For killer Durlyn Eddmonds, executed in Joliet early on the morning of November 20, the answer was macaroni and cheese, fried chicken and apple pie. Death-row inmates in Illinois don't have to eat the cafeteria chow before walking the final mile. Although the last meals are paid for by profits from the prison commissary, inmates who ask for caviar likely will go to their deaths hungry.
Alcohol is always forbidden, but prisoners are invited to smoke 'em if they've got 'em.
They might even enjoy some high-level company out in the yard. It probably wasn't the last cigar he smoked, but it was the last one I smoked with him. Perhaps fittingly, last-meal requests in Illinois have been heavy on comfort food throughout the nineties, according to the Department of Corrections. Info Booth .