I think knowing that you will be put to death, eventually, would be rather hard to live with.
I would have rather he was given life. With life he would be in the general population and would be dead withing 3 years. There was already one attempt before the verdict.
Now he goes to a special place where he almost can't get killed by other prisoners and the whole deal will cost us around another 10 million.
I would rather he was executed for free in prison by inmates.