While most prisoners on choose to go full out for their famous last meals – one lag decided he'd be humble for one very strange reason. Victor Harry Feguer was the last federal inmate to be put death in the state of Iowa, and was executed by hanging in 1963, aged 28. It was a seemingly random of a doctor he found through the Yellow Pages in 1961 that saw him sentenced to death.
Feguer called a Dr Edward Bartels who then drove to his location. Feguer took out his gun and forced Bartels to drive to Illinois where he shot the in the head before dumping the body in a field. It's thought Feguer wanted and when Bartels refused, he killed him.
The killer then tried to sell the car in Birmingham, Alabama, but was caught by the . Feguer professed his innocence despite the car, murder weapon, and Bartel's body being discovered – adding someone else must have murdered the doctor. Oddly, for his , Feguer requested a single olive with its stone.
Photographer Henry Hargreaves, who captured an image of Feguer’s meal, said: "It’s just such a polarising image. We think about last meals and is it something that’s going to be totally gluttonous, and then he just has a single olive. "You know, it’s so simple, beautiful and kind of final.
It’s like a full stop at the end of his life." However, it's been rumoured the real reason Feguer chose a single olive is because he hoped when he was buried that an olive tree would grow from his corpse. The night before his execution a guard repo.