No Seconds: Last Meals on Death Row by Henry Hargreaves

When someone commits unspeakable and inhumane crimes, it’s difficult to see them as one of “us”, a functioning human being within a collective society. When I stumbled across New York photographer Henry Hargreaves’ series of last meals on death row, I felt as if I was taking a peek into an intimate and private moment of a man in a lonely cell of regrets and looming death. These pictures for some reason humanizes these criminals, and a confusion of morbid fascination drew me in. I wondered what thoughts went through their mind when they took those last bites, knowing they would never taste them again. Talk about getting into the mind of a serial killer! *shivers*

Profiles of the murderers on Wikipedia: Ricky Ray Rector , Ted Bundy , Victor Feguer , John Wayne Gacy , Ronnie Lee Gardner , Timothy McVeigh , Angel Nieves Diaz ,   Allen Lee Davis.

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