Natasha is to be hanged at ten this morning. She stands solemnly with her eyes shut. When the town bell tolls its tenth ringing Natasha will be hoisted up and hang by her neck until she is dead.
The guards had jovially informed the condemned prisoners they will slowly strangle to death. Natasha is about to learn what this means. The bell is done tolling and the executioners begin to hoist up.
As Natasha feet lift from the platform. Her eyes bulge as the weight of her body dangles beneath the noose around her neck. The rope puts pressure on her throat while her body begins to stretch her neck.
The executioners haven’t even tied off the rope and Natasha is already beginning to thrash trying to escape the noose. The rope doesn’t let Natasha speak but she squawks and gasps as she fights to breathe.
The cruelness of her hanging is the noose is well crafted. Yes, the thick rope hurts and already is restricting her ability to breathe but Natasha is not yet being choked by the rope. Her struggles become more animated.
At ten minutes after Natasha has been hanged her face begins to darken as breathing becomes more difficult. Her dance has become frantic.
At nearly fifteen minutes the noose has successfully closed Natasha’s throat. Her gasps are done and her thrashes become much more just her final thrashes.
At sixteen minutes Natasha succumbs to the merciless torment of the noose. Her face is dark and her lifeless body dangles still beneath the noose.
Natasha will hang from the noose until eleven when the second prisoner is brought out to be hanged. Her name is Dorothy Brown, convicted of adultery for having an orgy with the Boys from Detroit- a group of well-endowed black men.
“Does it take long to die” Dorothy asks.
“It will seem like forever” she is told.