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Tennessee convicted child rapist and killer on Wednesday picked a deluxe burger combo as his last meal before his execution -- the first in the state in nearly a decade.

Billy Ray Irick, 59, chose the deluxe combo that included a super deluxe burger, onion rings and a Pepsi soft drink, the Tennessee Department of Correction said Wednesday. Irick, who is being held at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, will eat his last meal before his execution, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday.

Billy Ray Irick, on death row for raping and killing a 7-year-old girl in 1985, appears in a Knox County criminal courtroom in Knoxville, Tenn., arguing that he's too mentally ill to be executed by the state. The Tennessee Supreme Court has refused to stay Thursday's Aug. 9, 2018, scheduled execution of the convicted child killer while the state's new lethal injection protocol continues to be challenged on appeal. The order brings Tennessee within days of killing Irick with a three-drug cocktail, barring some last-minute change.

Billy Ray Irick was convicted in the 1985 rape and murder of 7-year-old Paula Dyer. (AP)

The name of the restaurant that prepared the meal was not released out of an abundance of caution, the department said.

Death row inmates are given a $20 limit to spend on their last meal, the Tennessean reported.

Irick was convicted in the 1985 rape and murder of 7-year-old Paula Dyer, who he was babysitting.

The convicted killer is expected to receive a three-drug injection on Thursday. If Irick is executed, it will be the first Tennessee has applied the death penalty since 2009.

Irick exhausted all his appeals since being convicted and continued over the years to challenge the drugs Tennessee officials used in lethal injections for death row inmates.

On Monday, the state Supreme Court denied a stay of Irick's execution, saying a lawsuit filed by inmates contesting the execution drugs being used wasn't likely to succeed.

Full Article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/09/tennessee-convicted-child-killer-billy-ray-irick-picks-deluxe-burger-combo-as-last-meal-before-execution.html


Man what would you pick as your last meal?

Fast Food burger and onion rings is such a weird choice.
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wait they only have a $20 limit on what they can buy?

i figured you could order whatever you wanted within reason
20 seems to low for the ideal last meal
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Man what would you pick as your last meal?

McDonald's Shamrock Shake & McRib

Fit nicely under $20 with money to spare
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$20? I guess food is cheaper in the states, but still... way to be cheap.
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for $20 he didn't have much choice.
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Chicken posted...

$20? I guess food is cheaper in the states, but still... way to be cheap.

Maybe this is state-specific? I know there are some famous killers who ate more expensive stuff than that.
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i would order perkins bottomless coffee

if it never runs out i get to stay alive for ever
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eggcorn posted...

for $20 he didn't have much choice.

Could have chosen not to kill kids but ok
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My last meal?

Boneless wings w bleu cheese, celery, and a side of coleslaw
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The whole concept of the "last meal" offered to death row inmates always makes me profoundly sad and sits with me pretty poorly. It's something they enjoyed, some piece of the outside world, often something they have nostalgia for, simpler/better times. It's extremely humanizing, which you can argue is a good or bad thing with criminals like this, but either way is in stark contrast with the entire concept of the death penalty. Like, "here's one more good, enjoyable, pure thing before we kill you." I dunno. It's just eerie to me.

I'm not even saying anything for or against the death penalty here, it's just the cognitive dissonance that always jars me a bit.
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Anyway, last meal would have to be a ribeye. Might be hard to get a good one under $20, in which case I'd reconsider.
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

The whole concept of the "last meal" offered to death row inmates always makes me profoundly sad and sits with me pretty poorly. It's something they enjoyed, some piece of the outside world, often something they have nostalgia for, simpler/better times. It's extremely humanizing, which you can argue is a good or bad thing with criminals like this, but either way is in stark contrast with the entire concept of the death penalty. Like, "here's one more good, enjoyable, pure thing before we kill you." I dunno. It's just eerie to me.

I'm not even saying anything for or against the death penalty here, it's just the cognitive dissonance that always jars me a bit.

I don't see how.

"you're going to die so here's one last meal of your choice" is evil but "You're going to die so your last meal is piss and shit and some goat vomit" is fine?
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Billy Ray Irick

That is the most Tennessee name I have ever seen

UnfairRepresent posted...

