An inmate on death row in Georgia, grappling with obesity, has made headlines with his request for a lavish, calorie-packed last meal, featuring an array of meats and other indulgences.
Stacey Humphreys, aged 52, is facing execution by lethal injection this Wednesday for his role in a double murder. Ahead of this grim appointment, he plans to enjoy a gastronomic feast.
According to a statement from the Georgia Department of Corrections, Humphreys has requested a menu that includes barbecue beef brisket, pork ribs, a bacon double cheeseburger, French fries, coleslaw, cornbread, buffalo wings, a meat lover’s pan pizza, vanilla ice cream, and two lemon-lime sodas.
Measuring approximately 6-foot-3 and weighing 305 pounds, Humphreys meets the criteria for clinical obesity based on the CDC’s body mass index calculator.
The Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson is set to carry out Humphreys’ execution. He was convicted for the 2003 murders of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown, a crime for which he will now face the ultimate penalty.
Humphreys is scheduled to be put to death at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson for his conviction in the 2003 murders of 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown.
In November 2003, he entered a real estate office where the two women worked and cornered them at gunpoint with a stolen gun, forcing them to undress and hand over their bank card PINs before fatally shooting them both.
He also tied Williams’ underwear so tightly around her neck her neck “bore a prominent ligature mark and her tongue was protruding from her mouth, which had turned purple,” according to the Georgia Attorney General’s office.
The attorney general’s office also said Brown “suffered a hemorrhage in her throat that was consistent with her having been choked in a headlock-type grip or having been struck in the throat.”
Stacey Humphreys was sentenced to death for his conviction in the 2003 murders of Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown. (Cobb County Superior Court)
After killing the women, Humphreys withdrew $3,000 from their bank accounts.
The man was eventually taken into custody after a high-speed chase through Wisconsin.
Humphreys initially told police he did not remember murdering the women but admitted he knew he did it when questioned about why he fled.
“I know I did it. I know it just as well as I know my own name,” he told police.
He also told officers he had recently taken out some high-interest “payday” loans and that he “got over [his] head with that stinking truck.”
Stacey Humphreys is scheduled to be put to death at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. (Getty Images)
Humphreys’ lawyers sought to stay his execution, but a federal judge denied that request earlier this week. The U.S. Supreme Court refused a request to appeal in October.
His execution will be the first in Georgia this year.
A total of 76 men and one woman have been executed in Georgia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty nearly 50 years ago. There are 32 men and one woman still on death row in the Peach State.
