{"id":13875,"date":"2024-09-04T19:42:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T00:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=13875"},"modified":"2024-09-04T19:42:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T00:42:34","slug":"mfdj-09-04-24-doubling-the-last-meal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=13875","title":{"rendered":"MFDJ 09\/04\/24: Doubling the Last Meal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Fulfilling Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

If the condemned wins a stay of execution after he has eaten his last meal, does he get to choose another meal when his next execution date rolls around?<\/p>\n

Absolutely! This has happened many times. The trick is to make sure that you actually have the meal in front of you before the stay is issued. For example, Dobie Gillis Williams (Louisiana) received a stay while he was dining on his last meal. He just continued eating. However, Thomas Thompson (California) received his stay of execution after\u00a0<\/em>he had ordered his final meal, but\u00a0before\u00a0<\/em>he had actually received it. The order was canceled.<\/p>\n

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\nI’m not sure if Dobie’s first meal was the same as his last meal, but this is an artistic depiction by Teresa Kelly of his last meal prior to his actual execution on January 8, 1999.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Culled from: Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals from Death Row<\/a><\/p>\n

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WEEGEE Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

Weegee\u00a0was the\u00a0pseudonym\u00a0of\u00a0Arthur Fellig\u00a0(June 12, 1899 \u2013 December 26, 1968), a\u00a0photographer\u00a0and\u00a0photojournalist, known for his stark black and white\u00a0street photography. Weegee worked in\u00a0Manhattan,\u00a0New York City\u2019s\u00a0Lower East Side\u00a0as a press photographer during the 1930s and \u201940s, and he developed his signature style by following the city\u2019s emergency services and documenting their activity. Much of his work depicted unflinchingly realistic scenes of urban life, crime, injury and death.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a photo from the book\u00a0Weegee\u2019s New York: Photographs, 1935-1960<\/a>\"\":<\/p>\n

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\nMurder suspect Alan Downs is led to jail after confessing to killing his wife, circa 1940, in New York City.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

(I couldn’t find any additional information about this guy – anyone want to see if you can track the story down?)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Garretdom: Olde News!<\/h3>\n

SHOT IN HIS TRACKS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A German Burglar Fatally Wounded While Attempting to\u00a0 Run Away.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the past ten days a number of small robberies were perpetrated in the Eighth district [Philadelphia].<\/em> It was evident from the fact that the houses were all opened from the rear by the same implement, that one man or a single gang was doing the work, and the police were instructed to keep a particularly careful lookout for suspicious characters. Early on Saturday morning Policeman Ritchie saw a man in the act of scaling a fence in rear of 444 north Eighth street. He placed him under arrest, when the prisoner knocked him down and ran. The officer recovered his feet and fired after the fugitive, brining him down at the second shot.<\/p>\n

Assistance was secured and the wounded man was taken to the station-house, where he gave the name of Frederick Glass and his residence as 910 Spring Garden street. The wound was found to be a dangerous one and he was sent to the Pennsylvania Hospital, where he died a short time after his admission.<\/p>\n

A large chisel found in the man’s pocket was found to fit the marks on the houses which had been robbed or where attempts to force doors and shutters had been made and articles found in his room were identified as having been stolen.<\/p>\n

Glass came to this country from Germany a short time ago and took up his lodgings at 910 Sprint Garden street with Mr. Voss. The proprietor of the house says the man had no visible means of support, and frequently remained out all night and slept during the day. The Coroner will investigate the case today.<\/p>\n

Culled from the collection of The Comtesse DeSpair
\n1886 Morbid Scrapbook<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Fulfilling Yet Truly Morbid Fact! If the condemned wins a stay of execution after he has eaten his last meal, does he get to choose another meal when his next execution date rolls around? Absolutely! This has happened many times. The trick is to make sure that you actually have the meal in front […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-garretdom"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13880,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13875\/revisions\/13880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}