Mr_Biscuit posted...

The whole concept of the "last meal" offered to death row inmates always makes me profoundly sad and sits with me pretty poorly. It's something they enjoyed, some piece of the outside world, often something they have nostalgia for, simpler/better times. It's extremely humanizing, which you can argue is a good or bad thing with criminals like this, but either way is in stark contrast with the entire concept of the death penalty. Like, "here's one more good, enjoyable, pure thing before we kill you." I dunno. It's just eerie to me.

I'm not even saying anything for or against the death penalty here, it's just the cognitive dissonance that always jars me a bit.

I don't see how.

"you're going to die so here's one last meal of your choice" is evil but "You're going to die so your last meal is piss and shit and some goat vomit" is fine?

I have literally no idea how you got that from what I said.
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Just hang the bastard.
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They won't give out the name of the place, but mentioned he got a Pepsi

Fast food restaurants that use Coke:
Sonic
McDonald's
Burger King
Whataburger
In-N-Out Burger
Carl's Jr
Wendy's
Dairy Queen
Smashburger
Five Guys

Fast food restaurants that use Pepsi:
Can't find any
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he's lucky to even get a 20 dollar meal after what he did. some people think they shouldn't deserve a last meal they get to pick

I know Wienerschnitzel uses Pepsi
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Coffeebeanz posted...

Fast food restaurants that use Pepsi:
Can't find any

KFC, Pizza hut, Applebees, Taco Bell, Applebees, Arbys, Quiznos, Hooters, IHOP

Off the top of my head
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

Fast food restaurants that use Pepsi:
Can't find any

KFC, Pizza hut, Applebees, Taco Bell, Applebees, Arbys, Quiznos, Hooters, IHOP

Off the top of my head

You forgot Applebees
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eston posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

Fast food restaurants that use Pepsi:
Can't find any

KFC, Pizza hut, Applebees, Taco Bell, Applebees, Arbys, Quiznos, Hooters, IHOP

Off the top of my head

You forgot Applebees

No I didn't...
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

Fast food restaurants that use Pepsi:
Can't find any

KFC, Pizza hut, Applebees, Taco Bell, Applebees, Arbys, Quiznos, Hooters, IHOP

Off the top of my head

Do any of those serve double burgers?
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

Fast food restaurants that use Pepsi:
Can't find any

KFC, Pizza hut, Applebees, Taco Bell, Applebees, Arbys, Quiznos, Hooters, IHOP

Off the top of my head

Arby's near my place has Coke, probably a regional thing.
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eston posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

Fast food restaurants that use Pepsi:
Can't find any

KFC, Pizza hut, Applebees, Taco Bell, Applebees, Arbys, Quiznos, Hooters, IHOP

Off the top of my head

You forgot Applebees

...and Applebees.
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Taco Bell uses Pepsi, but he got a burger
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It used to be the case that you could choose whatever you wanted as a last meal but a lot of states started doing away with it or restricting it because dudes were making absurd orders just to troll the system.

they had him in prison for 33 years and are just now deciding to to execute him? thats fucked up

UnfairRepresent posted...

Irick exhausted all his appeals since being convicted and continued over the years to challenge the drugs Tennessee officials used in lethal injections for death row inmates.

This kind of shit is what people are talking about when they say "the death penalty costs too much". As soon as they can no longer challenge the criminal charge itself, that should be it, end of story, you don't see the end of that day. Fuck being able to contest technicalities about the process just to stall your sentence. >_>
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Backyard burger is headquartered in Nashville, serves a double burger, onion rings and Pepsi
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Kajagogo posted...

eston posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Coffeebeanz posted...

Fast food restaurants that use Pepsi:
Can't find any

KFC, Pizza hut, Applebees, Taco Bell, Applebees, Arbys, Quiznos, Hooters, IHOP

Off the top of my head

You forgot Applebees

...and Applebees.

lol
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His rape/murder victim didnt get a last meal.

I dont believe in the death penalty, but that doesnt mean he deserves sympathy or anything but a bullet
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EnragedSlith posted...

His rape/murder victim didnt get a last meal.

