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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #10 on: September 24, 2011, 02:27:37 PM »
Quote from: bodean87 on September 24, 2011, 02:01:00 PM
I may catch some flak for this. the reason they get a last meal is because we are better then them. That way they have a full stomach when we send them to hell.

Send them hungry.  Let them catch a bite at the Jeffery Dahmer Burger Joint when they get there.
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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2011, 02:34:07 PM »
The tradition has been around for a couple thousand years.
Why did it start in the first place ?
The answer to that may have a lot of bearing on the question.
FTA;
"Historical references to a condemned person’s last meal go as far back as ancient Greece, China and Rome, Hayes said. Some of it is apparently rooted in superstition about meals warding off possible haunting by condemned people once they are put to death."

I doubt that all those cultures did it for the same reason, their beliefs varied to greatly.
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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2011, 02:36:59 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on September 24, 2011, 02:34:07 PM
The tradition has been around for a couple thousand years.
Why did it start in the first place ?
The answer to that may have a lot of bearing on the question.

One suggested origination was a fear of being haunted by hungry ghosts
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
—Patrick Henry

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
— Daniel Webster

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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2011, 02:37:47 PM »
Darn it Solus, TYPE SLOWER !  ;D
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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #14 on: September 24, 2011, 03:28:44 PM »
Quote from: tombogan03884 on September 24, 2011, 02:37:47 PM
Darn it Solus, TYPE SLOWER !  ;D

T r o u b l e   u n d e r s t a n d i n g ?     I  c a n  a l s o  u s e U P P E R  C A S E  T O O, i f  t h a t  w i l l  h e l p ?     <snicker>
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
—Patrick Henry

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
— Daniel Webster

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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #15 on: September 24, 2011, 03:30:40 PM »
Quote from: Solus on September 24, 2011, 03:28:44 PM
T r o u b l e   u n d e r s t a n d i n g ?     I  c a n  a l s o  u s e U P P E R  C A S E  T O O, i f  t h a t  w i l l  h e l p ?     <snicker>

Quote from: tombogan03884 on September 24, 2011, 02:37:47 PM
Darn it Solus, TYPE SLOWER !  ;D

I was yelling at you in print.
(swearing under my breath too )   ;D
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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #16 on: September 24, 2011, 03:36:03 PM »
Oh...I get it.   I thought you were asking me to type (talk) slower so you could understand what I was saying. 

So I did.   and asked if it would help you understand if I typed (talked) Louder too.   ;D ;D ;D
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
—Patrick Henry

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
— Daniel Webster

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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #17 on: September 24, 2011, 07:05:21 PM »
No, just wait a couple minutes till I'm sure I've typed everything I wanted to say   ;D
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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #18 on: September 25, 2011, 07:36:47 AM »
A few years ago we (the public) were told that it was kinder to let a "brain dead" girl starve to death, rather than force her to live a lower quality of life, by feeding her through a tube. Wouldn't it be "kinder" to let a death row inmate starve to death rather than force them to live a less than ideal, quality of life on death row?
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Re: Is A Death Penalty Prisoner Entitled To A Last Meal. Tradition or Sign Of Times?
« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2011, 09:14:26 AM »
Quote from: bulldog75 on September 23, 2011, 09:53:15 PM
I wonder what Last meal their victim got. No need to waste food on him, give it to a homeless person.

Yep!
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