Price of Rebellion Olive Yeung

Starring Olive Yeung and Scott Torvea

Olive took her teenaged rebellion too far, at 19 she committed a murder when she panicked during a robbery.  She’s been on death row ever since.

Sitting in her cell, Olive doesn’t know when she’ll be executed.  One day the guard will come with the outfit she was arrested in, then she’ll change and die.

She’s seen dozens maybe hundreds of condemned inmates walk past her cell. Some cried, some begged, some prayed, and some fought, all came back on a stretcher under a sheet. Olive has decided that when her time comes she will go out with her head held high. It’s the only thing she can control.  In prison, she is told when to eat when to sleep, she’ll be told when and how to die, how she faces death is the only choice she has left.

The guard opens the cell door and puts her clothes on the cot. He tells her to get changed and walks away. She knows what it means for her. After staring at her clothes for a moment, she pulls herself together. Determined to meet her end with her head held high. Olive changes from her prison uniform into the outfit.

When the guard returns she is cuffed and lead to her doom.  Pausing at the door to the death chamber Olive makes her final request. She wants to walk her final steps unbound. The guard agrees, if she walks to the chair without resisting. She agrees and does her best to look brave as she takes her place in the chair. The guard straps her in, wrists, biceps, torso, then ankles. Finally he binds one knees to the chair and fastens the leg electrode to that calf.

She refuses the blindfold, then the headpiece is fitted. Once secured the guard asks if she has any final words. Olive expresses regret to her victim’s family and says she hopes this gives them closure.

She apologizes to her parents, they had high hopes for her and she let them down. When finished Olive closes her eyes and leans back in the chair to wait for the end.

The guard signals the executioner (out of frame). Olive jerks shouts for an instant as the current hits. Then she’s paralyzed as the current hum but there’s a problem. Some sparks and smoke come out of one of the power units. There is a pop and sparks and Olive goes limp in the chair as the power cuts abruptly.

The guard announces her time of death.

The chair failed but the prison staff faked it. Normally when an execution fails they move the condemned to the autopsy room and open a major artery before they wake up. Most inmates are then cremated, but her family had other plans.

Olive is unconscious on a gurney covered with only a sheet. When she comes to the guard is waiting. She’s surprised to be alive, but the guard explains that the chair malfunctioned and they’re fixing it. He also explains how they’d normally deal with this. However, since her family isn’t having her cremated, they’ve donated her body to a medical school. She’s scheduled for gross anatomy class in 10 hours.

Olive smirks and says they always did want me to get into medicine.

When the guard asks her what the chair was like, Olive comments that it was like getting hit in the head with a sledge hammer then everything went white, finally she woke up on the morgue.  Not as bad as she feared.

The guard’s phone rings, the chair is fixed enough to do the job. Olive wraps the sheet around herself, and requests a blindfold, since the executioner’s switch is visible when seated in the chair. She is blindfolded and lead back to the chair.

Olive is guided back to the chair, she loses the sheet as she is seated, the guard quickly straps her in. The guard apologizes the chair will kill, but it’s not going to as fast as last time. Olive starts to panic.  Desperation turns into a scream as the power starts again.

She endures four cycles of current, the third knocks her out, forth finishes her.

END