Two Words
A short piece inspired by the ending of the episode "Savages."
"I do."
When he first said those words at the wedding to his wife-to-be only a few years ago, they were heavy with hope, heavy with love. He meant it for life.
The last time he said those words, the last of the twelve jurors to do so, they weighed on him with sadness, weighed on him with hate. He had voted to end a man's life.