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(con. 1984) Dead Man Walking 33: ‘[B]ig yard,’ where inmates sleep in a sixty-man dormitory, eat in a cafeteria, and have access to a recreation room.at big yard (n.) under big, adj.
(con. 1984) Dead Man Walking 33: ‘[B]ig yard,’ where inmates sleep in a sixty-man dormitory, eat in a cafeteria, and have access to a recreation room. (con. 1984) Dead Man Walking 35: They have not yet moved him to the death house, where the electric chair is located about five miles deep inside the prison.at death house (n.) under death, n.
Dead Man Walking 138: ‘He’s a mad dog, that’s what he is,’ Vernon says, and he tells how Willie and Vaccaro, after killing Faith, had continued their reign of terror.at mad dog, n.
Dead Man Walking 39: ‘He didn’t sleep much. The guy was eaten up by what he did’.at eat up, v.
Dead Man Walking 46: The South has always been a proponent of strong law-and-order measures [...] and they were not about to let the feds in Washington tell them how they could or couldn’t punish their criminals.at Fed, n.
Dead Man Walking 177: ‘Some snitch,’ he says, ‘must have told [Warden] Blackburn I was plannin’ to hit the fence’.at go over the fence (v.) under fence, n.1
Dead Man Walking 34: If a guard suspects drugs he may do a ‘finger wave’ of the inmate’s rectum.at finger wave (n.) under finger, n.
Dead Man Walking 131: Many people [...] energetically signal their response to our cause: they put thumbs down; they flip us the middle finger; they shout ‘Fry the bastards’ .at flip, v.2
(con. 1984) Dead Man Walking 32: ‘You have to learn each ‘free man’ [guard],’ he says. You learn which ones you can tease and which ones you can’t’.at free man (n.) under free, adj.
Dead Man Walking 122: ‘There have been a few who have let this thing [the death penalty] get next to them. When this happens, I offer them an assignment in another part of the prison’.at get to, v.
(con. 1984) Dead Man Walking 184: [T]he quiet green holding cell just a few short steps away from ‘Gruesome Gerty,’ which is what the inmates call the electric chair.at Gruesome Gertie (n.) under gruesome, adj.
(con. 1984) Dead Man Walking 33: He’s on a lock-down tier [...] He shares a cell with one other person and he stays in this cell at all times except when he works in the fields.at lockdown (n.) under lock, v.1
(ref. to 1951) Dead Man Walking 24: In 1951 eight inmates, known as the ‘Heel-string Gang,’ inaugurated the first reform at Angola by slitting their Achilles tendons rather than go to the ‘long line’ in the fields, where they were systematically beaten or shot by guards.at long line (n.) under long, adj.
Dead Man Walking 50: [I]f a D.A. knows he’s up against a top-notch defense attorney, he’ll think twice about prosecuting for the ‘max’ and maybe losing.at max, n.
Dead Man Walking 119: ‘He takes pride in being tough. He even smart-mouthed the judge at his trial’.at smart mouth, v.
Dead Man Walking 31: I have a roaring headache when I emerge from the prison, and I take two Bufferins.at roaring, adj.
(con. 1984) Dead Man Walking 14: ‘[N]none of the guys on the Row can afford to hire their own attorney,’ he says, ‘so you can imagine the frantic telephone calls we get from death-row inmates’.at Row, the, n.
Dead Man Walking 104: ‘[W]e obviously wanted somebody [as executioner] who was screwed down pretty tight and very, very firm in his convictions, not just someone with a morbid interest’.at screwed down tight (adj.) under screw, v.
Dead Man Walking 121: [T] one responsibility which he takes ‘very, very seriously’ is that condemned inmates get [...] a chance to ‘get straight with God’ before they die.at get straight with (v.) under straight, adj.1
Dead Man Walking 177: [of an informer] ‘[A] dude who ain’t wrapped too tight, who’s always kissin’ ass with the authorities’.at not wrapped too tight (adj.) under tight, adj.
Dead Man Walking 162: ‘She’s just going to bust out cryin’ and won’t be able to say nothin’ ‘cause she’s gonna be so tore up’.at tore up, adj.
(con. 1984) Dead Man Walking 38: Eddie was upset. We had just gotten him out of jail. He had come unglued over a girl who was pregnant with his child.at come unglued (v.) under unglued, adj.
Dead Man Walking 32: Eddie keeps receiving disciplinary write-ups, which land him in the ‘hole,’ a stripped-down disciplinary cell .at write-up, n.
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