Tab Hunter: Sam Dodd
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Judge Roy Bean : Do you have anything to say before we find you guilty?
Sam Dodd : I'm not guilty of nothing. There's no crime that I've done wrong.
Judge Roy Bean : Do you deny the killing?
Sam Dodd : I do not deny it. But there's no place in that book where it says nothing about killing a Chinese. And no one I know ever heard a law on greasers, niggers, or injuns.
Judge Roy Bean : All men stand equal before the law. And I will hang a man for killing anyone, including Chinks, greasers, or niggers! I'm very advanced in my views and outspoken.
Sam Dodd : There's no place in that book that...
Judge Roy Bean : Trust in my judgment of the book. Besides, you're gonna hang no matter what it says in there, 'cause I am the law, and the law is the handmaiden of justice. Get a rope.
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Sam Dodd : [about to be hung] Don't I get to say nuthin'?
Judge Roy Bean : By all means.
Sam Dodd : I want to say that I still believe this whole thing's a mistake and that I am no worse and probably better than the men that are about to end my days.
Judge Roy Bean : Well spoken, son.
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Sam Dodd : I want to say something. Don't I get to say nothing?
Judge Roy Bean : By all means.
Sam Dodd : I want to say that I still believe this whole thing is a mistake, and that I am no worse, and probably better than the men who are about to end my days.
Judge Roy Bean : Well spoken, son. That's enough.
Sam Dodd : [Narrating for himself] It was wrong to do this to me for the crimes mentioned, but I'd also killed white men and stole their horses. So I figured that that's what I was being hung for. My only concern was that that rope be tied properly.and the whole thing done right. It was.
