The Last Meals Requested by Death Row Inmates Before Their Executions
0The death penalty is still in effect in countries such as Belarus, Cuba, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Saudi Arabia, & United States among others. In America alone, over 3,000 inmates are currently sitting on death row.
The Last Meal tradition, drawing upon the Christian story of the Last Supper, offers death-row inmates the chance to request a final meal before their execution. Whatever the means of execution, a condemned inmate is usually able to request a last meal of their choice. But have you ever wondered what would somebody, facing death want to eat?
Photographer Henry Hargreaves decided to do a photo project to document what these last suppers comprised and what they might have looked like. He looked up the requests of some of history’s most notorious executed criminals, recreated those meals, and photographed them. The project is titled “No Seconds.”
Source: henryhargreaves.com via: Vice
