The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver

Author:Elizabeth L. Silver [Silver, Elizabeth L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 038534743X
Google: ICclfeAJgSsC
Amazon: B00AP2VQYM
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 2013-06-11T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

TOM DAVIES WAS A SUAVE AUSTRALIAN FROM SYDNEY WHO had tried at least three other capital cases before landing mine.

The first was a felony murder. Twenty-three-year-old Dean Johnson robbed a liquor store down by Penn’s Landing, shooting the clerk between the eyes three times, just before grabbing two hundred dollars from the cash register and a pocket-sized bottle of whiskey and jumping into the Delaware River. When the cops arrived, they found a trio of bullets connecting the liquor store clerk’s unibrow from eye to eye so that he looked like a dead Cyclops instead of the former chief of medicine of Mumbai’s third-largest hospital. They found Dean dog-paddling from Philadelphia to Jersey on a gimp leg, leaving a fluorescent trail of blood adulterating the water on the way. He confessed that night and almost pled guilty to avoid a trial. At the last minute, he got a newly appointed lawyer who persuaded him to fight the charge, only to meet the needle eight short years to the date of his guilty verdict. His jury deliberated for only twenty minutes.

The second capital case for Mr. Tom Davies was a quadruple homicide plucked from a B-rated Hollywood movie editing floor. Three dead-end guys, construction workers, decided to free their boss of a few ounces of cocaine while he was out screwing his wife’s sister. No harm to a quality guy, they thought. So they waited until his car was missing from its spot at his office in North Philly, presumed him gone, and then proceeded to knock on the door. (I never said that they were bright, which is part of what made the case so easy for Tom Davies to win.) A random answered the door with his wife or girlfriend or hooker (quite frankly, I’m not sure who), and the three dead-end guys forced their way in on him, turning the apartment every which way to find the coke. Unfortunately, one of the guns accidently went off in the process, injuring said random’s girlfriend or wife or hooker. Shortly thereafter, their boss and his mistress and wife came home, and having no choice but to eliminate all witnesses, they shot each individual point-blank with a 35 mm handgun (but not before the wife cracked a bottle of Corona over the girlfriend’s head, leaving her as the only surviving witness of the bunch). The recoil flipped the gun out of one of their hands and was left like a glimmering pot of gold (along with the unconscious but very much alive boss’s girlfriend) when the police answered an anonymous call less than an hour later. The three guys were apprehended somewhere on I-76 trying to head to Altoona. Tom Davies tried dead-end guy #1, who is still waiting on a decent lawyer to help with his fifth appeal. Dead-end guy #2 got life. Dead-end guy #3 killed himself awaiting trial.

In my trial, Tom Davies spared no props or theatricality. An Aussie to the core, he spoke with that impeccable

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