Watching A Man Die

Richard Lake is scheduled to watch a man face death tomorrow. Naturally, he's apprehensive. He's looking for advice. Anyone ever do this? Any tips? Any examples of when it was done right?

I like this one, from Rick Bragg:

With the sting of a needle in his right leg, Timothy J. McVeigh was sedated, injected with poison and executed today by the government he so despised, a quiet end for the man who sent 168 people to their deaths in screams, flames and crushing concrete.
Mr. McVeigh, who was pronounced dead at 7:14 a.m. in the execution chamber of the federal prison here in Terre Haute, died unrepentant, without offering one word of regret for the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal…