It seems there is a rush to hang Joan Tree as she is hustled over to the noose hanging before her.
A group of Brampton citizens, supervised by an IMF official, position her on the trapdoor. The men’s hands are not shy about groping Joan’s naked flesh. She hardly noticed the noose sway away from her breast as she is pawed by the strangers’ hands to the cheers of the crowd surrounding the gallows. But the men’s rush was just to prepare Joan for what leads up to her execution.
The man who escorted her up the gallows’ steps grabs the swaying noose. He slides the knot, opening the loop to make it easier to slip the rope over her head.
As he holds the noose in front of Joan she says “You don’t have to do that.”
“You have been sentenced to be hanged” he says calmly. “I don’t think we can do that without a rope around your neck.”
He pulls the noose, tightening around Joan’s neck. She complains “It scratches me and it is too tight.”
He wiggles the loop around her neck and says “It’s not as tight as it will be when you are hanging from it.”
With the noose set around Joan’s neck, the man steps back and looks Joan over. Quite proudly he says “You look ready to be hanged.”
Joan scowls and says “Quit fucking with me and get this over with!”
“Joan, this is not a lynching. There are protocols to follow before we hang you to death” the man says. Joan looks at the bulge in his trousers. He didn’t have to say he couldn’t wait to see her legs kicking and her breasts swaying as she hanged by her neck.
4
Indeed there were protocols to follow. Archbishop Wragg stood before Joan and softly jibbered something in Latin. Joan assumed it was some final blessing for her. It was a good thing she did not understand a word he said as he was wishing she would put on a spectacular show as she was strangled as she was hanged by her neck.
Behind Joan, Sister Angel wondered is she would look as good as Joan would is she was hanged. Also behind Joan Spike Sharp looked at one of his cameras on a boom lift across the prison’s courtyard. He needlessly worried that its operator had focused for the long shot.
Though Joan had been led through a mob of media when she was being brought to the gallows, the
Crux Chronicle had sole rights to record her execution. If some other media outlet wanted to show Joan’s hanging, they would have to pay Spike a large sum of money for his exclusive footage.
There was more to the extravaganza. Miss Goodheart from the Eastwick Department of Criminal Corrections (and Termination) stepped onto the platform and, for the crowds’ benefit, read the charges Joan had been found guilty of committing. In a most severe voice she closed saying “…and Joan Tree has been sentenced to be hanged by her neck until she is dead. Joan Tree’s execution will commence at six o’clock this evening which for the sake of record keeping will be her registered time of death, no matter how long it takes her to die.”
Another huge cheer rises from the crowd. Miss Goodheart’s statement was code it may take Joan some time to die after she was hanged by neck. Joan squeezed her legs together. In the crowd, imaginary bets were made on how long she could keep from pissing. Few people even consider Joan is having her last orgasm.
It was only a little more than a month when Joan was arrested at Brampton International Airport. She was tried and sent to the Brampton Women’s Institute of Incarceration and Termination sentenced to be put to death in the facility.
Now she stands naked on the gallows with her hands cuffed behind her back and a noose around her neck ready to choke her to death when the trapdoor opens. Her brother Tree steps before her with a cold drink in his hands. He is framed by the prison’s administration building across the courtyard. In a calm voice he says “You will look good when you are hanged.”
Joan hisses, almost begging Tree, “Tree, get me out of this!”
“Can’t do that. I didn’t arrest you or sentence you to be hanged here” Tree explains.
“You wouldn’t condemn me to be hanged here in front of all these people” Joan angrily says.
“No, I’d have taken you back to Arkansas and hanged you from a pine tree in front of your friends and close associates” Tree agrees.
“You’re no fucking help” Joan snarls in anger.
It is a few minutes before six o’clock. Below Joan the crowd anticipates her hanging to death. In the front row, a group of special guests look up at the naked woman standing helplessly with the noose around her neck. Eul grabs Messa and says “I can’t believe they are going to hang her. It is such a brutal way to kill someone.”
“I know” Messaline says. “I offered them a premium French noose, but they refused and said she should die hanging from one made of Bramptonian hemp.”
“It will still kill her, won’t it” Eul asks.
“Yes, but it will certainly chafe her neck” Messa says.
Barbara Moore says “I’ll believe they are going to hang the bitch when the trapdoor opens.”
In the last minute before Joan is hanged the crowd goes silent as the prison’s bell tolls out the top of the hour. Joan will be hanged when the bell rings its sixth time. Joan looks down at the crowd looking up at her.
“She thinks “Open the damn trap before I piss up here!”