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What 12 death-row inmates requested for their last meal
By businessinsider.com- Sarah Jacobs
Published: 04/28/2016

In the 31 US states and various countries where the death penalty is legal, it's customary to give sentenced prisoners a special last meal at their request. Restrictions do apply — for example, in Florida the final meal can only cost up to $40, and it must be prepared locally.

Food photographer Henry Hargreaves has never agreed with the practice of the death penalty, so when he heard in 2011 that Texas was abolishing the special last-meal request for death-row inmates, he became fascinated by the tradition.

"I dug into [researching] it, went a little deeper and found a public record [of the meals]. For the first time, these people became humanized," he told Business Insider. "I thought it was really powerful that through food I was able to have an understanding of these people as real human beings."

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