Debunked claim about Texas prisoner ordering a child for last meal among 2014 reader hits
The debunkists at Snopes.com beat us to finding invalid — not so — web posts suggesting a Texas man awaiting death by injection requested a child for his last meal.
The disproved tale is that Doug Stephener — described as a convicted murderer and cannibal — asked Texas authorities for a child no older than age 8 for his last meal before his execution.