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October 23, 2018 05:00 pm PDT
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Pop-up restaurant serves last meals of death row inmates
Tokyo-based art collective ChimPom has opened a two-week pop-up restaurant that serves up the last meals once requested by real death row inmates.
For example, before being executed by firing squad in 1977, Utah double murderer Gary Mark Gilmore ate a burger, a hard-boiled egg, and mashed potatoes, and drank three shots of whiskey. Here is ChimPom's version of Gilmore's pre-execution eats:
— sequi@ya (@se_qui_ay) October 22, 2018
The Ningen ("Human") Restaurant is located in Kabukicho, Tokyo's red-light district, and is open until October 28 (2 PM to 9 PM).
— (@norima___k) October 22, 2018
10kg pic.twitter.com/RBIgQ9pvg6
— kazumin08 (@kazumin197608) October 22, 2018
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