| 03 September 2010
It has been my most distressing duty in the past, to report on the macabre court proceedings preceding a death sentencing: The silence in the court room has reached such a fragile peak that a falling pin-head would sound like a massive explosion. The judge, who has just finished reading his judgment, is wearing a huge scowl on his face and the symbolic black cap on his skull:The judge adjusts the black cap and proceeds to announce the sentence in a solemn tone: “I sentence you to hang by the neck until you die. May God have mercy on your soul.” There are groans and gasps across the courtroom and then the wailing shatters the air…