The church bells toll out the noon hour. Stephy felt her stomach churn as she climbed the steps leading to the gallows’ platform. The noose grows larger with every step she takes. She is naked and her arms are bound behind her back. A very interested crowd mills around the gallows. There is nowhere to run and no place to hide. ‘Fuck it, Steph, the court of the king has condemned you to this’ Stephy thinks. ‘Make them see you aren’t afraid of their damn noose.’ Without hesitation she walks up to the noose.
Stephy is positioned so the noose hangs in front of her face. The drummer stops pounding his drum and announces “Citizens, before you stands Stephany Sneed who has been sentenced to death by being hanged by her neck from this gallows. By proper protocol you are expected to watch her execution with reverent silence.”
The warden of the prison stepped up to Stephy and slipped the noose over her head and placed it around her neck.
With a brave defiance Stephy screams “Fuck all of you! You have come to see me hanged so lets get it over with!”
The judge that condemned her to be hanged to death steps forward and says “Not so fast, Miss Sneed! There is a message from the King himself that must be read before you are hanged. Lady Cromwell, please read the statement.”
Lady Cromwell steps up on the platform and opens the scroll written and signed by the King of England. With her hands bound behind her back and the thick noose ensuring Stephy could not leave the platform, Lady Cromwell reads the message from the king.”
“Stephan Sneed, you have been convicted of numerous crimes of piracy at sea, the murder of sailors too many to count, and the heartless murder of Lady Barbara Moore. For these crimes you have been sentenced to death by hanging. His Majesty has provided a noose made of premium French rope the will slowly take you life as you are hanged by your neck until you are dead. May God find forgiveness for you soul the England cannot provide to you.”
Stephy felt a trickle of her urine run down her thigh. The warden bellows “Executioner, perform you duties.”
The executioner begins to turn the levers and Stephy rises on het toes. It is the last time her feet will touch the ground while Stephy is alive!
Stephy is positioned so the noose hangs in front of her face. The drummer stops pounding his drum and announces “Citizens, before you stands Stephany Sneed who has been sentenced to death by being hanged by her neck from this gallows. By proper protocol you are expected to watch her execution with reverent silence.”
The warden of the prison stepped up to Stephy and slipped the noose over her head and placed it around her neck.
With a brave defiance Stephy screams “Fuck all of you! You have come to see me hanged so lets get it over with!”
The judge that condemned her to be hanged to death steps forward and says “Not so fast, Miss Sneed! There is a message from the King himself that must be read before you are hanged. Lady Cromwell, please read the statement.”
Lady Cromwell steps up on the platform and opens the scroll written and signed by the King of England. With her hands bound behind her back and the thick noose ensuring Stephy could not leave the platform, Lady Cromwell reads the message from the king.”
“Stephan Sneed, you have been convicted of numerous crimes of piracy at sea, the murder of sailors too many to count, and the heartless murder of Lady Barbara Moore. For these crimes you have been sentenced to death by hanging. His Majesty has provided a noose made of premium French rope the will slowly take you life as you are hanged by your neck until you are dead. May God find forgiveness for you soul the England cannot provide to you.”
Stephy felt a trickle of her urine run down her thigh. The warden bellows “Executioner, perform you duties.”
The executioner begins to turn the levers and Stephy rises on het toes. It is the last time her feet will touch the ground while Stephy is alive!