The Executioner

By Scot McAtee

William Colts is no stranger to prisons. He has been a Corrections Officer for fifteen years. Tonight is his first night serving on Death Row at the newest prison in the country-- Desolation Hill. Tonight he will help put a man to death in the most state of the art "humane" method the state has yet devised. He will achieve something he has been waiting years to fix; he will settle a longstanding score. There are three rules on Desolation Hill's Death Row: On Desolation Hill, if a prisoner steps out of line, he doesn't go to the cooler. Dead men never get the chance to meet their makers. Nosy Corrections Officers who ask too many questions, don’t live to tell the tale. As Colts goes about the routine preparations for the night's execution, several questions come to mind. What is the door behind the chair for? What is this "humane" method his partner talks about, and just who is the Executioner?

Most importantly, will he be able to go the whole night without seeming too nosy? It seems that his life depends upon it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scot McAtee
• Release date: Dec 11, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301713370

Scot McAtee

Scot McAtee started out his professional life teaching High School English in Northern Indiana. After a year long stint in Inchon, Korea, teaching English to native Koreans, he returned to Indiana where he teaches High School classes in Business and Computer Sciences. He spends his free time creating movies, video games, digital music and writing other sci-fi and horror novels. His favorite authors are George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley and Clive Cussler. And although it may be hard for Westerners to see the likeness, his Korean students frequently called him Brad Pitt.

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The Executioner

by Scot McAtee

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Copyright 2012 Scot McAtee

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Desolation Hill was an award winning Green Prison but for every celebrated honor, it was no happy place. It was the newest SuperMax Prison and the home of the most humane Death Row in the country, or so the stories went. The newspapers touted it as not only the most discreet privacy-aware prisoner disposal system available, but the cheapest, too. Politicians lauded it as the greatest security system money could buy. Economists praised it for its energy efficiency. The Warden called it the greatest deterrent in the history of prisons. But the prisoners called it something else-they called it The Devil’s Mouth.

So, new guy, who’d you tick off to get this detail? Officer Marvin Dicks asked his new colleague.

William Colts, a fifteen year veteran himself, responded indignantly. Nobody. I asked for this job.

Are you stupid? Dicks growled back. Or just an idjit?

Neither.

Seems to me that only newbies and idjits looking to get their thrills ask to put other men to death. So which are you?

Neither.

Dicks grunted and crossed his arms. "What’d you