One greedy killer had to go and ruin it for all Texas death-row inmates.

They’ll no longer get their choice of a last meal thanks to Lawrence Russell Brewer, who was executed — presumably on an empty stomach — Wednesday for the hate-crime slaying of James Byrd Jr. more than a decade ago.

Before he was strapped down, Brewer, a white supremacist, ordered the left side of the prison menu — two chicken-fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream and a slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts.

What, no whipped cream?

We’re not sure who’s the bigger knucklehead: Brewer or prison officials for fulfilling the ridiculous request.

Now, you think: Maybe Brewer was trying to clog his arteries before the lethal injection. But prison officials say he didn’t eat a bite.

Call him the Leftover Kid.

That was pretty hard to swallow. So, state Sen. John Whitmire sent a letter to the executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, wondering why the state indulges
society’s most evil.

Within hours, state officials announced that death-row inmates will receive the same meal that is served to other offenders on that day.

The change in policy “is long overdue,” Whitmire said. “This old boy ... enough is enough. We’re fixing to execute the guy and maybe it makes the system feel good about what they’re fixing to do. Kind of hypocritical, you reckon?”

The week before, inmate Steven Woods’ request included two pounds of bacon, a large four-meat pizza, four fried chicken breasts, two drinks each of Mountain Dew, Pepsi, root beer and sweet tea, two pints of ice cream, five chicken-fried steaks, two hamburgers with bacon, fries and a dozen garlic bread sticks with marinara on the side.

Two hours later, he was executed.

(Three hours later, the guards probably held a pot-luck dinner.)

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