End of final feast

             In September 22/2011, the Texas tribune focuses on the announcement made by the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Brad Livingston in response to the direct order made by the State Senator John Whitmire stipulating that, the death row inmate are no longer able to make a choice concerning their last meal before execution. Instead, the will be eating the meal of the day like any regular inmate in Texas prisons. The State senator is addressing the message to the public especially the inmate in death row.

             In his message, he clearly states that, that decision should be directly applicable and he will make sure that it is respected even if he has to use his position as a state senator to call for legislation assembly in order to make be a law in Texas. He claims that prisoners in death row have abuse of the tradition and it is time to end that privilege that was given to them for the past centuries. The decision is a result of the inmate Lawrence Brewer a white supremacist whom before his execution, ordered a giantesses amount of food and did not even touch it. Brewer’s action was judged as inadmissible by many people especially when they encountered the fact that somewhere in Texas a family cannot eat and a criminal is given the privilege to play with food. The public opinion is favorable to the Senator John Whitemire decision even people that do not agree with the death penalty.

            However, some people including myself agree that the tradition should continue but it has to be control and monitored to avoid a misuse by others criminal in death row. The reason behind that position is simply human because if anyone is given the date and the time the will die, we will all have a last thing that we will want to do before that given date arrives. For criminal waiting to be executed, the basic last thing the State can offered the is food however the menu and the quantity have to be set in advance to avoid what happen with Lawrence Brewer.