<<< Return to Spanish version You are in a small windowless room, lying on a pale turquoise gurney. On each side of the gurney there is a metal table against the wall, and in one of them there are scissors, a small red beaker and a gauze strip. Neatness of the room is strangely disturbing and doesn’t release comfort. There is also a clock just above the gurney ticking to announce something terrible. You can see everything because in front of you there is a mirror. And you can imagine that behind must be your execution witnesses, some of your family and possibly several families of your victims. Prison officials tie you to the gurney straps and clean your arms with alcohol before insert an intravenous cannula in each (the one main and the other for security, if the first fails). You can see yourself helpless in the mirror. You're a murderer but you are also afraid, something that is part of our deepest and most primitive animal nature, probably the sam