The Bangkok Hilton is installing cameras in the death row to publicly broadcast the lives of prisoners waiting for execution - it doesn't help that they don't plan to show the execution itself. That convicted criminals also have human rights is unfortunately repeatedly ignored. And in doing so, the state ultimately puts itself on the same level as the criminals. It is therefore not surprising that similar practices in the USA - at least in part - are already commonplace. That capital punishment itself is one of the most inhumane ideas a society can have (unlike all other common punishments, it is not reversible or at least compensable in case of error) is beyond question anyway. I cannot regard states with capital punishment (and thus ultimately a legal system based on ideas of revenge rather than protection of society) as particularly civilized...