One of the most moving moments in the film is when he reads out the messages his father wrote to him and his mother from the death cell.
But they do have automatic weapons "and the power to book you, which could lead you to the death cell".
On hearing of Hall's transfer, one officer had "a tone of voice generally used when the parish priest comes slowly into the death cell", while another was aghast at the camp's softball team losing so skilled a left-fielder.
The Home Office papers confirm that Victor Mishcon, who is now Baron Mischon and was Princess Diana's solicitor, heard the death cell confession from Ellis, a nightclub hostess, on the morning before her execution at the age of 28.
He spent his last birthday - his 51st - in the death cell of Rawalpindi gaol, scarcely able to eat because of an untreated gum disease, and unable to keep down much of what he forced himself to swallow.
But we also understand them to have been "gathered in by death, cell by cell by cell," and even more viscerally consoling is an aspect of the arrangement of their bodies.
I used to ask my father in his death cell how he survived in prison, and he said that he'd pick a day from his life and go through the entire day, minute by minute.
On the afternoon before she was due to die, Scotland Yard failed to find Mr Cussen to corroborate her account and the Home Secretary instead relied on a prison officer's account of her death cell confession to refuse a reprieve.
Many of Taseer's Twitter followers were retweeting his old messages full of courage, humour and, above all, his humanity, his decision to stand with Pakistan's most powerless citizen, a poor non-Muslim woman languishing in a death cell.
A "huge death cell" occupies the city center, and, since "music was the only thing with any religion," it has been banned.
The handcuffed prisoner, a 40-year-old American woman, scholar, journalist, lecturer, teacher and translator named Mildred Fish Harnack, was led to a first-floor death cell.
