And this is the very point: my life-sentence gave me my status under this law which had not yet been written on the books.

And it is because of my status of lifetimer that I am to be hanged for battery committed on the guard Thurston.

It is clearly _ex post facto_, and, therefore, unconstitutional.
But what bearing has the Constitution on constitutional lawyers when they want to put the notorious Professor Darrell Standing out of the way?
Nor do I even establish the precedent with my execution.

A year ago, as everybody who reads the newspapers knows, they hanged Jake Oppenheimer, right here in Folsom, for a precisely similar offence.

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