Six tacos, six glazed doughnuts, one Cherry Coke... She started with the taco-doughnut dinner, painting it across an old government ledger. And the more she read about execution-day meals, the more she was struck by the exactness of these final choices. She began seeking notices of executions around the country and painting more last meals, often rendering food and nothing else, each image disarmingly matter-of-fact: meals of fried fish and ice tea (Alabama); pizza and banana pudding with meringue (Arkansas); two Arby's roast beef sandwiches (North Carolina); broiled crawfish (Louisiana); a head of lettuce (California); lobster tails and 7Up (Utah); fried rice, bananas, boiled eggs and wheat bread (Virginia). An Indiana man requested that his mother prepare her chicken dumplings.