Mr. Wongs „Happy Hours“
Mr. Wong was on the way to the "Gym Hall": this was the unofficial
designation of this room which had never been used for any sportive activities.
Mr. Wong 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 door. The
"Gym Hall". was a large windowless room. At its left side there were several
rows of chairs. Mr. Wong looked to the opposite side and what he saw there
filled him with satisfaction. Mr. Wong moved towards the wooden platform, which
took the whole width of the "Gym Hall". In a height of about 4 m there was a
solid steel beam: three white-dressed shapes were hanging on three ropes, which
were fastened to the beam above: According to the law it was not permitted to
enter this room in the next two hours but Mr. Wong was the highest authority in
the Changi prison and nobody would deny him the right to check if everything was
in order here after the completion of the
official part. Today three young girls had been executed by hanging: a
drugdealer, a murderer and a prostitute hung side by side in their white
shortleaved dresses which all the condemned women had to were during the
execution: with their white socks and sandals they looked almost like nurses or
school girls. Only the rough ropes with the thick coiled nooses formed a brutal
contrast to the almost idyllic picture. Mr. Wong entered the platform 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. Mr.Wong went to the girl
hanging next to him and moved and turned her lifeless body around. Her hands
were still bound with handcuffs on the back. Where the metal touched the wrists
bloody scratches could be seen. „She had struggled a lot“ he thought by himself.
In addition, at her tender neck bloody rope marks showed up, caused by the
tightening of the
noose. Now he looked more closely at the faces of the criminals. 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
wide open, the head was tilted sideways. The prostitute seemed to have died
nearly peacefully. The eyes were closed, the head was bent forward. Only the
drugdealer showed all signs of a slow strangulation: the half-opened mouth and
the out-pouring tongue. It seemed to be also the only one who during the
execution had lost control over her bladder. On her otherwise immaculate white
dress a dirty-yellow urine mark showed up and under her feet one could see a
small puddle. Mr. Wong took its digital camera and began taking photos of the
hanged girls. As a director of the women's prison he had of course been present
during the execution 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 hanged
girls was the most most exciting view they could imagine. It took mostly a good
quarter of an hour until the executed hung dead and still in the ropes. Most
spectators then took a few more photographs and
left the „Gym Hall“...
For Mr. Wong 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 girls“. According to the law they had to remain at least two hours at
the gallows and actually it was not permitted to enter the area before this time
was over. Mr. Wong however did not care about these regulations. He now began to
slowly turn back and forth one the hanged girls and enjoyed the sight of the
dead corpse
swaying around: then he pulled the girl to the side and let her bounce against
her neighbor. This one began to swing and touched her neighbor at the right and
within short time the three bodies performed a peculiar ballet, touching
themselves, swinging apart again apart, until after some minutes all three came
to rest again and hung quietly in the ropes. Then he pulled each girl forward
and let her swing back like a pendulum. He masturbated while watching the
swinging corpses...
One hour later Mr. Wong left the execution area and locked the door carefully.
Shortly he would return again with the prison physician, who had to certify the
death of the executed criminals. This was only a formality, as it was impossible
that someone still survived after hanging two hours at the gallows. The doctor
however took his task very seriously: he used a low step ladder, climbed up
unbuttoned slowly the two upper buttons of the dress of the hanged girls 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 clerk. The doctor even
took the trouble of closing again the two buttons before he climbed down his
ladder. Now the last formality was fulfilled. Two prison warden stepped
forwards, removed the handcuffs from the dead 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 chapel
where there relatives can take them to the funeral.
Mr. Wong was satisfied. Tomorrow morning again an execution was scheduled: two
sisters of 18 and 20 years who had brutally murdered her parents.
The End
Copyright by Haras (2002).