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2nd: If a reprive is not given before July 1, on that day we would be carrie, by law, to the death-house of the State Prison in Charlestown, Mass. The death house is windowless, that means, airless and lightless, a veritable hell in the hottest days of Summer. In it we would suffer an agony, and we would have to stay very long if another reprive would be given after that we had been took there -- safe if transported to Cherry Hill Wing. Whereas, if a reprive is granted before July 1, we would be kept in this Dedham Jail until the Governor decision and not carried to the death house until ten days before the first day of the week in which we will be executed, if Fuller so decides. Here we have at least, light and air, a slice of land and of sky to contemplate, some visits, and a dayly bliss of a great hour of Sun-light and free winds, in the yard [?] so that we would not begin to agonize until they will kill us. 3rd. Mr. Thompson has a case for July -- and asked if he can take it -- that is, if Gov. Fuller give us a respite. Now, from what the defince told me, it seems