The quotable Nancy Nall: “Enjoy your macaroni and cheese.”

Our old pal Nance on Texas Department of Corrections’ recent decision not to offer condemned prisoners their choice for a last meal anymore:

We give a condemned man a choice of last meal…because we’re better than the condemned. On the last day of his life, we’re extending the little niceties of civilization as a way of showing the man about to die what he rejected. We let him meet with a clerical representative of his choice to show we live by the values we kept and he rejected.

Not any more. Enjoy your macaroni and cheese.

I’m sorry to have to note that this change in policy was instigated by a Democrat.

Comments

[Mark]

Yes, but most Texas Democrats are Texans first.

[Earl Bockenfeld]

I remember way back during my working days that one of my very conservative workmates telling me, in a mildly incredulous tone, that he thought lethal injection was a bad idea because it "didn't make the criminal suffer enough" when we debated the death penalty.

Here's a short update on the Texas "last meal" decision:

Brian Price, who when he was an inmate in Texas worked in the prison kitchen and prepared about 200 last meals, now runs a restaurant in East Texas. He's offered to prepare future last meals for free. "Taxpayers will be out nothing," he told The Associated Press.

The state says thanks, but no thanks.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons told the Los Angeles Times that Price's proposal is "a kind offer." But, she said, "it's not the cost but rather the concept we're moving away from."

This is another example where John Stewart's comment makes perfect sense;

You want to add another candidate?” Stewart asked the GOP base. “It’s like the Republican primary is a season of American Idol in reverse, where every week you just add some new idiot… Have you ever considered the possibility that your candidates aren’t the problem — it’s you?”

Government is too big and powerful and costly and socialist and jackbooted, etc... But we always trust the government to kill the right people.