Other hunger strikers were said to be showing signs of sight and memory loss, vomiting and urinating blood, and suffering from fever and numbness (26 July 1996).

Reports concerning Alabama had further alleged the practice of handcuffing prisoners to a hitching rail in the hot sun as punishment for refusal to work, causing numbness, dizziness and pain.

I remember when I started practicing Buddhism 14 years ago, and I was told that the end of this practice was to be happy, I said, How could you be happy and live in this world of suffering and live in this world of pain? I mistook happiness for a lot of other things, like numbness or decadence or selfishness.