This is the record of the sentence Judge Roy Bean pronounced on a convicted rapist and murderer:
"JOSE MANUEL MIGUEL GONZALES, in a few short weeks
it will be spring. The snows of winter will flow away, the ice will
vanish, the air will become soft and balmy. The annual miracle
of the years will awaken and come to pass.
But you will not be there.
The rivulet will run its soaring course to the sea.
The timid desert flowers will put forth their tender shoots.
The glorious valleys in the imperial domain will blossom
as the rose.
Still you will not be there.
From every treetop, some wildwood songster
will carol his mating song. Butterflies will sport
in the sunshine. The gentle breezes will tease
tassels of the wild grasses and all nature will
be glad.
But you will not be there to enjoy it.
Because I command the sheriff of the county
to lead you away to a remote spot, swing you by
the neck from a knotting bough of some sturdy oak
and let you hang until dead.
And then Jose Manuel Miguel Gonzales, I further command
that such officers retire quickly from your dangling corpse,
that vultures may descend from the heavens upon your filthy body
until nothing is left but the bare, bleached bones of a cold-blooded,
blood-thirsty, throat-cutting, mudering Son-Of-A-Bitch!”<br>
Oh but to have more like this CARRIED OUT today!
