Story of a Condemned Criminal
Story of a Condemned Criminal
In a secluded investigatory chamber
a veteran detective is conducting an examination
on a suspect who insists he did not commit the crime.
The investigator must commit the suspect for trial
because he arrested him. The suspect insists on his innocence
because he did not commit the crime; nonetheless, the suspect
has no way to convince the veteran detective wearing a gun.
A prosecutor was no different from the detective,
he was even worse. Since he received a suspect,
he has to submit a plea of guilt and win the case.
An official counsel is no help to the suspect at all,
he did not bother to understand or to believe his innocence
but recommended he plead guilty to lessen the penalty,
to avoid the death sentence because he was faced with
a murder charge; worst case, he may be condemned to a cell.
The jurors were also irresponsible because they didn’t care
what would happen to the suspect. That’s why, though
their occupation and social status were different, for their
own reasons, they wanted relief from this wearisome jury duty
as quick as possible;
their verdict was guilty of murder,
the judge accepted, and sentenced to death by hanging.
As the days advanced, the execution day approached
and the night before his execution day, the guard asked
the convict, what he wants to eat for the dinner. He told the guard;
don’t bother, because his stomach is full, he was fed with sorrow
and tears.
On the execution day, a prison chaplain
came to the gallows and told him ardently;
repent and ask for God’s mercy.
Since he had no idea what did he wrong, and therefore was confused;
while he hesitantly looked for the words, the hangman dropped him
in the pit.
After the execution—because no one claims his body, the corpse was sent
to an autopsy room of a school where the students crowded
to study medicine as a money making means.
After his body was dissected before the students, carefully analyzed
piece by piece and finally, its form dissolved, the real murderer
of the case was caught by the police.
Then the full account of this case was reported on the papers daily,
spread through the air and became the talk of all, but the detective,
the public attorney, the prosecutor, the judge, the jurors, the prison
guard, the hang-man and the prison chaplain who took part in this
affair, not only turn their face away from the fact but live in their
everyday life without a pang of guilt.
The medical students, with more eased minds than
the people who were directly involved in the case,
were measuring their future to which specialty
field of medicine to study to make easy money.
Copyright © Su Ben | Year Posted 2014
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