Gilbert Postelle: Oklahoma killer had MASSIVE last meal of nuggets, sandwiches and frappé
OKLAHOMA, US: 35-year-old Gilbert Ray Postelle was executed Thursday morning for his role in a 2005 quadruple murder at an Oklahoma City trailer park. And before his execution, he had a massive meal of chicken nuggets, fries, sandwiches, cola, and caramel frappe.
Postelle killed 4 people on Memorial Day, 2005, in Oklahoma. And after a series of lawsuits and investigations, Postelle was executed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at 10.14 am on Thursday, February 17, 2022, according to a DOC spokesman, Justin Wolf. Postelle did not make any final statement on Thursday before his execution. Oklahoma Attorney General John O'Conner has also tweeted about Postelle's execution on Twitter.
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Gilbert Ray Postelle's last meal
According to a report by the Oklahoman, before his execution, Postelle wished to have a massive meal. He ate 20 chicken nuggets with various sauces - ranch, BBQ, and honey mustard dipping sauces, three huge ketchup-flavored fries, a crispy chicken sandwich, one chicken sandwich, a large cola, and one caramel frappe. The meal was approximately 3,872 calories. He ate the meal nicely and then he was executed.
What did Gilbert Ray Postelle do?
On Memorial Day in 2005, Postelle killed four people outside a trailer in Del City in what he claimed was a connection to his father’s motorcycle accident that left him badly injured. He reportedly used an AK-47 stifle rifle when he killed James Alderson, 57, Terry Smith, 56, Donnie Swindle, 49, and Amy Wright, 26. Postelle shot Donnie Swindle, the trailer's resident the most. Postelle's father had accused Swindle of causing his motorcycle accident the year before.
Postelle was sentenced to death for two of the murders and to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the other two
During the time of the crime, Postelle was 19 years old but in December of last year, he claimed he didn’t remember the murders because of his methamphetamine use around the time of the attack, according to The Sun.
Postelle testified, "I do understand that I’m guilty and I accept that. There’s nothing more that I know to say to you all than I am truly sorry for what I’ve done to all these families."
State lethal injections in Oklahoma
The execution is the state’s fourth since October and comes just over a week before a federal trial is set to start in a lawsuit accusing Oklahoma of using unconstitutionally cruel lethal injection drugs during executions. Oklahoma previously had a six-year moratorium on executions after a series of botched killings but brought back the practice last year.
Those against the death penalty condemned the execution and argued the state shouldn’t have killed Postelle. The 35-year-old reportedly had a learning disability with an IQ in the low 70s and dropped out of public school where he was a special education student at the age of 12. As a child, Postelle was also abandoned by his mother and began abusing methamphetamine daily as a teenager.