Chapters 13–14: Sam gets dressed in his new clothes and prepares himself for execution. It is the last day of his life. The Supreme Court has denied his last appeal, and the Governor has denied his plea for clemency. Sam decides to admit his crimes to Adam, but he tells him that he didn’t kill the Kramer boys. He says that he was wrong to be involved, but he insists that he didn’t mean for the boys to get hurt. Adam says goodbye to Sam, who is taken into the gas chamber. Adam is leaving the prison as Sam is struggling to breathe his last breaths inside the chamber. He cries for Sam and his terrible fate.