Framed

C.4 - Death Row Inmate

03/21/2021 - ??:?? PM

All I can see around me as that I am traveling through the city in the dark, and soon after, just a few minutes after looking out by the window, it began to rain as I see raindrops falling into the windscreen and onto the windows. I don't know what to do because I have been handcuffed, with strong shackles and the chains... looked like solid titanium steel to me. What I can remember last time since several minutes ago... I was at home and the last time after I turned off the news and switched a channel to something else when I hear a lot of police sirens blaring outside. At first thought, they are expected to pass by my house since Dylan's house was through the street where I was living at, just about 5 miles away but they didn't... Instead, they stopped and broke into my house and arrested me. I attempted to resist arrest but I ended up getting bashed by the buttstock of the M4 carbine, plus the stock with the recoil pad from the shotgun from one of the officers.

What pissed me off the most is Dylan and Riley, whom they were expelled since July 2020, were there at the time I was taken away. I began assaulting the two, and I slammed my handcuffed-hands onto Dylan's face before I lost my strength and stamina and I got exhausted before letting go from Dylan, from I'm holding from his shirt very hard, and how I headbutted him... Now I am here, in a police car... about to be put into death row because I was arrested for murder and the use of a weapon of mass destruction, and my criminal penalty was... You guessed it... Death.

The fact that is, New Hampshire is one of the overall 30 states in the United States who still practice capital punishment and has a death penalty statute. The rest were either outlawed, or still used for unique circumstances, or overall, officially outlawed or either abolished or didn't exist at all since the early history of the United States.

I grumbled and I knew to myself that Dylan and Riley could be responsible, but how dare they!? How could they do something like this so that they can get away with it? If I die right now, the mystery of the school bombing will remain unsolved forever... and Sakura will be sad about this, later on, she will be super pissed as well. Sakura and I had just formed our investigative duo and now I am arrested on the spot in less than 12 hours...

There are so many things that clearly makes no sense at all with the main thing is... How could I have been arrested in just one day after the bombing? That means how did they get crucial evidence so quickly? It doesn't add up. I'm not even there at the crime scene when it happened... I convinced the police officer who was driving and I said:

"I didn't do it... There must be a mistake!"

But the police officer spoke otherwise...

"You're not coming out from our hook anymore. We have found crucial evidence along with confirmation from these two eyewitnesses. It's all in the clear now. You will be sentenced to death and there is no need for the court trial because it is obvious. You are guilty!" he said menacingly.

"What the fuck?" That's my first thought.

No court trial and now I will be put into death row. I know New Hampshire still practice capital punishment but why now? Being framed... It's like in the movie called "The Fugitive" and its released in 1993. It stars Harrison Ford as its main character where he evades the police while catching the suspect who put him under the bus as he was framed for 1st-degree murder. Right now, it appears to be like in the movie, but this is 2021 and it was real... nothing more.

"Where are you taking me?!" I asked impatiently, but I struggled to remain calm.

"I'm taking you to the jail where there are death row inmates waiting for to be transported to the corrections facility" he explained boldly as he stared on the road, but flicked his eyes to the mirror, facing towards me.