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Submitted to Contest #245
It was time to escort Martin "Insanity" Sanz, AKA "The Daybreak Killer" from the visitor's room back to his cell for his last meal before execution. He had been convicted of multiple murders, each occurring around the break of dawn, involving switchblades and baseball bats. He pled self-defense to each one. He worked as a car repossessor and owners did not appreciate losing their cars, and sometimes they would get nasty. So he would have to fight back any way he could. Sometimes, they would lose the fight, he would argue. But the jury didn't...
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