Washington State Penitentiary,
The prison which was established in 1886 had capacity of holding up to 2200 prisoners and was often called Walla Walla State Penitentiary. The person located in Walla Walla is the second largest prison in Washington State after Coyote Ridge Corrections Center.
It is the site of Washington State's death row where executions are carried out by either lethal injection or by hanging. Even though the prison was surrounded by wheat fields, barely anybody took a closer look at them. Nobody would want to look at the wheat field when they are waiting inside their cells after hearing death sentences for fast track judiciary.
WSP is located in 1313 N 13th Avenue, which is known as The Walls among inmates. The man who was Célestine D'Amares had got to know it after spending nine months solitary inside a cell after being sentenced death for multiple murders, homicides and drug trafficking.
Raymond's strategy to act as elixir had backfired and O'Connell had to intake the venom as a result. Jesus died at Golgotha Hill. They say I had died there. But he couldn’t take a fact as coincidence that the particular avenue was called The Hill by the locals while inmates had no leisure time by calling it The Walls.
Again the infamous hill has called me.
In his time he got to know, notorious Terapon 'Lee' Adhahn – convicted of child rapes, once lived in the same cell before he was executed. The prison had some notable names studded on their Executed list like Colton Harris – Moore, Kenneth Bianchi, Kevil Coe, Jack Owen Spillman and some more.
O'Connell had heard the court these days avoided long delays for execution for the sake of mercy to inmates. He never could find what mercy was in executing very soon after being sentenced to die. Maybe it was for reduction of depression and suicidal chances among the prisoners. He could not believe how much the number of inmates had decreased since his arrival. Four convicted men had come there along with him at the same day. A week ago those two had gone for long walk within the penitentiary and had never returned since then.
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"Executions happen here within eleven months after death sentence. Washington State has passed this formulation. Long gone are the days when inmates stayed in their cells waiting to be hung for years and years." he had said a cleaner tell him through the small glass panel on his door while delivering bread with cops. It was January already and he guessed, what he had calculated, February could be his last month.
And prison had turned him to believe in the fact in basis of what he was witnessing.
More than counting the remaining days of his life he used to wonder what wish he had made to Payne which had made her resurface and call him after twenty long years.
In late January, O'Connell felt overwhelming anxiety and nausea grow within him. It was the most difficult day for him to pass as every minute seemed to be long like an hour.
"I survived Aitóuntes but the law is going to kill me. Aitóuntes has succeeded anyways. They don’t care who kills me. They just want me dead." O'Connell spoke to his pillow which he never had dared to tear like his bed – sheets.
With sudden chill running up to his head from spine, he felt like he wasn’t in prison walls anymore. For short time he feels like he again has been pulled out from the prison. But it felt like he was pulled out of the mortal universe to a divine land.
He sees stars in the night sky and feels fresh air fragrance hit his face. He discovers himself young again, muddy and realizes Payne had just finished healing his wounded head.
She sat beside him with his shoulder touching her arms and it seemed as if she wanted to stay like it too. She squints at her left to have a look at him, "You can ask for it Allan. I will not deny it."
He could not believe what she was saying. It was something he had wanted to hear ever since he had been pulled out. And she had said she was not going to deny.
"Do you want me to fulfill any wish for you?" she asks.
"I just escaped death by your help," the child says, "Please let me know when I will die and I need your help in finding out when I shall die. And help me die an easier death. The bad man had hurt me like hell."
He kept saying many things for a long time but among all of the wishes, he never mentioned life anywhere. But now O'Connell realized he had many wishes to choose from. He could have said Ice cream or cotton candy instead of having an easier death with her help.
She never had heard a child wish as bizarre as O'Connell's because she never had asked any toddler for anything. Then she smiles with wide lips, contracting cheeks and eventually enlarging parrot like nose by trying to guess the boy's fate.
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