The human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith told LADbible how one of his friends was denied his last wish for food at Death Row prison before his execution in 1995 because it was...bad for his health, unilad.com reports.< /p>
Nicholas Ingram was just 19 years old in 1983 when he killed JC Sawyer in Marietta, Georgia and injured the victim's 31-year-old wife.
Born in the UK, Ingram moved to the US and held dual citizenship - British and American.
After breaking into his victims' home in Cobb County, he led them into the woods behind the house and tied them to a tree with rope and wire. He then taunted them, taunted them and shot them at point-blank range. By some miracle Mary survived
Today, attorney Smith mentioned to LADbible the "disgusting" details of the use of the electric chair, as well as the "absurd" reason they denied Ingram his last meal - a burger and chocolate.
„I've lost six friends over the years. The electric chair is just disgusting - running 2,400 volts of electricity through someone's head.
„Nicky Ingram and I were born in the same hospital in Cambridge and I had to watch him die. I liked Nicky, we had been friends for 12 years when he was killed.
When they refused Nicky the burger and chocolate and offered him to change his wish, he told them - "I don't want a last meal, you will kill me". His friend asked if they would give him one last cigarette. They refused because that was also harmful. "You've got to be kidding me, you're planning to kill this poor guy" - reacted the lawyer.
"I came out and told the media about it, so they gave him one last cigarette, but then they shaved his head and legs and put 2,400 volts through him - it was just disgusting," the lawyer returns the tape.