Complex sentence: Facing the death penalty and a transfer to Bang Kwang Central Prison, McMillan escaped in August 1996 by cutting his cell bars with hacksaws and scaling four inner walls during the night before mounting the outer wall using a bamboo-pole ladder.
Split into simpler sentences: Facing the death penalty and a transfer to Bang Kwang Central Prison, McMillan escaped in August 1996. He cut his cell bars with hacksaws and scaled four inner walls during the night before mounting the outer wall using a bamboo-pole ladder.