Speculating about the Orwell's laughts when the prisioner is executed, I find my self in a hardest trouble to understand his reaction. I think that everybody needs to find a way to release our uncomfortable feelings, and sometimes this way is laughting even people are not happy. In my opinion, Orwell found a manner to keep his horrific and undesirable thoughts off of his mind for a while. It doesn't mean that he suddenly felt good again, instead he felt so bad he could not believe what he saw, and in fact unrealistic events went across that moment. Nerviousness sometimes flourish in smiles and others non-realistic ways. If he didn't care about that day, he would not have written this essay. (by the way, it was a hard essay to read prof. Hodges :)

I agree, Maria, it is a hard essay to read, but you've done such a beautiful job analyzing it I know it was not beyond your abilities. :) It had not occurred to me that the dog might have seen enough executions to know that one was underway. That's a surprising insight for me. Thank you. There is much more to admire about your comments, but I'll let your classmates praise what they like most.

This was a difficult essay to read.
I was impressed with the physical description ( shaven head, vague liquid eyes) of the man who was about to be executed especially

with his thick sprouting moustache which I think represented him as a Anti-social person. This representation of himas a anti-social

person was reinforced when six tall indian warders were guarding him to take him to the gallows. This person didn't beg for his

life or cried when the rope was around his neck and appeared ready to die when he began to recite " Ram, ram.....".

Another surprising thing to me was dog behaviour towards the prisoner as if he was warning the prisoner not to keep walking torward

the gallows since his steps would lead to his dead.

George orwell's prevailing view was that capital punishment is always wrong .He showed that clearly in the passage,how wrong it is to kill another human being.For example, in paragragh 2,Orwell describes the prisoner as "quite unresisting, yielding his arms limply to the ropes" .This showed how painful it is for one to give his life willing without any objection. After reading the passage, i was considering the situation in which one can give himself up to be killed.It was so painful to know the state of his mind perhaps he has already forgoten everything about life. In some situations like that ,some people will even want to kill theselves instead of going through that pain.The writer was so empathetic to the prisoner. This was shown when he stated clearly in paragraph 10:"When i saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle, i saw the mystery,the unspeakable wrongness of cutting a life short when it is in full tide." When i came across this i felt like crying but when i remember that this prisoners don't normally have human feelings when they want to operate.I believe this punishment acts as a deterrent to other criminals morever, death is an appropriate punishment for someone who commit a terrible crime

FLORECE CONTINUED-----------------Perhaps if he was left alive, he would have gone into a lot of things unspeakable such as killing, kidnapping, robbery and so on besides,the death penalty saves thounsands of tax money that would be spent to keep criminals in prison for life. The writer also expressed his feelings at the gallows when he stated in paragraph 13, that "Everyone had changed colour.The indians had gone grey like bad coffee,and one or two of the bayonets were wavering." AFter the hanging, the writer expressed their emotions because they were all involved.This was also shown when he stated that ," the supreintendent backed out from under the gallows, and blew out a deep breath. The moody look had gone out of his face quite suddenly. This has shown that they were all involved emotionally but at last they were able to subdue their emotions.

Hi this is salena. This essay tough to understand. I could not figure it out why the man had been executed? As far as i figure it

out might be he was anti-social worker, i am agree with tabinda in this case. George Orwell described the mans outlook and

attitude very sharply. G Orwell said" he was a hindu with a shaven head and vague liquid eyes. I have been facinated on that

man who was going to be executed. He knew everything about his executed but he did not beg for his life, did not cry and he

did not look miserable. They had been brought out of his cell to gallows in that walk way he stepped slightly aside to avoid a

puddle on the path. This is big mystery that one person knows he is dying but he is not agree to step puddle.I can speculate the

man was not afraid because before hanging he just recite his god name instead scare.

The writer saw this incident very closely. In paragraph 2 the writer compared the man with fish.he said "it was like men

handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water".The other members were waiting for his hanging.They called

him "he was very troublesome" on the other hand a dog came there to give him goodbye hug and wanted to lick him.I have been

surprised to read this due to people had no reaction they were busy to execute him.I think this was painful for writer and the

animal.

