A 305-pound death row inmate’s final feast exposes the bizarre theater of justice where a condemned double murderer gorges on a buffet while his victims’ families await closure after twenty years.
Story Snapshot
- Stacey Humphreys, 52, requested a massive buffet-style last meal including BBQ, pizza, wings, and ice cream before his Georgia execution
- He murdered two young real estate workers in 2003 during a robbery motivated by crushing payday loan debt
- His obesity and gluttonous final meal became the media focus rather than justice for victims Cyndi Williams and Lori Brown
- The Supreme Court refused his final appeals, clearing the way for Georgia’s first execution of the year
When Financial Desperation Turns Deadly
Stacey Humphreys walked into that real estate office in November 2003 drowning in debt from predatory payday loans and truck payments he couldn’t afford. What happened next transformed financial desperation into unspeakable evil. Armed with a stolen gun, he forced 33-year-old Cyndi Williams and 21-year-old Lori Brown to undress and provide their bank card PINs before executing them both in cold blood.
The brutality didn’t end with the gunshots. Williams’ underwear was tied so tightly around her neck it left prominent ligature marks and caused her tongue to discolor. Brown suffered throat hemorrhaging consistent with being choked in a headlock or struck violently. After murdering both women, Humphreys calmly withdrew $3,000 from their accounts before fleeing to Wisconsin, where police captured him after a high-speed chase.
A Confession Without Remorse
Under questioning, Humphreys initially claimed memory loss about the murders. But the facade crumbled quickly. He eventually admitted his guilt with chilling matter-of-factness: “I know I did it. I know it just as well as I know my own name.” His confession revealed the pathetic motivation behind the violence – he had gotten “over his head with that stinking truck” and couldn’t keep up with the crushing interest payments.
The confession sealed his fate. Georgia prosecutors secured a capital murder conviction, and Humphreys joined the 32 men on the state’s death row. For nearly two decades, appeals wound through the courts while the families of Williams and Brown waited for justice. That wait ended when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his case in October, and a federal judge denied his final stay request.
The Final Feast That Sparked Outrage
As his execution date approached at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison, Humphreys made one last selfish demand – a buffet that would make a glutton blush. His final meal request read like a carnival of excess: barbecue beef brisket, pork ribs, bacon double cheeseburger, French fries, coleslaw, cornbread, buffalo wings, meat-lover’s pan pizza, vanilla ice cream, and two lemon-lime sodas.
Obese death row inmate requests gluttonous buffet for last meal https://t.co/nRnT9CErl5 pic.twitter.com/EyCGnPqwIX
— New York Post (@nypost) December 12, 2025
The Georgia Department of Corrections released these details to the media, sparking immediate controversy. Here was a 6-foot-3, 305-pound killer – clinically obese by any medical standard – gorging himself one final time while the families of his victims prepared to witness the justice they’d waited twenty years to see. The optics were grotesque, and the public reaction was swift and merciless.
When Justice Becomes Spectacle
The media frenzy around Humphreys’ gluttonous last meal reveals something disturbing about our culture’s relationship with justice and punishment. Instead of focusing on the lives cut short or the families forever scarred, news outlets fixated on the killer’s obesity and his final indulgence. This perverted theater transforms capital punishment from solemn justice into macabre entertainment, reducing murdered victims to footnotes in their killer’s final act.
Other states have recognized this problem. Texas abolished special last meal requests in 2011 after public outrage over an inmate’s excessive final feast. Georgia should consider following suit. Condemned killers deserve basic human dignity, not elaborate catering that mocks their victims’ memory and taxpayers’ sense of justice.
