Soldier in blue uniform : "Vier und zwanzig! Remember, Fritz, it's a six-shooter, so don't forget to reload this time! You already made a fool of yourself three times!"And this one captures well that moment of resignation on the part of the victim as well as the indifference of her executioners
09It is all in the lead-up, Roxie.
Even the slowest hanging is faster than dying crucified. But there are the days looking from your cell window at the women who precede you strangle on the rope... the same one that will take you...
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...or the hours you cannot decide if it life fleeting or a torturous wait...
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...they will come for you...
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...and the last to comfort you is the hangman...
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...and the trap will open and whether days on cross life ebbs from your body...
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...and you are done...
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Tree
Pressed by rocks. A good method when one doesn't want to draw blood for legal or ritual reasons.
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"La peine forte et dure" mentioned in Victor Hugo's L'homme qui rit ("The Man Who Laughs"). But in the novel it was more a form of torture than of execution.
Margaret Clitherow does not like this.Pressed by rocks. A good method when one doesn't want to draw blood for legal or ritual reasons.
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