There’s something perversely fascinating about the Last Meal: that final bit of grace we offer to a person we’ve decided isn’t fit to live among us anymore. After the state and U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal, convicted killer Cal Brown is hours from being executed for the 1991 rape and murder of 21-year-old Holly Washa. Brown has asked for a last meal of pizza, apple pie and root beer. I can’t be the only person simultaneously curious to know what toppings he asked for and ashamed by that curiosity, right?
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