Wildest Death Row last meal requests – greasy KFC spread to defiant pizza demand

Shocking news has been coming out of South Carolina in the southeast of the United States, that a Death Row prisoner who has been imprisoned since 1999 is due to be executed by a firing squad.

Richard Bernard Moore was placed on Death Row following a fatal robbery shooting in a convenience store that went wrong.

More than 20 years later, he maintains he didn’t bring the gun with him and that instead, the man he killed died from a gunshot wound caused during a struggle between them.

He also maintains that the gun belonged to his victim, James Mahoney.

Moore was given the impossible choice between the firing squad or the electric chair, choosing the gun due to the terrible reputation of the chair.

His execution has been delayed, but the brutal method he's been forced to pick to die has caused fury around the world.

Some states have been unable to get their hands on the lethal injection drugs used in executions because pharmaceutical companies are refusing to sell to them.

But that hasn't stopped states from continuing to execute people, with 14 having taken prisoners' lives in the last 10 years.

With such a seemingly free approach to the idea of killing people, the American justice system has caused quite a significant number of people to have to pick their last meal.

Read on for some of the craziest in history.

Craziest Death Row last meals

  • Texas Death Row inmates never get last meal because of what one convict ordered

Cop killer Phillip Workman was executed in 2007, but unusually he chose to not even eat his final meal.

Instead, he opted to give his final meal to someone else, demanding that his vegetarian pizza be donated to a homeless person in Nashville.

The prison denied his last request and he in turn refused to eat anything.

In honour of Workman, people from all over the country donated a huge number of vegetarian pizzas out of respect for his decision to make his final act one of kindness.

Pizzas flooded in from charities and individuals. According to CNN at the time, activist Donna Spangler grouped together with friends to organise almost £1,000 worth of pizzas to be sent.

She said: "Philip Workman was trying to do a good deed and no one would help him”.

Not every last meal needs to be some decadent affair. For some prisoners on Death Row, it seems that a simpler final mouthful to savour is more appealing.

This was the case for serial killer Aileen Wuornos – inspiration for the 2003 Oscar-winning film Monster – who was executed in 2002. She chose to have nothing more than a cup of coffee before being put to death by lethal injection.

Timothy McVeigh was famous for his crimes as he was the man behind the infamous Oklahoma City bombing. But before his death, he requested to have two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream as his last meal.

He was sentenced for 168 counts of murder and died aged 33.

Some people, however, like something a little more filling. Notorious John Wayne Gacy, also known as the Killer Clown, was sentenced to death for rape and 33 counts of murder.

He received a lethal injection but not before he had dined on a bucket of original recipe KFC, 12 fried shrimp, a pound of strawberries and some french fries.

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