Jebidiah Nightlinger (Roscoe Browne) already has the noose around his neck and is about to be hung by Asa Watts (Bruce Dern) and his band of rustlers. Watts' allows Nightlinger to say a "final" prayer:
Lord, I regret trifling with married women. I'm thoroughly shamed of having cheated at cards. I deplore my occasional departures from the truth. Forgive me for taking your name in vain, my Saturday drunkenness and my Sunday sloth. Above all, forgive me for the men who I have killed in anger..{turns head to look at Watts}...and for those that I am about to.