The Death Penalty and the Last Meal

There have been notable instances throughout history that resemble last meals. Roman gladiators took part in a feast called siona librera labera, or sina labera. Aztecs provided feasts to captured warriors they selected for ritual sacrifice. Inmates in sixteenth century england shared a meal with their executioner. Thereis even a record of newgate prison having death row inmates stop at the pub on their way to the tiber an fair gallows. But since england abolished the death penalty in 19 65, these stories are all a relic of the past.