Georgia Dept of Corrections Marcus Ray Johnson Georgia Dept of Corrections

A DEATH ROW inmate’s last meal request for a six-pack of beer has been denied.

The Department of Corrections in the US state of Georgia said in a statement this week that Marcus Ray Johnson’s request was denied because alcohol is contraband.

Johnson requested a last meal consisting of a six pack of beer. His request was declined as alcohol is a contraband item…

Instead, the statement continued, he will be receiving the same meal as other condemned inmates:

Baked fish portions, cheese grits, dry mixed beans, cole slaw, cornbread, crisp drop cookies and fruit punch.

He is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 7 pm Thursday (midnight Irish time).

Johnson, 50, was convicted of the March 1994 rape and murder of Angela Sizemore, a woman he’d met in a south Georgia nightclub.

He was been on death row since March 1998.

His lawyers have argued he shouldn’t be executed because doubts remain about his guilt.

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However, Dougherty County District Attorney Greg Edwards says there is no doubt that Johnson killed Sizemore.

Contains reporting by the Associated Press.

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