State Assisted Suicide??

Florida executes man who wanted death sentence

Anyways, this guy, he’s pretty twisted... Strangled a fellow prisoner to force the state of Florida to execute him. Granted, the fellow prisoner in question was no saint either. -_- Ah...I’m not an opponent of capital punishment but still...

"Death penalty opponents said executing Blackwell would send a dangerous message to all prisoners serving life sentences.
"The message goes out to every lifer in the state," said Abe Bonowitz, executive director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. "If you don't like your life in prison, kill a prison worker or kill a fellow inmate and the state will assist in your suicide."

The issue of capital punishment is always such a controversial one. Is it better to be executed? Or to spend the rest of one’s life rotting in prison? I honestly don’t know which would be a more useful deterrent.