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Hmmm,Essay Question:

RC Priest, Father Shawn O'Malley recently became the Chaplain for a prison in Utah. Upon reviewing the inmate's files, he discovers a Mormon, Bill Muckemover, on Death Row soon to be executed by Firing Squad.

Father O'Malley, recognizing and firmly believing the sinner must confess his sins prior to the first death to avoid damnation, approaches Bill to offer confession and last rites. Shawn recognizes Bill from their early childhood education by the Catholic nuns back in Boston and how they both had once passed catechism, but now Bill is a staunch Mormon.

Bill is very remorseful, carefully considering every known sin and unknown sin over his worldly days and obliges the priest in confession, but then stipulates he must be executed by firing squad, because the blood of Christ was insufficient to cleanse his sin of murder. Instead, being faithful to God, Bill insists he must be shot, in order to meet God's demands for his entrance to heaven. Other than that, the good Father is unable to discern Bill from even his Bishops in his piety.

However, Shawn now watching the firing squad assemble, recognizes the shooters as all Masonic leaning, paganistic Mormons who practised the occult. Shawn, recognizes that if Bill is shot while in the act of a sin, his last rites and confession have not been sufficiently provided. Shawn reaches over and grabs the foreman's weapon and dispatches the firing squad before they realize what is happening.

In the haste of the situation, Bill grabs a rifle from the dead guard and holds Shawn at bay, insisting Shawn must shoot him for Bill to go to heaven. Furthermore, Bill being the only one left alive who witnessed the event insists he must kill Shawn otherwise nobody will believe what happened. Meanwhile, a wounded, not-dead-yet, guard gets off a fatal shot at Bill, who in turn discharges the rifle into Shawn resulting in both Shawn and Bill departing their bodies.

Question:

Which answer is their destination and justify the conclusion?

a) Bill goes to Hades, Shawn goes to Hades.
b) Bill goes to Hades, Shawn goes to heaven.
c) Bill goes to Heaven, Shawn goes to Hades.
d) Bill goes to Heaven, Shawn goes to Heaven.
e) Bill goes to the Great Salt lake, Shawn goes to Purgatory and neither know how to ski, but both have the big skilift ticket to the sky.

I plead the fifth...

To plead the Fifth is to invoke the Fifth Amendment's protection that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"--that is, to refuse to testify on the grounds that one's testimony might be taken (or mistaken ) as incriminating oneself. The expression is also used as a metaphor for refusal to comment on a suspicious or "incriminating" circumstance.