Death Row chef who cooked for hundreds of inmates refused to serve one last meal

There's one thing those awaiting on Death Row probably look forward to and it's their final meal - but what if you didn't get that at all?

A chef that cooked for death row inmates facing execution at a Texas prison for over ten years, having been an inmate at Texas Huntsville Prison for 15 years himself.

Brian Price is known as the 'Death Row chef' and has prepared 218 final meals for those on Death Row - however, he revealed that there was one meal he refused to prepare.

In 1989, Price was sent to prison for assaulting his ex-wife and kidnapping his brother-in-law.

Upon his arrival, he was swiftly put to work into the kitchens despite his profession on the outside being that of a musician and a photographer.

Death row inmates used to be able to request final meals in Texas (Getty Stock Photo)

In several US states, inmates are allowed to request a final meal before execution, though the total cost of their request fluctuates depending on the state they are in, according to Discovery.

In Oklahoma, they can request a meal worth up to $25 (£19) while in Florida, inmates can request meals worth up to $40 (£30), though the food must be purchased locally.

The state of Louisiana even has a tradition where the prison warden joins the prisoner for their last meal.

But in Texas, the final meal was a tradition up until 2011, though Price was serving up dishes before then, also revealing that he took over from a friend when he couldn't serve the death row inmate's meals that day during an interview with the New York Times.

Brian Price refused to cook for one Death Row inmate (Discovery)

However, there was one convict that Price refused to cook for, and that was Leopoldo Narvaiz Jr, who was sentenced to death for stabbing his ex-girlfriend, her two sisters and brother to death in 1998.

According to The Daily Express US, it was because the chef had a connection to the victims - they were all friends of his daughters.

Narvaiz Jr was convicted of four counts of capital murder in 1998 and all four of his victims were aged between 11 and 19, so because of all this, Price handed the responsibility to someone else.

But that was the only person he refused to cook for, though there is little information available to the public about how their meals are prepared, or who cooks it up for them.

Price was candid in his interviews though, openly revealing to The Guardian in 2004 that he cooked for an inmate that shot a man dead in a grocery store robbery.

Death Row inmates in Texas have to eat whatever is on offer in the cafeteria on their final day (Getty Stock Photo)

Though he requested 'filet mignon', he was only able to cook a T-bone steak.

The convict thanked him for the dish through the sergeant, to which Price admitted: "That blew me away. I went back to my cell that night, and I really reflected upon it and that was probably the last thanks that guy gave anyone before he left this world."

But now, nobody in Texas gets to request their final meal after the actions of Lawrence Russell Brewer in 2011, when he ordered a feast, and refused to eat any of it.

Price responded to this ban, telling KSAT: “We should not get rid of the last meal. Justice is going to be served when this person is executed, but can we not show our softer side? Our compassionate side?”