Word: celles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world was the narrow cell in the New Iberia jail, where he waited for the talk to end. Finally it did. Willie had to go back to the chair. His lawyer came to tell him that he thought he could still get another stay, but Willie said: "No, leave it alone. Thank you, but leave it alone. I'm ready...
Before dawn one morning last week, Willie was ready, dressed in his newly pressed Sunday pants. He ate a last meal of catfish and potatoes. At noon the cell door opened. Said Father Charles Hannigan: "We've been practicing walking the way he wants to walk the last mile. Willie says he's going to walk it steady...
...extension of business is murder." War, he tells the court which condemns him, is merely a grandiose multiplication of the crime he is dying for. But wholesale murder is condoned by the state. "Numbers . . ." (of killed men), he tells the fat-mouthed journalist who interviews him in his death cell, "numbers sanctify." An earnest priest, his last offices rejected, murmurs solemnly, "May God have mercy on your soul." "Why not?" replies M. Verdoux. "After all, it belongs to Him"-and walks out to be guillotined, away from the camera, down that straight road where most Chaplin movies...
...Belvidere, N.J., Clayton Snover, content with his local jail cell after serving his time for drunkenness, refused to be put out even after a 30-day eviction notice...
Soon after midnight, guards at old Acre Prison, near Haifa, entered his cell and shook Dov Bela Gruner until he woke up. Sleepy-eyed, bewildered, he was taken to a large, dimly lit room. There stood a gallows. There also stood three other men of Palestine's Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organization. This was their first notice that death had come for them...