Tabinda, first I think that with the prisoner's physical description, the author just implied his disapproval about taking a life of a very conscious and healthy person in that manner. The author deplored that and could not understand why do they have ``to cut short" somebody's life. You might see him as an anti- social but he stills a human being. And you know what I keep asking myself why does the author have to put the dog in the process? But this makes me relax a little. How the dog act and show his compassion to the prisoner, I could easily deduce that THIS DOG HAS BEEN MORE HUMAIN THAN THE HUMAINS THEMSELVES. Its sounds funny but every situation shows that. For example when the hanging was about to be late, the superintendent of the jail yelled "for God's sake hurry up, the man ought to have been dead by this time". The only thing that is important to this superintendent is his time. Also see how the other prisoners too were so concern about their breakfasts. So, they all didn’t think about the human who is going to be killed. That is very inhuman. After killing him, they all quickly forget about this killing and having fun. Only the dog was upset. Then does the dog more human than humans?

Hi Elisabeth! Yes, in this case the dog by his behavior did prove to be more human than the humans. I think that some humans do not understand the value of human's life, and this is why some people act so callous as if unhuman. Orwell in the simple event of the prisoner avoiding a puddle, recognized and apperciated the prisoner's natural qualities like good health, consciousness, and ability to reason; the author regarded the prisoner as having value. So, destroying something that is valuable is wrong. Additionaly, killing someone brings a loss for all mainkind. Did he not think this way when he said" one mind less, one world less"'?

Hi , this test is really something, too difficult to undestand. I had to read it three times. Elisabeth i strongly agree with you, that dog were more human than those men. As Maria said, the dog knew what were going to happen and try to beg and defend him.The dog was the only interesting actor af this test, the only one with a heart. Even if the writer couldn't stop it because i know that its beyond his capacity, he should have not taking part of that. I better quit that kind of job than watching someone died in front of me and doing nothing.I still don't get why we should take someone life just like that even if they are murderer. I wonder what go on in their mind after they are sentenced. And this superintendent is heartless,how can an human being be so hurry to take another human being life? it is so horrible. After killing they just forget about it as if nothing happen. What is scandalous is that they don't even care to know if that man were wrongly accused or not because most of the time, they make mistakes and condamned the wrong person. I think that they have to stop that capital punishment. It is so unfair and so wrong...

Hello Elizabeth, I’m totally concurring with you. Actually I find this essay very hard to understand it ,but I re- read many times to figure out what going on in this miserable essay I find George Orwell with this recounting offer us to discover how the human being can forget his humanity, for me it was so hard to accepted the way that treat the prisoner as animal and animal sometimes can comprehend what mean human life I can see easily how George desire to describe everything from the light until gallows stood, also he describe that people dying emotionally then dying physically ,the thing that surprise me that the prisoner taking him to ending his life and his looking quiet and not begging for his life the only thing he did just crying .they decide to stop his life without any mercy or clemency. the only noise it was making through dog barking that’s the animals can be more sensitive then human being and realize what is going on ,furthermore I can’t conceive how people can witnessed this hanging and how rush they were to finish this case without any given time to prisoner to relish the last moment of his life or asking him for anything for last time in contrast they treating him without any feeling, instead he was alive as everybody else was there .and how the condition that accompany the execution it was horrible I couldn’t believe theirs somebody like that without any heart or feeling they finished and they start laughing and have drink and forget about that prisoner as hi never was in this world.

Hi, I am really impressed by the quality of the Essay and my co-classmates responses and explanations.

First - my reply to Tabinda Kashif.
for your kind attention Ms.Tabinda Kashif. - a mere physical description of a human - does not imply/ confer any information about his behavior / habits or His personality.
same way - if you consider - a physical description of a nice great looking, well groomed Euro-American person as Good social person- that will express your innocence in judgement.

You have not provided with any information about why the person- who hanged at the end - came to this prison, what kind of event that led to this situation- is not at all explained. No body agrees with your opinion of judging the human by his physical description. He can be brave freedom fighter, or great warrior. If you think humans with sprouting mustache -as Anti social person- then at least 10% of world population itself is anti-social.
Well built body physique - is a common phenomenon for freedom fighters/ warriors, even for normal humans. so because of his physique - the author may have said that six tall warders were guarding him to the gallows.
He didn't beg or cried for his life- because he may have convinced himself that the punishment was right for his activities, or else he can be proud to hanged for a noble cause.

