The next time someone says to me, "Man you have such a weird sense of humor. What makes you so screwed up anyway? Was it your childhood? Is it the marijuana?" I will answer, "what do you expect? I live in a country where the state takes mentally ill death row inmates and give them drugs that make them temporarily sane so the state can legally execute them. That's WAY more fucked up than any joke I can think of."
It's like the end of 1984, where Winston is brainwashed and eventually lobotomized into the conformity demanded by the Party. Within a few weeks, months, or years, he will be publicly executed after confessing his crimes.
It's funny: Arkansas has this reputation as being a bunch of sister-screwing hillbillies with hookworm. Who knew they were on the cutting edge of the Brave New World?