Victor Feguer
Feguer didn’t ask for a proper meal. He asked for a single olive, complete with his pit, instead of a luxurious feast. The executed man wished to cultivate an olive tree as a sign of goodwill from his last resting spot. Photographer Henry Hargreaves, capturing prisoners’ last meals, described his CBS News question as “simple, beautiful, and kind of final… Like a full stop at the end of his life.”
Single Olive
Jonathan Nobles
Although on death row, Jonathan Nobles sought faith for double murder — and in turn, remorse. He was executed in 1998 for killing Kelly Farquhar(24) and Mitzi Nalley(21). But, after turning to Catholicism during his imprisonment, only before the lethal injection, he lamented. “I don’t think I’m the monster who perpetrated these terrible acts,” he added. “Nothing I can do for 1,000 years can relieve me of my responsibility.”
Jonathan Nobles