The Lima (Ohio) News features a two part series with interviews of death row inmates.

The inmates were asked about appeals, about waiving appeals, about the prospect of being executed, and about how they spend their days. Some of their answers might make you mad. One comment was just plain depressing. What a waste. These are people who, if they hadn’t gone astray, might have led productive lives, allowing their victims to do the same.

One of the inmates interviewed is Kenneth Richey:

Ohio death row inmate Kenneth Richey is locked in a cell 23 hours a day and sleeps on a plastic mattress atop a warped sheet of steel. “It sucks,” he said. “This ain’t no … damn picnic. People out there think we’re having a pic-nic; this ain’t no picnic.” ....Living on death row is a tougher punishment than death, he said. “It’s a 24-hour a day torture,” the 40-year-old Richey said. “You have no life. You’re just ex-isting from one day to the next. Believe me, it’s an ... existence you don’t want.”

Richey maintains his innocence. Amnesty International says his treatment is one of the most barbaric cases it's seen.

Part One of the series is here.