now or later

Texas inmate kills self day of execution
Michael Graczyk, AP, 10/19/06

"He was taken to a hospital in nearby Livingston, where he was pronounced dead, Lyons said."

We'll leave the death penalty debate for another time (I suggest reading Dead Man Walking, before any discussion begins) but this is perverse logic.

If doctors had been able to revive him, they would have saved him only to be executed later.