Landon: For most prisoners who are condemned to be executed, they are given the opportunity
to make one last meal request.
Kelly: Some prisoners choose to have a full on feast while others prefer something a little
lighter.
Landon: But then there are those strange final meal requests that will make your head spin.
How’s it going you guys?
I’m Landon and this is Kelly from Top 5 Scary Videos
Landon: So here are
the top 10 shocking last meal requests by an inmate.
Landon: Ted Bundy’s last meal starts off this list in at number 10.
Alright so what did this notorious serial killer request for his final meal?
Absolutely nothing.
Is this real-life right now?
You have the opportunity to satisfy every taste bud in your mouth and you choose to
eat nothing?
I would be taking full advantage of this privilege if that was me.
But nope, Ted Bundy refused to make a last meal request so he was given the standard
final meal which was medium rare steak, eggs over easy, hash browns, toast with butter
and jelly, milk and juice.
But he refused to eat that too.
I think the worst thing about being executed is being executed with an empty stomach.
Kelly: Moving on to Number 9, we have Victor Feuger.
Victor was the last federal inmate to be executed in the United States prior to the moratorium
on the death penalty thanks to Furman v Georgia.
He’s also the last person to be put to death in the state of Iowa.
So what got him the death penalty?
He had randomly searched up doctors in the phone book, calling them alphabetically until
he stumbled upon Dr Edward Bartels.
He had told Bartels that he was with a woman who was ill and needed treatment, but when
Bartels arrived at the room Victor was renting, Victor kidnapped him, and killed him with
a single gun shot to the head, leaving his body in a corn field.
So what was 28 year old Victor’s last meal request?
A single olive with the pit in it.
Why?
He allegedly told guards that he hoped an olive tree would sprout from his grave as
a sign of peace.
After he was pronounced dead, authorities found the olive pit in one of his suit pockets.
Landon: Coca-Cola and Pepsi slurp their way into number 8.
William Bonin was found guilty of assaulting and killing at least 21 people, but that number
could be even higher.
He spent 14 years on death row before he was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin
State Prison back in 1996.
But before his execution, he made one final request.
He wanted two large pizzas, three pints of ice cream and three six packs of Coke and
Pepsi.
I guess he wanted to settle the Coke vs Pepsi debate once and for all.
I mean, if the lethal injection didn’t kill him, the high sugar content of his meal might
have.
Landon: James Edward Smith digs himself in at number 7.
He was executed in June 1990 for shooting a man to death during a robbery of some offices
inside of the International Trade Center Building in Houston.
Smith used to be a loving and kind person until he started to practice black magic,
voodooism and witchcraft.
He even admitted to participating in six ritualistic killings before he was arrested.
So, when it came time for him to select his final meal, he asked for a lump of dirt.
Yep, you heard that correctly…a lump of dirt.
He apparently needed this dirt to perform some sort of voodoo ritual but obviously his
request was not fulfilled.
Surprisingly dirt was not on the list of foods approved by the prison system.
So instead, the officers gave him yogurt because it was the most “similar” thing to dirt.
I wonder if he was able to still perform his voodoo ritual?
Kelly: In at Number 6 we have Timothy McVeigh.
McVeigh is one of the most despicable home grown American terrorists to date.
Back in 1995, he bombed the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which is
now known as the Oklahoma City bombing.
This led to the deaths of 168 innocent people, some of which included young children, and
injured over 680 others.
Prior to September 11th, this was the biggest bombing in American history.
And it was spawned out of McVeigh’s disdain for the government due to the events of the
1992 Ruby Ridge incident and the 1993 Waco Siege, both of which had ties to white supremacists,
just like McVeigh himself.
When he was convicted at the age of 33, he was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
And for his final meal?
He requested two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream.
I guess if you’re on death row, you might as well go all out for your final meal, even
if going all
out means satisfying your sweet tooth.
Landon: Robert Buell makes it onto this strange list in at number 5.
