States have a duty to ensure certain minimum standards of detention.
But in many countries, prison regimes are brutal. This is clear from an AI visit to US death row prisons, and reports of South Lebanon's Khiam detention centre. And in Nigeria prisoners of conscience have died. I've lived with the threat of death for 13 years. What I'm afraid of is what comes after death,' said Kenneth Ransom, an inmate on Ellis Unit One on the Texas state death row, two weeks before his execution.