text: Funny. I asked that same question a few days ago. And somebody had said that they do that to show that even a person is in dealth row, he/she is being treated equally as anyone else.\n\nIt does make sense if you think about it. Just because they are a convict on death row doesn't mean that they arent a human being.\n\nI think the question is why do they sterilize the area where the needle is being put into before lethal injection?