Second - my reply to Florence oledimma :-
"but when i remember that this prisoners don't normally have human feelings when they want to operate."
why prisoners- don't normally have human feelings, they are also humans with all normal feelings.
Most of the Great Leaders in the world - had been a prisoner for some time in their life. That means, they also don't have normal feelings.

Punishment alone - cannot be the correct form of judgment for those who committed crimes.
Killing a human- is never a solution for someone who may have committed a terrible crime.

its just like hurting someone-who hurts you. By giving a death punishment to a person - who committed a terrible crime- the person giving away the judgment- became a killer.

Death- is never an appropriate punishment for someone who did a terrible crime.

No one ever have a valid reason to kill another Human- its inhumanity.

There are several criminals who had gone through behavioral changes while imprisoned and came out to lead a quality life afterwards.
Everyone should have given an opportunity to correct their mistakes and evil doings. You can lookout into today's world , where several countries have completely abolished the death sentence from their legal system.

my reply to Florence oledimma :-

"Perhaps if he was left alive, he would have gone into a lot of things unspeakable such as killing, kidnapping, robbery and so on besides,the death penalty saves thousands of tax money that would be spent to keep criminals in prison for life " - by stating this comment - you also think alike the police superintendent in the essay, when he thinks about his time, rather than the human life.

I agree with your opinion - "death penalty saves thousands of tax money that would be spent to keep criminals in prison for life". But you have think for a moment - if you are provided with that thousands of tax money - can you able to bring him back to life - keep in mind - that most expensive think in the world is not money- but a Human Life.
The most important think that makes life going day to day, keeps living things alive in the Earth - is not money- But love and care- that you show to the fellow human beings.
Violence is not going to be a solution for violence.

My opinion about salena's comment :-
pls tale a look at my reply to tabinda.

please don't make a mistake of judging a person by his outlook.

also he didn't begged or cried for his life - may be he was convinced about the judgment or he was roud of his death for a noble cause/ reason.

"They had been brought out of his cell to gallows in that walk way he stepped slightly aside to avoid a

puddle on the path. This is big mystery that one person knows he is dying but he is not agree to step puddle".

there is no real mystery in that action - its just a normal human behavior - the author used to insist that he is just another human being with normal feelings. He might not worried about his impending death , because of varied reasons- he might thought that the death penalty was a correct punishment for his crimes/ or else he was proud for the reason , he is going to be hanged.It doesn't means that he had to step into the puddle, even after noticing it.

Reply to venkatesh---------------I strongly believe that ,for this man to be hanged in such a way, there must be a serious crime which he has committed. So there is a 50% chance that if he was left alive, he might go back to those crimes.Moreover nobody knows who would have been his victim and even how many souls he would have taken. However there is also 50% chance that he would change but how are you going to be convince that he would change.Did you see the campus rampage in virginia where a student killed almost 12 people both teachers and students. what of saudan husen. When i saw the execution of saudan husen on the television ,i was crying like a baby but my husband wanted to change my mode. Do you know what he did? he called my attention to everything this man did.I not only stoped crying but i also cursed him.I strongly believe that it is better to kill a criminal than a criminal taking the life of many people who are responsible to the society.The bible says "thau shall not kill" however that does not mean that you will not eliminate dangerous people that wants to kill you before your time. You have not been involved does not mean that it is not happening.

Reply to Florence:

There are many people who agree with your idea, and that's why the humans are always involved in a big dark courtin that sometimes blind our eyes and mind. If one kills another becomes in a murderer. If "inocent" people kills a murder as a punishment, and then why are they considered heroes of justice? Which is the difference? I think murderers have to serve their sentence to prevent more murders as you said, but in my opnion the problem are the laws. For instance, in my country the murderers are in the jail for a few years after they have killed someone, and in addition if they have a good behavior the sentence is lower. Law is the responsible of which murderers are on the streets. Low has to change and don't allow that murderers leave from the jail never again.

Hi Florence I respect your point of view. But don’t you think that innocent people have been killed or hanged in the past? Anyway, in our lecture nothing shows that the prisoner was a murderer or not and him been hanged does not make him a criminal. I think the point here is the way human can be less human than animals.
In fact, you cried after Hussen had been killed, why? Only because you are human; that is what makes us different from animals. But see the way this prisoner had been killed as quickly as possible without any feelings from humans except the dog. Also Florence, you state the Bible “thau shall not kill” so, nobody has the right to kill no matter what.

