8 pm
This is the time when all visitors banned from now. Chaplain and guards are the only people who are around. It is the time when also staff in the execution chamber have to test the equipment. In the US, lethal injections are used for execution. They make sure that straps on the guerny can hold the prisoner.
10:30am
Final lunch. Although it is still in the morning, the prisoner has been awake for 6 hours. They get to have a last lunch. They are given simple prison food.
3:30 pm
Dressing for execution. The kind of clothes they are given to wear is smarter than usual prison clothes. Before, they put the clothes on, they have time to shower as well.
4:00 pm
This is the time for the final meal. Unlike the other meals, the prisoners can write down what they like to eat. Furthermore, there is a budged for how much they can be spent. Some states have the budget for $15. The final meal is the first meal they get to choose in decades because they had been in prison for average of 20 years.
"Serial killer Ted Bundy ordered steak, cooked medium rare, fried eggs, hash browns, toast with butter and jam, all washed down with orange juice and milk. (crime museum, 2020)"
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