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I remember two Willie Binghams

One, pasty-faced with fear after the sentence was read..

and the other

after the series of amputations

The first is now blurred by the painfully sharp focus of the second.

I was the very first surgical supervisor

appointed under the State's revised stance on Capital Crime.

My job..

to see that medical protocol was followed.

That inmates would not suffer any more than the usual

post-surgical discomforts.

You're gonna remove my hand!?

That's correct.

NO WAY!

Well, you are a murderer Mr Bingham.

Oi! Warden!

Oi!!

No Sir. THAT IS NOT FAIR!!

I killed that girl, but that weren't me alright.

It was the booze.

and the drugs.

They cooked up somethin' awful.

They're sayin' I mutilated her..I never.

The first surgery is largely symbolic.

Symbolic? Correct.

Well, piece of cake then. Nothing to worry about huh?

Well, I'm here to make sure you suffer no more pain than is necessary.

Why don't they just do what they used to do huh?

Just..EXECUTE ME!!

Once and for all.

You're to be made a national example.

Your chance for recompense.

It's expected that the reduction should cease by the second or third surgery.

Third??

Come on, come on.

Cover please.

Surviving family members determine how far the surgeries will go.

Proceed.

This is what my criminal ways got me.

You best all mind yourselves kids. Huh!

'Cause you don't want this.

No.

YOU DON'T EVER WANT THIS!!

Okay mark it.

In March, they removed Mr Bingham's right arm and his left leg.

Proceed.

You may proceed.

Mr Bingham.

Don't hurt none.

Where's me supervisor?

As Mr Bingham's procedure advanced..

He was exhibited to the more difficult cases in the under-funded state-run high schools.

His hands..

Behave yourselves now.

Unless you wanna look like me.

Although Mr Bingham was recovering well physically..

..his outlook grew progressively darker as the third surgery approached.

The boys upstairs are very pleased with your progress Willie.

I don't expect the family will take it any further.

Every job hits patches of rough road..

..there are times I strain to glimpse the bitumen below at all.

Tensions continue to rise around the nation..

..fresh protests erupted today over what many are now labelling

a cruel and barbaric form of punishment.

The man at the centre of it all..

..is 38 year-old inmate William Bingham..

..convicted of the rape and murder of a young schoolgirl early..

Looks good.

You may commence.

Mr Bingham gave up a kidney and a lung.

Organs from inmates provide a small,

but steady revenue stream for our now privatised penal system.

Nurse!

Yes..Mr Bingham?

They cuttin' off my right leg, or is that me left?

It's your..

..left leg Mr Bingham.

Left leg. Left leg.

Five months later the fifth surgery was ordered.

Please don't do this.

Now, now Mr Bingham.

It will all be over soon.

Mr Bingham....would lose his namesake.

Willie.

Willie.

Are you okay?

You in pain Willie?

Willie?

I never saw Mr Bingham cry after that day.

Nor has he spoken to me since.

He went into his final surgery without any observable emotion.

They removed his ears..

..his nose..

..and the tip of his tongue.

A laser depilated what remained of his body.

We've made it through to the end now Willie.

That was five years ago.

Mr Bingham's room..

..is the last on the southern end..

..of the top floor.

The light is always on..

..and I know he's there..

..eyes to the ceiling..

..dead silent.

Except the last week....of every month.

That's when Mr Bingham and I..

..travel to the high schools.