1. The pinioned hands of the condemned man went suddenly white as the noose and the drop snapped his spinal column. 2. The prison rules allow no communication with a condemned man. 3. The state allows no communication with a condemned man. 4. Then, as the condemned man sang hymns with a chaplain, he bowed his head and wept. 5. ...prison officers who had sat with the condemned man during his last days. 6. The condemned man was led to the scaffold. 7. All through the meal he picked at his food, while Peter ate heartily with a quip about being a condemned man. 8. Pool simply coasted along, and Darlington, for all of their honest endeavour, played with the confidence of condemned men. 9. The condemned man slumped to the floor, crouching like a beaten dog. |