A death row inmate asked to have a single olive for his last meal.

Victor Feguer was executed in the US state of Iowa in 2001 having been convicted of murder back in 1963 and made the unusual meal request in the hope that an olive tree would sprout from his grave to represent peace.

The meal choice was discovered by photographer Henry Hargreaves as he conducted research for his collection 'No Seconds', where he snapped recreations of prisoners' final meals.

Hargreaves told CBS News: "It's just such a polarising image.

"We think about last meals, and is it something that's going to be totally gluttonous, and then he just has a single olive.

"You know, it's so simple, beautiful and kind of final. It's like a full stop at the end of his life."

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