Hi everyone..Uh this is the most hardest essay to read and understand though i felt that the executed guy was an anti social worker who was quite impressive in physically and mentally too.

He knew that he was walking towards his death but he didn't cry or beg his life instead of it he just called his god when the rope was in his neck.The most interesting part

is for me the dog's behavior. As we all know that animals gets the sign of danger before anyone so, I guess the dog was barking just to warn the prisoner not step ahead as it will lead him for his death.

In response to Venkatesh,

I strictly do not agree with your approach to other people comments, you should discuss this topic with an open mind since that's what the author wants us to do, And respect other people opinion instead of aggressive responses.

Physical description /presentation of any human being regardless of their color, religion or ethnicity can give us clues to their habits, personality and lifestyle. This is common knowledge you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to look at someone and have some sort of “IDEA" that what kind of background a person's come from e.g. a bank executive is well dressed verses a car mechanic and their physical appearance/presentation is different....continued

This author didn’t specify why this person was in the prison on the first place and what he was being hanged for? So, my comment was only based on the information provided by the author and I didn’t assume anything like you who seriously thinks or believes that this person was a freedom fighter or great warrior since this is what you are trying to convince to everyone.
So, what I m trying to say is our lifestyle leaves a mark on our body which gives us clues about our lifestyle. Since we don’t have much information about this person's background, he could’ve been a drug lord, gangster or a cold blooded killer . My opinion about him was based on the warder’s behavior around him unlike your opinion which is based on what you want to believe.
Venkatesh, your comments are too opinionated. You are biased in your comments and are focused on making this guy a freedom fighter, warrior or a person who is being hanged for a noble cause.
He is in a prison we don’t know why. He could be a innocent or could be a criminal. Of course everyone knows human beings have feelings. So, if this person is a cold blooded killer so what about the feelings of those people that he killed?

hey Tabinda calm down I dont see any wrong thing in Venkatesh contribution. he just has his own opinion like you and I do. And all of us have the right to reply to others and try to "sell" our opinion with strong arguments. but by doing so I dont think that gonna be source of personal attacks. I respect your opinion but I'm not in agreement. A PERSON PHYSICAL APEARANCE CANNOT ALWAYS GIVES YOU A CLUE OF HIS HABIT OR HIS PERSONALYTY. YOU CAN NOT CLASSIFY SOMEBODY BECAUSE OF HIS SKIN COLOR, HIS RELIGION OR ETHNICITY. in the past some people have think the way you are saying and we know what this caused to the entire humanity.....
To come back to our lecture, no where in the text you can tell that this prisoner was a drug seller, a ganster, a cold blooded killer or like Venkatesh "a freedom fighter or a great warrior". But we all have the right to choose one side and give some strong argument to try to convince the audiance. For me it doesnt matter if this guy was a criminal or a great warrior but what matter is the way humans were less human than that dog.

It seemed I missed a party here. Replying to everybody, I am not going to disagree with anyone, I just wanna add my own opinion. After reading the story, the feeling has remained in my mind is the close-up of a capital punishment, specifically a hanging. Handcuffing, lashing, hooding and hanging. It sounds no human feeling, but it doesn't. All of them , who we have judged as cruel people, do not only have to make sure the prisoners are dead but also have to observe them until they..truly died. That in not a great job. I think they feel exactly the way we feel, the difference is they just pretend they don't. The proof is in the story, after the hanging, they tried to talk to each other and pretend that nothing was too dreadful happened.

Hello, 5!

First of all, let me say how impressed I am with the quality and passion of your remarks. One thing is certain; there is no lack of humanity in this class!

I am also very gratified to see how you have taken possession of this forum. You appear to require no interference from me at all to conduct yourselves responsibly.

Orwell has deliberately placed us in a position of ignorance regarding the character and history of his prisoner. It would not surprise him at all that we try to judge the innocence or guilt of the accused on whatever evidence we have.

The folly of human justice systems is that we act as if our judgment justifies the harshest punishments. We know how often courts are wrong. Orwell may have wanted us to confront the execution "in close-up," as ND suggests, without regard to his guilt or innocence, because neither matters.

