“I am not allowed to dispense cruel or unusual punishment,” the judge begins, rather inauspiciously. “The harshest punishment I am permitted to recommend is hanging by the neck until dead. The gallows it must be then. Beyond that, my only freedom is in setting a date for your hanging. I am of two minds on that. “My impulse is to order an immediate execution and be done with it. On the other hand, that might be an undeserved kindness. You would have no time to contemplate your impending doom. I choose instead this compromise: I sentence you to hang at sunrise on one of the seven days of next week. I further instruct your executioner to make certain that you have no way of knowing in advance on which day you will be hanged. Every night, you will go to sleep wondering if the gallows awaits the next morning, and when you do walk the last mile, it will come completely as a surprise.” The prisoner was taken aback to find his lawyer smiling at this incredibly cruel sentence. When they got out of the courtroom, the lawyer said, “They can’t hang you.”
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