I currently work in a prison as a nurse. From what I have seen, humans are remarkably adaptable to their conditions. I cannot imagine spending even five minutes in prison, with all my decision making ability stripped from me. But convicts have a remarkable ability to adapt. I think this is good, as we do not want a large population of insanely angry prisoners, many of whom are there for non-violent crimes.
I am against capital punishment. But I also feel that society's worst criminals, such as McVeigh, need a worse punishment than life in the general prison population. I say let's let Mr. McVeigh try to adapt to the next sixty years of his life in total isolation, in a six by eight cell, instead of the execution which he understandably desires. BlueJay