title: Psychiatry on death row.
abstract: The authors present the personal experiences of an attending physician in a Death Row in Ceylon (Sri-Lanka). Aspects of the execution scenario are presented and discussed with its implications for the protagonists: the condemned, witnesses, standers-by, authorities and society-at large.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D002203:Capital Punishment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners; D011570:Psychiatry; D013188:Sri Lanka