Sometimes, Mr. LaValle said, two condemned men face each other for an unusual talk about sports, or their appeals.
Arsenal lost 2-0 to Napoli which, combined with Borussia Dortmund's late win over Marseille, meant that they finished second in group F on goal difference, and were condemned to face one of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atletico Madrid, Paris Saint Germain or Bayern Munich in the second round.
Those that do not grasp this reality are condemned to face an uncertain future.
"All those guilty of serious crimes and are condemned will face the full force of the law," Jammeh said on Sunday, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The question, delivered with Herzog's trademark deadpan Bavarian drawl, seems to come from nowhere and to bear little relation to the ongoing discussion about the last hours of condemned inmates facing death by lethal injection.
Certainly, the victims of all condemned killers faced much more brutal and undeserved ends and we should never forget the crimes against them.
Murphy later condemned "the ugly face of aggressive nationalism", while SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon described the fracas as "disgraceful" and "absolutely nothing to do with the SNP".
Projected on three screens, we see mercifully little of the "thousand cuts" carnage and much of the condemned man's face, blinking through an opium-smoke haze.
But no matter what form freedom of thought takes, we wonder what it can mean in a world where we're emotionally condemned not to face the truth of who we are.
Trade unions and artists have condemned the conditions faced by migrant workers building a £17bn cultural hub in the United Arab Emirates, including new branches of the Louvre and the Guggenheim museums, as akin to an open prison.
