17 Death Row Requests You Won't Believe Were Made

By Tom Butler /

15. Ronnie Lee Gardner

Utah Department of Corrections/New Line Cinema

Ronnie Lee Gardner was convicted of two counts of murder in 1985, and was executed by firing squad 25 years later in 2010. His meal of lobster tail, steak, vanilla ice cream, and apple pie was fairly standard, although Gardner specifically requested that he eat the meal while watching Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

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