I dont believe in the death penalty, but that doesnt mean he deserves sympathy or anything but a bullet

there is always the possibility the death row inmate was innocent and wrongfully accused
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Doesn't deserve a last meal tbh
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halomonkey1_3_5 posted...

Backyard burger is headquartered in Nashville, serves a double burger, onion rings and Pepsi

ok
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

I have literally no idea how you got that from what I said.

UR does that shit all the time. He loves false dichotomy.

Don't wanna freak anyone out, but dude looks kind of like my dad.
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Tupacrulez posted...

Just hang the bastard.

that's right. but i think that guy deserves the firing squad at least he would go down with some dignity.
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Trump in 5 years.
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The real crime is the scumbag lived this long. Since 1985? Damn, expedite the process for fucks sake. 30 some odd years later is way too damn long to wait. The victims family could of died during that time. I hope the justice system is revamped in the future, so people like this get their trial and then executed in a quicker fashion. If it's beyond a shadow of a doubt I say do it the same day or the next day. People paid to feed this guy for years.
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God damn, the dude's been on death row since the 80s!?
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Solid Snake07 posted...

God damn, the dude's been on death row since the 80s!?

Not uncommon at all.
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Is Superburger still a thing? Could've been that
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_death_row_inmates_in_the_United_States

Actually some suprising statistics
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Mr_Biscuit posted...

The whole concept of the "last meal" offered to death row inmates always makes me profoundly sad and sits with me pretty poorly. It's something they enjoyed, some piece of the outside world, often something they have nostalgia for, simpler/better times. It's extremely humanizing, which you can argue is a good or bad thing with criminals like this, but either way is in stark contrast with the entire concept of the death penalty. Like, "here's one more good, enjoyable, pure thing before we kill you." I dunno. It's just eerie to me.

I'm not even saying anything for or against the death penalty here, it's just the cognitive dissonance that always jars me a bit.

My logical problem with lethal injection is best summed up by George Carlin: "In prisons, before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol! Well, you can see their point. You wouldn't want some guy to go to Hell and be sick! It would take a lot of the sportsmanship out of the execution."
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KillerKhan420 posted...

The real crime is the scumbag lived this long. Since 1985? Damn, expedite the process for fucks sake. 30 some odd years later is way too damn long to wait. The victims family could of died during that time. I hope the justice system is revamped in the future, so people like this get their trial and then executed in a quicker fashion. If it's beyond a shadow of a doubt I say do it the same day or the next day. People paid to feed this guy for years.

It's kinda mandated they get a few appeals at state level and at least one at supreme court level.

But I agree when it's an open and shut case and beyond a reasonable doubt among the jurors and that it's proven beyond circumstantial evidence it should be done quick
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kingdrake2 posted...

Tupacrulez posted...

Just hang the bastard.

that's right. but i think that guy deserves the firing squad at least he would go down with some dignity.

No. No dignity. He doesn't get that.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

Mr_Biscuit posted...

The whole concept of the "last meal" offered to death row inmates always makes me profoundly sad and sits with me pretty poorly. It's something they enjoyed, some piece of the outside world, often something they have nostalgia for, simpler/better times. It's extremely humanizing, which you can argue is a good or bad thing with criminals like this, but either way is in stark contrast with the entire concept of the death penalty. Like, "here's one more good, enjoyable, pure thing before we kill you." I dunno. It's just eerie to me.

I'm not even saying anything for or against the death penalty here, it's just the cognitive dissonance that always jars me a bit.

I don't see how.

"you're going to die so here's one last meal of your choice" is evil but "You're going to die so your last meal is piss and shit and some goat vomit" is fine?

1.) He didn't state that the idea was evil. What the fuck are you talking about?

2.) He didn't suggest the alternative of treating the convict like shit right before they die. Again, what the fuck are you talking about?

You're not a very nuanced thinker, are ya?
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Tupacrulez posted...

kingdrake2 posted...

Tupacrulez posted...

Just hang the bastard.

that's right. but i think that guy deserves the firing squad at least he would go down with some dignity.

No. No dignity. He doesn't get that.

ok but i still stand by my views that any form of murder be it involuntary manslaughter or assault that leads to someones death deserves the death penalty. wish the government would change the rules on this.
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