Like many men, Rocky buffers his pain by shutting down his emotions.
The new procedures were used Wednesday for the first time on another man, Rocky Barton, and corrections officials there said the execution took place "without complications".
Man, that Rocky, he sure was a character.
He is gradually drawn into combat with a distinguished Jewish colleague, enacted by an exchange of increasingly impossible patients - Creosote Man, Sugar Pillar Woman, Rocky the Wannabe Rasta.
He was the daffy Colorado man (the "Rocky Mountain Rambo", we're reminded) who, with no training, supplies or common sense, took it upon himself to travel to Pakistan to capture Osama bin Laden.
"Until now, it was an intifada," an uprising, said Wajid Abed Rabbo, the Fatah leader in nearby Beit Jala, as he hiked with tens of thousands of men over rocky hills to the new graveyard where Mr. Obaiyat would be the first buried.
But a connection was made between men of rocky soil and poor farmers.
Yet as one based on the age-old motif that some women are so extraordinarily alluring as to drive men onto rocky shorelines, or otherwise incapacitate them, it would have felt increasingly stale.
And we see a bad-tempered prison meeting between Stringer and Avon that ends with a somewhat reluctant fist bump that suggests that the old partnership – "us, man" – is entering rocky waters.
Both men have had rocky relationships with Mr. Pataki over the years, and though there is little sign today of bitterness between the Pataki and Bruno camps, state Republicans do not yet seem inclined to put Mr. Pataki to use.
Badr had arranged for us to meet a local fisherman, Abdul Salim, who was sitting with his men on a rocky beach as we drifted to shore.
