Georgia Inmate Marcus Ray Johnson Denied Beer as Last Meal

[KamaAina]

Not The Onion!

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/lethal-injection/georgia-inmate-marcus-ray-johnson-denied-beer-last-meal-n465756

A Georgia death-row inmate scheduled for execution on Thursday requested a six-pack of beer as his last meal and was turned down, prison officials said.

As a result, Marcus Ray Johnson will be given the regular meal: baked fish, cheese grits, beans, cole slaw, cookies and fruit punch.

"His request was declined as alcohol is a contraband item," the Georgia Department of Corrections said in a statement....

If it happens, Johnson will be the first inmate Georgia puts to death since Kelly Ann Gissendaner, who was executed in September despite a plea for mercy from Pope Francis.

(bzzzzzzzzzzt) Thanks, but I wanted a Bud Light!

edit: Cheese grits? I think he may have grounds for appeal under the cruel and unusual punishment clause.

[linuxman]

1. Oh well.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Ugh. "Last meal" always reminds me why I dislike the death penalty.

It's weird, it's not the execution methods or the various fuckups with the execution methods, it's not the viewing by witnesses--the last meal custom really brings home the barbarity of condemning a prisoner to death for me.

[840high]

3. I love cheese grits.

[xfundy]

4. Cheese grits are good.

Especially when they have prawns mixed in.

[shanti]

5. they sure are!

i had a coworker once who was from south carolina. shrimp and cheese grits was her signature recipe.

[KamaAina]

6. I object to the cheese, not the grits

You should have been there the time oasis' wife (they're African American) started to explain to my seemingly Yankee self what grits were, not realizing I had lived in NOLA for two years.

[shanti]

7. hey, you can pretty much put cheese on anything

and i'll eat it. grits with just butter is awesome too. can't really eat them much anymore, too many carbs, but i do remember them fondly....

[KamaAina]

8. You can pretty much put arsenic on anything, too

but that doesn't mean you should.

[Tipperary]

9. Kinda sad.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

10. I'll say it if no one else will: I would've given him a beer. One, not six.

I haven't even read what his crime was, but no matter how heinous, can't you give a guy a beer before you kill him?

[BarstowCowboy]

11. I was kinda leaning that way, but...

He was convicted of murdering a woman, a woman whom he admitted to punching in the nose after she asked him to snuggle following their having sex in his American made truck. I don't have sympathy for redneck misogynists.

[LiberalElite]

12. I'm not surprised - booze isn't allowed in prison.