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By JENNIFER McKEE, Helena Independent Record
HELENA - Duncan McKenzie, executed at the Montana State Prison in May 1995, ordered a final meal of tenderloin steak, French fries, a tossed salad with dressing, orange sherbet and a glass of whole milk.
Terry Langford, who was executed in February 1998, ate chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and a banana split. He ordered no beverage, but was served coffee and milk in accordance with Montana State Prison inmate meal policies.
David Dawson, scheduled to be executed next month, has not yet ordered his final meal, said Linda Moodry, spokeswoman for the prison.
But the prison, which has presided over only two executions since 1943, already has the rules in place for handling Dawson's final dinner.
Dawson, who kidnapped and murdered three members of a Billings family in 1986, including an 11-year-old boy, must place his last meal order no later than Aug. 4, Moodry said, or one week before the scheduled execution.
"There is no cost amount associated with it," she said. "We'll see what he wants and try to provide him with something that is not a normal, everyday meal. We do try to honor the request, if possible."
The prison buys all the food locally, she said, so Dawson's last meal either will be ordered from a Deer Lodge restaurant or purchased at a Deer Lodge grocery story and taken back to the prison to be prepared.
One thing Dawson can't have, however, is alcohol. Inmates aren't allowed to have it, even at their last meal.
McKenzie and Langford's meals were both purchased at grocery stores and prepared in the prison kitchen.
The meals are served between 5 and 8 p.m., with executions typically following shortly after midnight, although the prison warden determines the exact time.
Should Dawson's last meal be prepared at the prison, it will fall to a prison employee to drive into town with a grocery list and buy the ingredients of the killer's last meal. Then employees will prepare the meal..
Asked if handling such execution details is hard on prison employees, Moodry said the staff views all of their work as putting into practice the will of the Montana justice system.
"That's what the courts have asked us to," she said. "We just try to do our jobs."
Montana, which has executed just two people in the last 63 years, is not as practiced in death penalty details as other states.
Texas has executed hundreds of criminals in the past two decades, and until recently, maintained an on-line database on its state Web site of the final meals of those executed.
The site has since been taken down, but another Web site, called The Memory Hole, saved a copy of the list of final meals of Texans executed between 1982 and 2003.
Their orders vary from the voluminous to the simple.
Murderer Stanley Baker, executed in 2002, ordered two 16-ounce rib eye steaks, a one-pound turkey breast sliced thin, 12 strips of bacon, two large hamburgers with mayonnaise, onion and lettuce, two large baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, cheese and chives, four slices of cheese or one-half pound of grated cheddar cheese, a chef salad with bleu cheese dressing, two ears of corn on the cob, one pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream and four cans of Vanilla Coke or Mr. Pibb.
Another ordered nothing but a pot of coffee.
Source : Helena Independent Record
www.helenair.com/articles/2006/07/18/montana/a06071806_02.txt
HELENA - Duncan McKenzie, executed at the Montana State Prison in May 1995, ordered a final meal of tenderloin steak, French fries, a tossed salad with dressing, orange sherbet and a glass of whole milk.
Terry Langford, who was executed in February 1998, ate chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy and a banana split. He ordered no beverage, but was served coffee and milk in accordance with Montana State Prison inmate meal policies.
David Dawson, scheduled to be executed next month, has not yet ordered his final meal, said Linda Moodry, spokeswoman for the prison.
But the prison, which has presided over only two executions since 1943, already has the rules in place for handling Dawson's final dinner.
Dawson, who kidnapped and murdered three members of a Billings family in 1986, including an 11-year-old boy, must place his last meal order no later than Aug. 4, Moodry said, or one week before the scheduled execution.
"There is no cost amount associated with it," she said. "We'll see what he wants and try to provide him with something that is not a normal, everyday meal. We do try to honor the request, if possible."
The prison buys all the food locally, she said, so Dawson's last meal either will be ordered from a Deer Lodge restaurant or purchased at a Deer Lodge grocery story and taken back to the prison to be prepared.
One thing Dawson can't have, however, is alcohol. Inmates aren't allowed to have it, even at their last meal.
McKenzie and Langford's meals were both purchased at grocery stores and prepared in the prison kitchen.
The meals are served between 5 and 8 p.m., with executions typically following shortly after midnight, although the prison warden determines the exact time.
Should Dawson's last meal be prepared at the prison, it will fall to a prison employee to drive into town with a grocery list and buy the ingredients of the killer's last meal. Then employees will prepare the meal..
Asked if handling such execution details is hard on prison employees, Moodry said the staff views all of their work as putting into practice the will of the Montana justice system.
"That's what the courts have asked us to," she said. "We just try to do our jobs."
Montana, which has executed just two people in the last 63 years, is not as practiced in death penalty details as other states.
Texas has executed hundreds of criminals in the past two decades, and until recently, maintained an on-line database on its state Web site of the final meals of those executed.
The site has since been taken down, but another Web site, called The Memory Hole, saved a copy of the list of final meals of Texans executed between 1982 and 2003.
Their orders vary from the voluminous to the simple.
Murderer Stanley Baker, executed in 2002, ordered two 16-ounce rib eye steaks, a one-pound turkey breast sliced thin, 12 strips of bacon, two large hamburgers with mayonnaise, onion and lettuce, two large baked potatoes with butter, sour cream, cheese and chives, four slices of cheese or one-half pound of grated cheddar cheese, a chef salad with bleu cheese dressing, two ears of corn on the cob, one pint of mint chocolate chip ice cream and four cans of Vanilla Coke or Mr. Pibb.
Another ordered nothing but a pot of coffee.
Source : Helena Independent Record
www.helenair.com/articles/2006/07/18/montana/a06071806_02.txt