Time off

I read somewhere last week that some US prisoners currently serving life sentences want the death penalty. More detail than that would be helpful - but I can now not find reference to the article - but I do know that I read it the same day I read that Jack Kervorkian had been released from prison. This raised the question - what if Kervorkian had not been released early (for good behaviour) but had been transferred to those prisons where the long-term inmates would prefer their stay not be so "long term". Funny too that there would be such a thing as "good behaviour" if you've been imprisoned for what some consider "bad" behaviour eg assisting terminally ill people to kill themselves.