Maybe the sedatives really dulled Benjamin's emotions and turned him into a shell of a human being who barely felt anything but one thing was certain.
Those four hundred inmates inside the prison were all on death row, which meant they were already waiting for the day the government would kill them anyway. Every single one of them had already been sentenced. Every single one of them had already run out of appeals, out of chances, and out of time.
In theory and in practice Benjamin was only speeding up something that was already going to happen sooner or later, and that mattered for many reasons.
One of those reasons was that even death row inmates still had families, and those families were going to protest no matter what happened. They were going to cry in front of cameras, stand outside government buildings with signs in their hands, and scream that their loved ones had been murdered.
