What would you order for your last meal on Earth?
A condemned prisoner's last meal is a customary ritual, and they can pick the meal of their choice just before execution.
In the US, most states serve the meal one or two days before the execution, using the term "special meal". Alcohol and tobacco are usually not permitted.
In Florida, for example, the last meal must be purchased locally and the cost is limited to $40 (£31), while in Oklahoma it is as low as $15 (£12).
In September 2011, Texas abolished all last meal privileges after Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a huge amount of food, then did not eat it - claiming he wasn't hungry.
In 2017, two death row killers were put to death in Arkansas - in back to back executions for the first time in a US state for 17 years.
Convicted killer Marcel Williams, 46, ate fried chicken, banana pudding, nachos, two sodas and potato logs with ketchup.
Murderer Jack Jones, 52, tucked into fried chicken, potato logs with tartar sauce, beef jerky bites, three candy bars, a chocolate milkshake and fruit punch.
Jones was convicted of raping and killing Mary Phillips, 34, in 1995 and trying to murder her 11-year-old daughter. He also was convicted of rape and murder in Florida.
Williams was convicted of the 1997 kidnapping, rape and murder of 22-year-old Stacy Errickson. He also abducted and raped two other women.
Below, other fascinating pictures show the final feasts eaten by some of the most notorious death row inmates of the past.
Photographer Henry Hargreaves, from New Zealand, has recreated the dishes scoffed by evil killers including Ted Bundy , John Wayne Gacy and Timothy McVeigh.
He decided to focus his project on food served to death row prisoners after reading about the efforts to stop the 'last meal' tradition in Texas.
Henry admits he's intrigued by "the mix of the mundane and the extraordinary".
On his website , he says: "In New Zealand, and in fact nearly anywhere else in the developed world, the death penalty is just not even in the conversation.
"It is a remnant of an earlier era.
"This little bit of civility, 'hey we are going to kill you but what would you like to eat?' just jumped off the page.
"I felt it could be a really interesting idea to try to represent visually.
"Researching this topic strangely personalized these people for me and for a moment was able to identify with them through the common denominator of food."
Here are death row inmates last meals recreated by Henry :
Ted Bundy
In the 1970s, Bundy raped and murdered at least 36 young women in seven US states, bludgeoning them to death in particularly brutal fashion.
Described as a "sadistic sociopath", the charming and handsome necrophile sometimes decapitated his victims, keeping their heads as trophies.
He received three death sentences and died in the electric chair at Raiford Prison in Starke, Florida, on January 24, 1989, at the age of 43.
Bundy declined a 'special' meal, so he was given the traditional serving of steak (medium rare), eggs, hash browns, toast with butter and jelly, milk and juice.
Victor Feguer
Soon after arriving in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1960, Feguer lured Dr Edward Bartels to his decrepit boarding house, claiming a woman needed medical attention.
When Dr Bartels arrived, Feguer kidnapped him and then killed him in Illinois, shooting him in the head, before dumping his body in a cornfield.
Police believe Feguer had been trying to obtain drugs from Dr Bartels.
On March 5, 1963, at the age of 28, he was put to death by hanging at the Iowa State Penitentiary at Fort Madison.
For his last meal, Feguer requested a single olive with the pit in it.
Just before he was buried, the olive stone was found in his suit pocket.
John Wayne Gacy
Dubbed the "Killer Clown" on account of his children's party entertainer alter-ego, Gacy sexually assaulted and murdered 33 teenage boys and young men.
Active between 1972 and 1978 in Cook County, Illinois, his modus operandi was to lure his victims to his home where he would strangle them.
Convicted of 33 murders, he was sentenced to death for 12 of the killings and was executed by lethal injection at Stateville Correctional Center on May 10, 1994.
A former KFC restaurant manager, his last meal was suitably gluttonous.
Gacy, 52, who was a large chap, ordered 12 fried shrimp, a bucket of original recipe KFC, French fries and a pound of strawberries.
Timothy McVeigh
Oklahoma City bomber McVeigh wasn't messing about with starters or mains - when it came to his last meal, he went straight to dessert.
The 33-year-old opted for two pints of mint and chocolate chip ice cream.
He was executed by lethal injection for killing 168 people by blowing up a truck outside a federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
McVeigh, a Gulf War veteran, was seeking revenge against the federal government for its handling of the Waco siege and Ruby Ridge incident.
Ricky Ray Rector
Rector was either an eternal optimist or he just had a grisly sense of humour.
For his last meal, he ordered steak, fried chicken, Cherry Kool-Aid and pecan pie.
However, he left his dessert, apparently telling a guard he was saving it for later.
Rector, was executed by lethal injection on January 24, 1992, for the 1981 murder of police officer Robert Martin in Conway, Arkansas.
