21.   Brazzil leans back in his chair and smiles, thankful for having witnessed a condemned man at peace.

22.   A condemned man was executed by hanging, accomplished by fixing a noose about his neck, tossing the end over the yardarm, and hauling him skyward.

23.   A couple of condemned men were about to enter the ring.

24.   A spiritual adviser will watch too, if the condemned man wants one.

25.   But as a matter of principle, Sister Helen risks opprobrium to become the spiritual adviser to this condemned man.

26.   But lawyers for the condemned man file a series of appeals in a bid to delay his death by injection.

27.   Did the condemned man say anything at the end?

28.   Duralde looked like a condemned man as he broke the news to the near-capacity crowd.

29.   Eight condemned men have been freed from death row as a result of DNA testing.

30.   Final preparations for the execution in Huntsville were well under way and the condemned man was huddling with his spiritual advisers when the court issued its ruling in Austin.