Strangest Last Meal Request Essay

10 Strangest Last Meal Requests On Death Row

Adam Morassutti

What would you request for your last meal? For most, it would be a familiar favorite, a family recipe, or something from their favorite restaurant. For many people throughout history, however, there has been a series of odd and peculiar last meal requests on death row, and here are 10 of those.

10. Peter Kürten
This German serial killer was widely known by his nicknames "The Vampire of Düsseldorf" and the "Düsseldorf Monster" when he committed his heinous crimes of murder and sexual assault between February and November 1929 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Kureten already had a lengthy rap sheet of crimes and misdemeanors before the murders started, including arson and attempted murder,

Pruett was placed in the witness protection program in 1979 and given a new name and 800 dollars, after testifying about a murder that he said he witnessed while in jail previously, though he would later claim that he initiated that murder himself. After this, Pruett went on a killing spree, claiming the lives of 5 victims throughout 1981, killing a bank worker while robbing a bank, as well as three convince store clerks. When he was caught, he was given life sentences in the states of New Mexico, Mississippi, and Colorado, while he was given the death sentence in Arkansas. He strangely asked a Msissispi newspaper to pay him $20,000 for him to disclose the location of one of his victim’s engagement rings, and in Flordia offered to reveal the location of a victim’s body for an appearance on the talk show Geraldo. Finally, for his last meal request, he asked for an extravagant meal, consisting of His final meal consisted of a stuffed crust pizza from Pizza Hut, four Burger King Whoppers, a large order of French fries, three two-liter bottles of Pepsi, a bucket of ice, a bottle of ketchup, salt, fried eggplant, fried squash, fried okra, and a pecan