests by death row inmates.

But the state did away with special last-meal requests in September 2011 after condemned prisoner Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a huge last meal and did not eat any of it, saying that he wasn't hungry, according to published reports.

The 44-year-old Brewer ordered two chicken-fried steaks with gravy and sliced onions, a triple-patty bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and jalapenos.

Also a bowl of fried okra with ketchup; one pound of barbecued meat with half a loaf of white bread; three fajitas, a meat-lover's pizza (topped with pepperoni, ham, beef, bacon and sausage); one pint of Blue Bell Ice Cream; a slab of peanut-butter fudge with crushed peanuts and three root beers, according to published reports.

The tradition of customized meals began in Texas in 1924.

Brewer wasn't hungry and apparently didn't have much to say minutes before he was executed, according to state officials.

"No, I have no final statement," Brewer told the warden.

Brewer, a racist, was convicted in the murder of a 49-year-old handicapped black man in Jasper County.  Brewer and two other racist co-defendants tortured the victim before he was killed.

 

 


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