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Chapter 17 - In Our Time - Ernest Hemingway · In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

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  Chapter No. Seventeen. They hanged Sam Cartanella at six o'clock in the morning
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  in the corridor of the county jail. The corridor was high and narrow,
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  with tiers of cells on either side. All the cells were occupied. The
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  men had been brought in for the hanging. Five men sentenced to be hanged
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  were in the five top cells. Three of the men to be hanged were
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  Negroes. They were very frightened. One of the white men sat on his
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  cot with his head in his hands. The other lay flat on his cot
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  with a blanket wrapped around his head. They came out on to the gallows
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  through a door on the wall. There were six or seven them, including
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  two priests who were carrying Sam Cartanella. He had been like that since about
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  four o'clock in the morning. While they were strapping his legs together. Two
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  guards held him up and the two priests were whispering to him. Be a
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  man, my son, said one priest. When they came toward him with
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  the cap to go over his head, Sam Carternella lost control of his figter
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  muscle. The guards who had been holding him up dropped him. They were
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  both disgusted. How about a chair will, asked one of the guards.
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  Better get one, said a man in a derby hat. When they all
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  stepped back on the scaffolding back of the drop, which was very heavy,
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  built of oak and steel and swung on ball bearings. Sam Cardanella was left
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  sitting there, strapped tight, the younger of the two priests kneeling beside the
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  chair. The priest skipped back on to the scaffoldon just before the drop fell.
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  End of Chapter seventeen,