In 2039, the 43-year old Mr. Joshua Wong chi-fung was on the way to the `` Dance antechamber '' : this was the unofficial designation of this room which had never been used for any sportive activities. Joshua pressed the handle down and was satisfied that the door was still locked. He took a key out of his pocket and unlocked the heavy metal doorway. The `` Dance Hall '' was a expectant windowless room. At its forget side there were several rows of chairs. Book of Joshua looked to the opposite side and what he saw there filled him with satisfaction. Josue moved towards the wooden political program, which took the whole width of the `` dancing Charles Martin Hall ''. In a height of about 4 m there was a satisfying sword beam : three white-dressed shapes were hanging on three forget me drug, which were fastened to the shaft above : According to the law it was not permitted to accede this room in the succeeding two 60 minutes but Joshua was the highest bureau in the Beijing prison and nobody would deny him the right to tick off if everything was in order here after the completion of the official part.

Today three young girls had been executed by hanging : a drug bargainer, a murderer and a prostitute hung slope by side in their white shortstop sleeved apparel which all the condemned women had to were during the execution : with their lily-white sock and sandals they looked almost like nursemaid or shoal girls. Only the rough ropes with the thick coiled nooses formed a vicious demarcation to the almost idyllic picture. Joshua entered the political program and examined with obvious joy the three hanged girls.

All three hung nearly at the same height, their feet, pointing downward, were only a few centimeters from the ground. Joshua went to the girl hanging future to him and moved and turned her lifeless consistency around. Her hands were still bound with handcuffs on the back. Where the metal touched the wrist, bloody scratches could be seen."She had struggled a lot"he thought by himself. In improver, at her tender cervix bloody rope bull's eye showed up, caused by the tightening of the noose.

Now he looked more closely at the faces of the outlaw. He was always fascinated how differently the hanged looked after they had died. The murderer showed a pain-cramped face, a trace of bloody saliva ran from her mouth ( probable she had bitten herself in the tongue during her agony ), her eyes were broad open, the headway was tilted sideways. The prostitute seemed to take in died nearly peacefully. The eye were closed, the straits was bent forward. Only the drug monger showed all signaling of a slow throttling : the half-opened rima oris and the out-pouring tongue. It seemed to be also the only one who during the murder had lost control condition over her bladder. On her otherwise spotless white wearing apparel a dirty-yellow urine mark showed up and under her metrical foot one could see a pocket-sized puddle. Joshua took its digital tv camera and began taking photograph of the string up girls. As a theatre director of the women 's prison house he had of form been present during the murder and it was each time an exciting experience to watch while women were hanged with the"short Drop ”. Here was here no trapdoor through which the condemned fell. The criminals simply stood on a bench which was taken out under their feet. For most spectators the quivering and wiggling of the give ear girls was the most stimulate view they could imagine. It took mostly a salutary quarter of an minute until the do hung dead and still in the roofy. near spectators then took a few more photographs and left the"terpsichore antechamber"...

For Book of Joshua however it was the highlight of the day when the official execution was over and when the doors had been locked : Now he had time to look privately after"his fille ”. According to the law they had to stay on at least two 60 minutes at the gallows and actually it was not permitted to get in the sphere before this time was over. Joshua however did not care about these rule. He now began to slowly turn back and forth one the hanged girls and enjoyed the sight of the suddenly corpse swaying around : then he pulled the fille to the position and let her leap against her neighbor. This one began to swing and touched her neighbor at the right and within unretentive time the three trunk performed a funny ballet, touching themselves, swinging apart again apart, until after some moment all three came to pillow again and flow quietly in the ropes. Then he pulled each girl forward and let her swing back like a pendulum. He masturbated while watching the vacillation corpses ...

One hour later Joshua left the executing expanse and locked the door carefully. Shortly he would rejoin again with the prison physician, who had to endorse the death of the executed crook. This was only a formality, as it was impossible that soul still survived after hanging two time of day at the gallows. The doctor however took his task very seriously : he used a low step ravel, climbed up unbuttoned slowly the two speed release of the dress of the cling young woman and listened with the stethoscope for eventual heart beats."Exitus"- was then each time his laconic statement, which was carefully noted down by the prison shop assistant. The doc even took the hassle of closedown again the two buttons before he climbed down his ladder. Now the last formality was fulfilled. Two prison wardens stepped forwards, removed the handcuff from the numb girls and cut them off the ropes : The three bodies were laid on three gurneys and rolled out. They will be placed in the prison house chapel where their relatives can use up them to the funeral.

Josue was satisfied. Tomorrow morning time again an execution was scheduled : two baby of 18 and 20 years who had brutally murdered her parents.

The End