Once again, a state government official over-reacts

Big friggin’ deal. A white supremacist about to be executed by lethal injection orders a "last meal"containing more calories than the population of many African nations see in a lifetime and what happens? Texas prison officials cancel the policy of a "last meal."

So what if Lawrence Brewster ordered a last meal of two chicken fried steaks, a triple meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelet, a larger bowl of fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat-lovers pizza, three root beers, a pint of Blue Bell vanilla ice cream and a slab of peanut butter fudge?

So what if State Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, chairman of the committee that oversees the state prison system, fired off an angry letter to Department of Criminal Justice executive director Brad Livingston condemning the order demanding "last meals" must come to an end.

The sensible solution, the rational solution would have been for Livingston to limit what condemned prisoners may order for their last meal to (1) one entre (2) one veggie, (3) one non-alcoholic beverage and (4) one desert.

But then when have you ever heard of a state government official ever being sensible or rational?