In lieu of the last meal on death row, a cigarette request is called "Unhealthy" absurd
Oct 31, 2024
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According to The Mirror and other foreign media, Clive Stafford Smith, a long-time human rights lawyer, said this while looking back on a death row.
He told the story of his client Nicholas Lee Ingram, who was sentenced to death in 1983 for a robbery that killed a 55-year-old man and injured his wife.
Nicholas was executed in April 1995, before asking the prison for cigarettes instead of his last meal.
But prison officers rejected his request, saying it was unhealthy.
Smith, a lawyer who heard the prison guards' absurd claims, exposed them to the media, and eventually, the prison guards handed Nicholas his last cigarette before the execution.
Smith said he and Nicholas were born in the same hospital in England, and it was sad to watch Nicholas, who had been friends for 12 years, die.
He said he still remembers the time vividly and complained that he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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