The death penalty is torture. One has only to look at life on death row in indonesia to know that proposition is, indeed, true. Threatened by death by Covid, the 355 prisoners on death row live in constant fear. Four are very old and have spent near ly half their lives in prison. Ten are women who have experienced sexual abuse and economic exploitation. Read this fascinatiating report by the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform: https://icjr.or.id/death-row-phenomenon-in-indonesia/.