"It wouldn't be the first time," Banks said, remembering that more than one executed villain had died on his knees praying for his life.

She was on her knees praying, her back stiff and unforgiving.

Some stared up at the sky, others were on their knees praying for sanity.

He had been on his knees praying to the God of his fathers.

"I was on my knees praying, and I heard a voice," Howard recalls.

"You ought to be on your knees praying for the Creator to heal your wife," another man put in.

A priest was on his knees praying, with the goat nudging him in the back and the chickens pecking at the ground.

"I was on my knees praying," Walsh said.

Directly in front of Mary is a young woman also on her knees, praying, with her head bowed.

Beside the man is a woman on her knees praying.