He was sentenced to death for the murder and assault of an 11-year-old girl back in 1982
and he maintained his innocence despite being sentenced to 121 years in prison.
For his last and final meal, he decided to go very expensive and lavish.
Robert Buell requested a single black olive.
Whoa…way to spoil yourself there Robert.
In all seriousness, what’s up with the black olive…I mean if you’re going to get a
single olive for your last meal you should at least choose the king of all olives and
pick a green one.
Apparently, he was very specific and wanted the pit removed as well.
Could you imagine if he dropped his olive on the ground.
How sad would that be.
I don’t know if the five second rule applies in prison.
You never know what’s crawling on the ground there.
Kelly: Number 4 In at the number we have the last meal of
one of America’s most notorious criminals.
John Wayne Gacy.
If you’re unfamiliar with his crime, Gacy, a serial killer and rapist, sexually assaulted,
tortured and murdered at least 33 teenage boys and young men between the years of 1972
and 1978, all within his Illinois ranch house, where he had buried most of the bodies in
his crawlspace, too.
Gross.
And what was his final meal?
12 fried shrimp, a bucket of original recipe KFC chicken, French fries, a pound of strawberries
and a diet coke.
Before Gacy was convicted, he had managed three KFC restaurants.
Guess he grew a taste for finger licking goodness.
He was allowed to have his final meal alongside his family at a private picnic on the prison
grounds.
Kelly: Our Number 3 spot isn’t just a meal request; it was dinner AND a movie.
Ronnie Lee Gardner, who was put to death by firing squad for his crimes, which included
two counts of murder, had a special request for his last meal.
What did he get?
Steak, a lobster tail, and apple pie, a glass of 7-up with a side of vanilla ice cream.
But he wanted to eat it while watching all of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
He
also requested a copy of the book Justice Divine to read prior to the 48 hour fast after
his final meal, which according to his lawyers, Gardner’s choice to fast afterwards was
motivated by spiritual reasons, as was his choice to be killed by firing squad rather
than lethal injection.
Gardner’s death penalty sentence sparked a lot of debate about the cruelty of capitol
punishment, and the night before his execution, protests broke out at the Utah State Capitol.
Landon: One of the biggest last meal requests comes onto this list in at number 2.
Lawrence Russel Brewer went all out for his final meal.
No seriously, he did not hold back.
Are you ready for this…he ordered two chicken fried steaks and sliced onions dripping in
gravy, a triple meat bacon cheeseburger with everything on the side, one cheese omelet
with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers and jalapenos, a big bowl of fried okra with
ketchup, one pound of BBQ meat and half a loaf of white bread, three fajitas with all
the toppings, a pizza hut meat lovers pizza, a pint of vanilla ice cream, a slab of peanut
butter fudge with crushed peanuts and three root beers.
Phew…alright sounds like a great meal doesn’t it?
Well when it was time for him to dig in he refused to eat, saying that he wasn’t hungry.
Well I bet there were no delays to getting him to the electric chair after they made
the prison scramble to achieve his last meal request.
Actually, because of him, Texas no longer grants inmates on death row a final meal request.
Kelly: Number 1 And last but not least, we have another hefty
final meal in at number one.
Steven Michael Woods Jr. Woods was killed in Texas by lethal injection in 2011 after
he was convicted of the murders of a 21 year old drug dealer and his 19 year old companion
in 2001.
After being incarcerated, Woods was active in prison strikes and protests against the
treatment of death row inmates, and even petitioned various media outlets on the subject.
His whole sentencing was surrounded in controversy and reported on world wide, and even had Amnesty
International up in arms.
His last words were “you’re not about to witness and execution, you are about to
witness a murder.”
So what did Woods have for his last meal?
Two pounds of bacon.
A large four meat pizza.
Two drinks each of Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Root Beer, and Sweet Tea.
Five chicken fried steaks.
Two hamburgers with bacon.
A side of fries.
And a dozen garlic bread sticks with marinara dip on the side.
And for dessert?
Two pints of ice cream.