TDCJ Will End Final Feasts Before Executions

TDCJ Will End Final Feasts Before Executions

This article targets taxpayers and in specific conservatives because of the way the article is presented to be a waste of funds to carry on a tradition that is abused by prisoners.  The authors credibility can be measured by that of the newspaper itself.  The author her self, Brandi Grissom, herself is very experienced and educated.  The article argues that the long standing tradition of a final meal for death row inmates is not an effective use of funds.  The article talks about a death row inmate that ordered a massive amount of food to eat as his last meal.  After receiving the food,  He barely ate any of his feast that he ordered.  All of the food left over was wasted not that it wasn't already wasted on someone that is going to die.  The death penalty is meant to be a sentence for those that don't deserve to live because what they have done is so extremely horrible and depraved.  When someone that has done something so bad that they get a meal of they're choosing to have and enjoy in they're final hours.  For some it is shown that this last meal is the largest proponent of redemption these few can have but for most of the inmates on death row enjoy the meal to its fullest.  The death penalty plus the last meal were brought about as a tradition for religious reasons has become a mockery of its latter self.  The last meal should not be continued and the prisoners as stated in the article should be served the same food all the other prisoners eat.