The Chamber Page #5

I see.

So, if I should somehow learn...

Adam, I take my power to decide

whether a fellow human

should live or die very seriously.

If I could somehow be convinced

your client felt the same way...

I'm sorry to rush. Nora,

help out Mr Hall in every way we can.

- It was lovely to meet you.

- Nice to meet you.

Let me guess.

You're not convinced he's sincere.

- Allow me a touch of healthy scepticism.

- Of course.

However, off the record and on the issue,

you're being given the opportunity

to provide the governor with cover.

- I love politics.

- If he stays the execution for no reason,

to the left he's a friend of the old guard,

and to the right he's soft on crime.

And as it was he who won the conviction,

he looks to the world like a flip-flop.

But if I come up with something,

he can follow his conscience.

Let's just say it expands his options.

So you've been assigned

my new best friend.

Something like that.

- I'll win this in the courts.

- Even better.

- It's not getting to the governor.

- Now you're talking.

If you need any help,

that's home, that's office.

Call me.

I found this in my motel room last night.

"Welcome to Dixie. Please try

and leave everything as you found it."

- Sounds like good manners to me.

- It was attached to a fake bomb.

What?

- What do you think I should do about it?

- I don't give a damn.

I'm thinking about how

that gas I'll be forced to sniff

makes your lungs explode

and come flying out your mouth.

What motions are you planning to file?

We're going to pursue cruel and unusual.

Three years at Michigan Law

and that's the best you got?

In 1984, Mississippi passed a law

changing executions

from gas chamber to lethal injection.

That law applies to folks sentenced

after nineteen hundred and eighty-four.

I was sent up here

in nineteen hundred and eighty.

- Now, what's your point?

- You're up on the law, aren't you?

I read all the decisions

of all the dead judges. Same as you.

I write some writs for guys on the row.

You got any stays yet?

Then keep your matchbook

law school advice to yourself.

By changing to lethal injection

the state admitted de facto

that the gas chamber is a cruel execution.

May I remind Counsel,

speaking as the gasee,

I'll be just as dead one way as the other.

Sooner or later, yeah,

but I'll take later as a win.

Well, I've been losing

better appeals than this for 16 years.

I feel like those white guys that always lose

to the n*gger Globetrotters.

Why didn't my dad

get infected with this crap?

We're having our Eddie talk,

is that it? Be careful.

You destroyed him, you must like that.

I destroyed nothing.

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