After killing a man in a nightclub, he had agreed to hand himself in, but instead shot Officer Martin in the back when he was negotiating his surrender.
He then shot himself in the head in a failed suicide attempt .
Stephen Anderson
Hitman Anderson kept things simple for his last meal, opting for two grilled cheese sandwiches, cottage cheese, corn, peach pie, chocolate chip ice cream and radishes.
A few short hours after, he was executed by lethal injection at California's San Quentin State Prison on January 29, 2002, at the age of 48.
While serving time for burglary at Utah State Prison in the early 1970s, Anderson murdered an inmate, assaulted another and attacked a guard.
He also admitted to six contract killings in Las Vegas.
In November,1979, he escaped from prison and committed a contract killing in the eastern mountains of Salt Lake County, Utah.
He went on to shoot an 81-year-old woman dead during a burglary and was found by police sitting in her home watching TV and eating noodles.
Angel Nieves Diaz
He can't have been watching his weight, so it must have been the prospect of certain death that killed Nieves Diaz's appetite.
The murderer and armed robber declined any sort of meal before he was executed by lethal injection - after a botched attempt - on December 13, 2006.
Nieves Diaz, from Puerto Rico, was convicted of shooting and killing a strip club manager in 1979 and sent to Florida State Prison.
The 55-year-old's final statement was: "The state of Florida is killing an innocent person. The state of Florida is committing a crime, because I am innocent.
"The death penalty is not only a form of vengeance, but also a cowardly act by humans.
"I'm sorry for what is happening to me and my family who have been put through this."
Ronnie Lee Gardner
Surf and turf was on the menu for violent criminal Gardner who ordered lobster tail and steak for main course then apple pie and vanilla ice cream for dessert.
He also requested the Lord of the Rings trilogy to watch.
In October 1984, Gardner killed a man during a robbery in Utah.
While being transported to a court hearing in April 1985, he then shot dead attorney Michael Burdell in a failed attempt to escape.
He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the first incident and given the death penalty for the second.
On June 18, 2010, he was executed by firing squad at Utah State Prison.
Allen Lee 'tiny' Davis
Davis was nicknamed "Tiny" in an ironic nod to his considerable heft - so it's no great surprise that his menu was a little on the heavy side.
He polished off lobster tail, friend potatoes, 8oz of fried shrimp, 6oz of fried clams and half a loaf of garlic bread, washing it down with a litre of root beer.
In May 1982, Davis killed Nancy Weiler in Jacksonville, Florida, beating her "beyond all recognition" with a handgun, hitting her at least 25 times.
He was also convicted of shooting dead her two daughters, aged nine and five.
When he was executed in the electric chair in July 1999, he bled profusely from his nose and suffered burns to his head, leg and groin area.
All subsequent executions in Florida have been by lethal injection.
Teresa Lewis
Lewis' last meal looked more like something off a children's menu, consisting of fried chicken, peas with butter, apple pie and Dr Pepper.
She was sentenced to death by lethal injection for the murders of her husband and stepson in October 2002.
Lewis paid two men to kill her husband Julian Lewis and his son Charles.
Her plan was to profit from a $250,000 life insurance policy her stepson had taken out as a US Army reservist when he expected to be deployed to Iraq.
She was caught after trying to withdraw $50,000 from her husband's account.
In September 2010, at the age of 41, she became the first woman to be executed by lethal injection in the state of Virginia.
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Back in the 1920s, things were a lot simpler - including last meals.
Convicted killers Sacco and Vanzetti ate basic meal of soup, meat, toast and tea.
Italian-born US anarchists, they were convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during an armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, in April 1920.
A jury took just a few hours to find them guilty and seven years later, they were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison.
In 1977, after years of further investigations, the Massachusetts Governor proclaimed that they had been unfairly tried and convicted.
He said that "any disgrace should be forever removed from their names", but he did not proclaim them innocent. The case remains open.
Ronnie Threadgill
Unfortunately for Threadgill, Texas abolished the last meal in 2011, so when he was put to death two years later, he was served the same food as every other inmate.
That meant his final feast consisted of baked chicken, mashed potatoes with country gravy, vegetables, sweet peas, bread, tea, water and punch.
In April 2001, Threadgill shot dead Dexter McDonald, who had just left a nightclub in Navarro County and got into a car.
He got into the car and drove off before stopping to dump McDonald's body.
In July 2002, he was sentenced to death by lethal injection.
His final words, before he killed at the age of 40, were: "To my loved ones and my dear friends, I love y'all and appreciate y'all for being there.
"I am going to a better place. To all the guys back on the row, keep your heads up, keep fighting. I'm ready. Let's go."
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