Apparently a black man in the US on death row has a better life expectency.
I've done some googling and it seems it is true that the best way to increase the life expectency of a black person in the US is to senetence them to death!
He might be on death row for 17 years, as one convict in a recent TV documentary had been.The practice of keeping men on death row for years seems universal there. Inside, they'll get proper health care, I expect, and they are certainly taken away from a dangerous style of life.