Condemned man requests Italian for last meal
Daniel Anthony Lucas has asked for an Italian meal to be the last one he eats before his execution set for next week for the murders of a Jones County father and his two children.
According to the Department of Corrections, Lucas requested meat pizza, steak and cheese calzone, a stuffed portobello mushroom, chef salad with ranch and honey mustard dressings and orange juice.
Lucas, 37, will be given his last meal about three hours before the scheduled hour for his lethal injection, which is 7 p.m. on April 27.
If he is put to death, Lucas will be the fifth person Georgia has executed this year. Only twice since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 has Georgia put executed five killers in a year — in 2015 and in 1987.
Lucas, then 19, and Brandon Rhode were burglarizing the Moss family home the afternoon of April 23, 1998, when the first of two children came home from school.
The younger of the two got home first.
Bryan Moss saw Lucas and Rhode through the front window, ransacking his family’s house, so the 11-year-old armed himself with a bat and went inside. Lucas shot the boy.
Kristin Moss came home next. The two men also shot the 15-year-old girl.
Rhode shot the father, Steven Moss, when he got to the house on Griswoldville Road in middle Georgia.
Then Lucas shot the children again to be sure they were dead.
Rhode was executed on Sept. 27, 2010.
