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e prison plate…shop。。。 even bags of lime for marking out the baseball diamond and the football gridiron … the cons played in what was known as The Pasture; and fall afternoons were greatly looked forward to at Cold Mountain。
On the right … once again … death。 Old Sparky his ownself; sitting up on a plank platform at the southeast corner of the store room; stout oak legs; broad oak arms that had absorbed the terrorized sweat of scores of men in the last few minutes of their lives; and the metal cap; usually hung jauntily on the back of the chair; like some robot kid's beanie in a Buck Rogers ic…strip。 A cord ran from it and through a gasket…circled hole in the cinderblock wall behind the chair。 Off to one side was a galvanized tin bucket。 If you looked inside it; you would see a circle of sponge; cut just right to fit the metal cap。 Before executions; it was soaked in brine to better conduct the charge of direct…current electricity that ran through the wire; through the sponge; and into the condemned man's brain。
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1932 was the year of John Coffey。 The details would be in the papers; still there for anyone who cared enough to look them out … someone with more energy than one very old man whittling away the end of his life in a Georgia nursing home。 That was
a hot fall; I remember that; very hot; indeed。 October almost like August; and the warden's wife; Melinda; up in the hospital at Indianola for a spell。 It was the fall I had the worst urinary in