The discussion isn't really going. In the maintime, for educational purposes I would post the story of the Briley brothers, who escaped from death row:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briley_Brothers#Escape
"Linwood and J.B. Briley were the ringleaders in the six inmate escape from Virginia's death row at Mecklenburg Correctional Center on May 31, 1984. During the early moments of the escape, in which a coordinated effort resulted in inmates taking over the death row unit, both Brileys expressed strong interest in killing the officers that they had taken hostage. They went so far as to douse captive officers in lighter fluid and were prepared to toss in a lit match to complete the action. Willie Lloyd Turner, another death row inmate, stepped in the way of James Briley and forbade him from doing so. Meanwhile, cop killer Wilbert Lee Evans prevented Linwood Briley from raping a female nurse who had been taken hostage while en route to delivering medication to inmates in the unit. These events were featured on I.D. Channel in Escape from Death Row.
Splitting off from their two remaining free escapees at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Brileys went to live with their uncle in the north of the city. They were captured on June 19 by a heavily armed group of FBI agents and police. Returned to Virginia, few sought to plead for their lives to be spared."
Also in 1998 in Texas:
"Shortly after midnight on Nov. 27, seven men awaiting execution in Texas made a run for freedom from the Ellis Unit prison in Huntsville.
Six were stopped by a hail of automatic rifle gunfire by tower guards. Officials say none were injured. But reporters and family members have been barred from seeing the men since their capture.
The six are Gustavo Garcia, Henry Dunn, James Clayton, Howard Guidry, Eric Cathey and Ponchai Wilkerson.
The seventh prisoner--Martin Gerule--made it over two 10-foot perimeter fences topped with razor wire. He has since eluded over 500 law-enforcement officers, dog teams and helicopters."
..and the treatment what imprisonment provides:
"Texas prisons are hell-holes. In 1980, a federal judge declared Texas prisons unconstitutional because of rampant brutality, lack of health care, overcrowding and denial of access to the courts."
I just included this here, because I was asked about proving DP less suffering than prison.
P.S.: This dude passed 4 jail employees with a fake ID, again on death row:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9922969/