A 52-year-old Georgia man set to die by lethal injection this week has requested a final meal fit for an all-you-can-eat buffet — a greasy, gluttonous farewell that’s drawing nationwide attention.
Stacey Humphreys, who stands 6-foot-3 and weighs roughly 305 pounds, will be executed Wednesday at the Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. Prison officials confirmed that his final meal request includes barbecue beef brisket, pork ribs, a bacon double cheeseburger, fries, coleslaw, cornbread, buffalo wings, a meat-lover’s pizza, vanilla ice cream, and two lemon-lime sodas.
“It’s one of the biggest last meal requests we’ve ever seen,” a former Georgia corrections officer told the Atlanta Journal-Review. “He didn’t just order dinner — he ordered an entire tailgate.”
Humphreys’ weight classifies him as obese under the CDC’s BMI guidelines, a detail that has only fueled public fascination with his indulgent request.
Humphreys was convicted of murdering two women — 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown — in a horrific 2003 attack inside a real estate office in Cobb County.
Prosecutors said Humphreys, armed with a stolen handgun, forced the women to undress and give up their bank card PINs before fatally shooting them. Williams was strangled so tightly with her own underwear that investigators described a “deep ligature mark” across her neck. Brown suffered a massive throat hemorrhage consistent with being choked or struck in the neck.
After killing them, Humphreys withdrew $3,000 from their bank accounts and fled the state. He was caught days later after a high-speed chase through Wisconsin.
When questioned by police, Humphreys initially claimed memory loss but later confessed. “I know I did it,” he told investigators. “I know it just as well as I know my own name.”
He also admitted his motive may have been financial desperation. “I got over my head with that stinking truck,” he said, referring to high-interest payday loans he had taken out before the murders.
Humphreys’ legal team filed multiple appeals over the years, citing mental health concerns and procedural issues, but those efforts have failed. A federal judge denied his final stay request earlier this week, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in October.
His execution will mark Georgia’s first of 2025 — and the state’s 78th since the death penalty was reinstated nearly five decades ago.
According to the Georgia Department of Corrections, 33 inmates — 32 men and one woman — remain on death row in the state.
Humphreys’ execution comes amid renewed national debate over capital punishment. President Donald Trump announced this week that he plans to restore the death penalty in Washington, D.C., as part of a sweeping federal crime crackdown.
“The era of leniency for killers is over,” Trump said during a Thursday press conference. “If you take a life, you may lose your own.”
Georgia has long been one of the nation’s most active death penalty states, alongside Texas and Florida. The state’s last execution occurred in March 2024.
As Humphreys prepares for his final moments, his chilling words from two decades ago still haunt those who remember the crime. “I know I did it,” he confessed — and on Wednesday night, Georgia will make sure he pays for it.
Would you like me to make a Republican-leaning or Democrat-leaning version next (for tone and framing differences around Trump’s quote and the death penalty debate)?
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Never gave menu of his order
why did it take 22 years to bring him to justice for a horrific crime?