Menus of Condemned Taken Off Internet Site
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The final meals of executed prisoners are off the menu on the Texas prison system’s Internet site.
Texas, which leads all U.S. states in executions since a national death penalty ban was lifted in 1976, had listed details of the meals on the prison system’s Web site, www.tdcj.state.tx.us.
But Michelle Lyons, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said they were removed last week during a redesign of the site.
“We had some complaints from people in both the U.S. and abroad that it might be in poor taste to distribute that information on the Web site,” she said.
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