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Stephy's Justice

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The church bells toll out the noon hour. Stephy felt her stomach churn as she climbed the steps leading to the gallows’ platform. The noose grows larger with every step she takes. She is naked and her arms are bound behind her back. A very interested crowd mills around the gallows. There is nowhere to run and no place to hide. ‘Fuck it, Steph, the court of the king has condemned you to this’ Stephy thinks. ‘Make them see you aren’t afraid of their damn noose.’ Without hesitation she walks up to the noose.

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Stephy is positioned so the noose hangs in front of her face. The drummer stops pounding his drum and announces “Citizens, before you stands Stephany Sneed who has been sentenced to death by being hanged by her neck from this gallows. By proper protocol you are expected to watch her execution with reverent silence.”

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The warden of the prison stepped up to Stephy and slipped the noose over her head and placed it around her neck.

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With a brave defiance Stephy screams “Fuck all of you! You have come to see me hanged so lets get it over with!”

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The judge that condemned her to be hanged to death steps forward and says “Not so fast, Miss Sneed! There is a message from the King himself that must be read before you are hanged. Lady Cromwell, please read the statement.”

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Lady Cromwell steps up on the platform and opens the scroll written and signed by the King of England. With her hands bound behind her back and the thick noose ensuring Stephy could not leave the platform, Lady Cromwell reads the message from the king.”

“Stephan Sneed, you have been convicted of numerous crimes of piracy at sea, the murder of sailors too many to count, and the heartless murder of Lady Barbara Moore. For these crimes you have been sentenced to death by hanging. His Majesty has provided a noose made of premium French rope the will slowly take you life as you are hanged by your neck until you are dead. May God find forgiveness for you soul the England cannot provide to you.”

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Stephy felt a trickle of her urine run down her thigh. The warden bellows “Executioner, perform you duties.”

The executioner begins to turn the levers and Stephy rises on het toes. It is the last time her feet will touch the ground while Stephy is alive!

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With a turn of the levers, Stephy is hoisted off the ground. Being hanged confused her as she could still labor to take a breath.

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Her feet struggled to find something to stand on, not finding the ground that was a foot out of reach.

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She tried to call out for help but the weight of her body pressed the rope into her throat and all that came from her mouth was garbled squawks and hacks for air.

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Stephy fought the rope that bound her hands behind her back as her legs searched futilely trying to find the ground.

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Her dance became more frantic as the noose closed around her throat.

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She was beginning to fear the worst of her hanging as time- and her life- slipped by. The rope tightened around her throat and the labor to breathe was now a struggle.

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The ringing in her ears drowned out the crowd’s cheers as the noose began to choke her.

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Though she was tired and running out of air, Stephy began to worry that she would lose control of her bladder and pee before the crowd. She thought that would be the only thing worse than being hanged naked before them. Her dance became more frantic.

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It was her last thought she had. Did Stephy know she spread her legs as her bladder released?

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She did not give an interview. Her execution was almost done.
 
Stephy made a few last twitches as the noose closed enough to close her throat.

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A few moments longer and she hanged limp from the noose.

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Captain Buckler announces to the crowd “Justice is done!”

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The French woman Messaline looks on satisfied her premium French noose caused Stephy to suffer a slow, agonizing struggle as the noose took its time to kill the woman.

They left Stephany hanged for another hour before cutting her naked body down.

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Even a criminal such as Stephy is given a casket before she was hauled off to Potter’s field to be buried in an unmarked grave…

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The end
 
Even a criminal such as Stephy is given a casket before she was hauled off to Potter’s field to be buried in an unmarked grave…
Coo, that's an unusual use of timber in a Tree story! :confused:

A fine yarn, though, Tree! :clapping:
 
... The French woman Messaline looks on satisfied her premium French noose caused Stephy to suffer a slow, agonizing struggle as the noose took its time to kill the woman ...
Yes but she continues to think that crucifixion is a better kind of execution : it's longer, the condemned is suffering during many hours before the death (she can meditate about the enormity of her crime) and the crowd is satisfied of this long show ...
 
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