That said, all your contributions are entirely appropriate. We can't read such a story without following the clues and worrying about what the prisoner might have done, or might do if he were released.

And this conversation we're having might justify Orwell's presence at the event, which he did nothing to stop as Rokya reminds us.

Of all the impressive and thoughtful comments in the page above, my favorite is "I respect your point of view." (But it didn't make me laugh as much as "Hey, Tabinda, calm down.")

Have strong views. Express strong views. Keep a sense of humor. Nobody is right, certainly not me. :)

Hi prof ----------i came to class today with my homework but i didn't remember to submit it. please can i bring it on wednesday? THANKS

ND, sincerely i agree with your point, this people has a human feeling but what i understand is that; they don't have any option than to do their job. remember they have to obey the rules governing their job or else they will lose their job. As for the prisoner, the writer did not tell use what brings about the punishment by hanging, he might be a gangstar, cold blooded killer, drug seller or a freedom fighter or a great warrior according to Venkatesh but whatever be the case we are meant to have feelings as a human being.

I think some of you have mistaken my opinion. I am not talking about this person character which of course no one can tell just by looking at someone. What I wrote in my comment was that " Physical description /presentation of any

human being" REGARDLESS" of their color, religion or ethnicity can give us clues to their habits, personality and lifestyle".
For example : well built people take care of themselves, malnourished or sick people are struggling with poor health or lack of food. I quote from the article " It is curious ,but still that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy , conscious man. When i saw the prisoner step aside to avoid the puddle." In this line author was trying to tell us that this prisoner was a healthy man who took care of himself and even in his last moments of his life didnt want himself to get dirty by stepping into the puddle.
I am not talking about judging anyone just by looking at them at all. I hope this clears any misunderstanding.

TABINDA: That's a thoughtful clarification. I hope nobody thought you were being prejudiced, but if they did, your explanation should clarify your point of view. I think it's actually very astute to note that our behavior "leaves a mark on our bodies" about our character. George Orwell said somewhere else that "At 50, we have the face we deserve." You and he are thinking alike, I'd say!

FLORENCE: Yes, you may bring your homework Wednesday. This last time, because of the snow day, I will accept homework late, from you or anyone else who forget to bring it today. Next week, though, homework must be on time or it won't count. OK?

Hello everyone here. I see my classmates have strong ideas about this essay. Orwell want to impress to us the image about the prison on the way from cell to gallows. While i was reading this essay, i cannot believed that there was a way treatment to human like that with rifle, bayonet and even handcuff. It is do dreadful there when Orwell describes that human likes animal .Those things show us that the power of the governing in this social.

hello everyone this is a different kind of story it is hard to read. i was thinking about the mental condition of the prisnor before his execution. he knew that every step he is taking is taking him one step closer to his death. the prisnor was not afraid of death and he did not beg to anyone for his life but kiling someone like that before his natural death is inhuman.

Like Julian said, that was their job. Furthermore, what the author wants to say, following my own perception, is no one has the right "of cutting a life short when it is in full tide". The paragraph 10 contains the whole humane proofs which we can rely on to confirm that the author and other witnesses are truly "human". The point is, they cant face with the deaths like we can because they have had to witness them as long as they have had their jobs. In stead of crying or showing upsetting, they have pretended be rough for not showing the weakness of their humane traits which they should not, they can not show out. After the hanging, they joked and talked to each other just to hide their true uncomfortable felling which is a "uneasiness " according to the author's words. Therefore, i think they were more humane than we thought.

the author has to be witness cause of his job. He want to mention the image of the prisoner when he was hanging to the gallows. ND , your right because the author impress The prisoner's action while the superintendent asked him " wasn't he ready?" the answer is " yes, sir, yes, sir" . The sounds very strong like he wanted readily to die. It means the life in this social is not important and necessary to the people there. And the execution showed up to very one that is implied idea . Everyone has to be obey ... or will be treat like that .

It seems that I'm late with my comment.I thought the deadline was tuesday midnight. I also had lot of stuff to do during the past week, that's why. But I'm still gonna make my comment even though it's late. While reading the essay, I felt very frustrated. The author didn't specify what was the reason of the punishment of the man. Anyway, facing death is not an easy thing. In order to give lessons for other people, malefactors has to be punished. In that way, everybody will behave in good way. If everybody knows for sure that if you take out an innocent life, yours also is gonna be take out, nobody will think about killing. I'm not against the superintendent because in a society, somebody has to make justice. About the essay, anybody who read it thoroughly will have some kind of feeling of pitty. The authour wrote it in a way that reached his audience very deeply.

