Yeah, it is, and I'm all for it. Think about it--if you knew the day, hour and minute you were going to die, where it was going to happen, how it was going to happen, who was going to be there--it'd drive a normal man crazy as the clock and calendar clicked you closer every minute.
I think, that because of the constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment a law should be passed calling for execution in a timely and predictible manner.
And no more of this lethal injection non-sense. It's supposed to be a punishment. We're not putting an unwanted dog down; we're executing a criminal! Public hanging is traditional and educational. This Tookie should have been hanged by the county of Los Angeles many years ago.