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Texas has banned last meal requests from Death Row inmates after a prisoner put in a huge order and didn't eat any of it.

Lawrence Russell Brewer asked for two chicken fried steaks, a bacon cheeseburger, a pound of barbecue meat, a pint of ice cream, a pizza, fudge and didn't eat a mouthful.

He was executed on Wednesday for the hate crime murder of James Byrd.

Prison official John Whitmire said he wanted the "ridiculous" and "inappropriate" practice ended or he'd seek a state statute banning it.

Prisons director Brad Livingston agreed and said the practice was ending immediately.

He said condemned inmates will get the same meal as other offenders.