"Prison Trolleys" photo from Backyard Believers

Dinners of the Damned

Sub Rosa

[24 September 2007]

by Mikita Brottman

Thanks to Dead Man Eating, I now know that most states actually offer you your “special meal” a couple of days before your execution date, when you’ve still got enough of an appetite to enjoy it.

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