life on death row is normally 23 hours a day in the cage, 1 hr for exercise, and you get something like 3 showers a week.. no human interaction and some places practice extreme sensory deprivation - where there is no mental stimuli, interaction, and they never turn the lights off... perfect recipe for creating a situation of utter despair and psychosis.
Fight the Death Penalty in USA - Articles Death row prisoner Howard Guidry
people in this country like the death penalty like they like their wars, "clean" and out of sight.. anything to cover up the inherent dirtiness of the act. personally, seeing the public all riled up over someone's impending death brings these images to mind...
http://www.geocities.com/richard.cla...om/fariba1.jpg http://www.sikhsundesh.net/execution.jpg http://isaacschrodinger.typepad.com/.../stoning_1.jpg