DaytonDailyNews.com

YOUNGSTOWN — Samuel Moreland of Dayton may always be known as the man who slaughtered two adults and three children in 1986.

But on Ohio's death row, Moreland, 55, is known as a recluse .

Not everyone here is as withdrawn as Moreland, but the death row wing of the Ohio State Penitentiary is a cheerless place.

For 18 hours a day, inmates are confined to a 7-feet-by-13-feet cell consisting of a stainless-steel toilet and sink, three metal shelves and a 5-inch-wide window. A fluorescent light is left on day and night. There is no cable television.

For up to six hours a day, in groups of no more than eight, inmates may visit a common area, go to the library or work out in the gym, which has a chin-up bar, an exercise bike, a drum set and a basketball hoop. An outdoor area consists of four brick walls topped with a metal grate.

Whenever an inmate leaves or returns to the cellblock, he shuffles in leg irons, handcuffs and belly chains into a nine-foot-high metal cage to be strip-searched.

Moreland may be on death row, but he counts himself among the majority of Americans who support the death penalty.

"If a person do wrong, he got to be dealt with," Moreland said. "Society got to be showing like we don't tolerate this type of behavior."