Mile 2 Prison 2 Prison on charges of sedition after writing a letter critical of the government. On 23 August 2012, nine inmates were ordered to be executed by lethal injection on the orders of Yahya Jammeh, including one inmate whose death sentence had recently been commuted to life. These were the first executions to be carried out in Gambia since 1981. Mile 2 Prison Mile 2 Prison is a notorious penal institution in the West African country of The Gambia that is located on the highway between Serrekunda and the capital city of Banjul, across the road from a military barracks. Officially
The Capital of the Ruins in 1986 by Eoin O'Brien in "The Beckett Country", and later that same year in "As No Other Dare Fail: For Samuel Beckett on His 80th Birthday by His Friends and Admirers". It is also collected in Beckett's "Complete Short Prose 1929–1989", published in 1995. The Capital of the Ruins "The Capital of the Ruins" is a short piece of reportage by Samuel Beckett written in 1946. Originally written for broadcast by Irish radio, it deals with the Irish hospital in St. Lô. The title of the piece derives from a booklet of photographs of the bombed-out city entitled "St.