I'm sorry, Mohamed. I closed the discussion too early. (I don't know why I've been thinking it was Wednesday since about 3AM)

Of course I accept your comment. I'm glad you weren't deterred (excellent vocabulary word!) by my hasty closure. See you tomorrow (tomorrow's Wednesday, right?).

Professor Hodges, I thought the deadline this discussion was tonight at 11:59…please make my comment valid because I did submit this comment before Feb 16, 11:59PM.

This story was really tough to understand, and to read it, it was a challenge to me. I finally defeat my challenge after reading it three times. Every time I read the story, a ligh always went on in my mind, “him not being afraid of losing what he had.” Anyone gets terrified when it comes to leave this conformable world around us. He just kept chant the name, “ram ram ram”.

This thought took me to another broad idea about him being really religious. In hindu scriptures the following words are stated “If one remembers god’s name at the end of his life, god will take him/her out of the cycle of 8.3 billion births and obtain his soul to a haven(“Akshardham”)”. Him not banging for his life informs me about him not being as interesting in this world as we are…He was happy to enter in heaven…

This story might have been confusing but it made sense at the end.

Hello professor Hodges, i found this eassy really difficult. i had to read two times to understand the authour perpose.

It was hard to understand but finally i came up with something. first it was not making sence but after i read this sentence ' it was like men handling a fish which is still alive and may jump back into the water.' i think this sentence is creating some mood of story. Orwell point out that man's bowels were digesting food, his skin, hair, nail were all growing. By emphasizing how alive the man was, the author discribed how horror that in few moment he will be dead.

i found stray dog licks insident was inresting because its points out huminity of prisoner and emphsize the life he is losing. and one thing which was he was kept taking name 'ram ram' as neel said it seems like he was bing religious. yes, we took this god name end of the life, because we can pray for new life or to save life at end.

Hi Proffessor Hodges, I'm so sorry for the delay of my own comment. We had a loss in my family, my grandma died, so things hasn't be easy.

Well, this was a nice story, but i really felt so bad while reading this. To what i understood from this story, the author and his colleagues had a hard time, executing the prisoner. This is so sad, to see a human like you go down like that. I would say the author has a strong mind, to even witness the procedures.
From what i get from this story, the suprintendent was full of pity, sorrow and anguish. I think if he had his way he wouldn't have done it, but the "Law is the law''.
Any death by hanging is one of the most painful death ever. it is the death of ''had i known", it also the death of "God where are you", according to the author, the prisoner was shouting "ram ram". I percieve the meaning of that cry"ram ram" would be a cry for help. I can't even imagine the pain and agony that i would feel, if i was there. I also felt that the dog wasn't happy over that task, that maybe the reason why the dog was bounidng at the author and his colleagues.
why won't they breath ''the breathe of relief" after the execution had taken place? although it wasn't an easy task, they had to do it, as people say "the law is the law"

I don't know why, but this question has seemed to possessed me : Why the prisoner stepped aside to avoid the puddle ? He was going to die just next couple minutes..why he cared about that puddle ? Did he still desire to live..? And why these witnesses "stood aghast" when the dog tried to click the prisoner's face ? That is just because that dog might wake up an desire to be lived in the prisoner ? of coursetThe appearance of the dog that day was not contrived situation.

Hi prof -------------I think we are free to pick our compare and contrast topic from the two chapters you gave us ?

Yes, Florence, that's right. Only Mohamed seemed interested, but if you'd rather use "A Hanging" as the basis for your comparison or contrast, you certainly can.

Be VERY CAREFUL not to just write an essay about the death penalty, though. Be sure your essay uses substantial material from "A Hanging" and bases it arguments on information found in Orwell's essay.

Good luck! Send me a preliminary draft early if you like!

i agree rokya about the best character in this story is the dog. He understood and felt pity for a hanging man. he ttied to defend and stop orther people guide him to the gallows and hang him up. Moreover, Ovelllwel in this story had expressed very emotional characteristcs. his words to describe and retell the story are very strong, for he is the person who witnessed the whole event. it start from the cell to the gallows