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Not only will he be given a lifetime of appeals, his food (three-squares), lodging (relatively clean and temperature-controlled, transportation (chauffered), exercise (with state-purchased equipment), and health care (including chemotherapy and transplants, if needed) will be taken care of, which will probably give him a greater chance of surviving into senior citizenship than normal day-to-day life in the burbs.

This is the state system, not federal. In California, it's not a perfect life. State confinement ain't terribly cushy, actually. Personally, and here you're going to kill me, I don't care if prisoners are somehwat OK cared for. THAT I do believe is a sign of a civilized society. I support the death penalty. But I'm proud that American prisoners are treated better than the European prisoners, even though they whine about our death penalty as abusive. Confinement conditions aren't pleasant. They really aren't. I know some wish them worse, and well, I won't get all excited too much if they do get worse. But state confinement ain't a picnic, and I'm proud of that fact that it's not downright gruesome.