Editing Ricky Ray Rector (section)

===Last meal===
For his [[last meal]], Rector requested and received a steak, fried chicken, cherry [[Kool-Aid]], and [[pecan pie]]. As noted above, Rector left the pie on the side of the tray, telling the corrections officers who came to take him to the execution chamber that he was "saving it for later."<ref name="Grant2012" /><ref name=Hitchens/> The slice of pecan pie was not disposed of until Rector had been executed.<ref name="Clarence">{{cite book |last1=Lusane |first1=Clarence |title=African Americans at the Crossroads: The Restructuring of Black Leadership and the 1992 Elections |date=1994 |publisher=South End Press |location=Boston |page=158 |url=https://www.questia.com/read/102120253/african-americans-at-the-crossroads-the-restructuring |url-access=subscription  |access-date=2018-08-26 |archive-date=2018-08-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180826113635/https://www.questia.com/read/102120253/african-americans-at-the-crossroads-the-restructuring |url-status=live |isbn=}}{{ISBN?}}</ref>