Lombard, the Peckinpah hero
He's the only one who's completely honest about his crime, no pretense about what he is. He knew he was getting into something dangerous and went ahead anyway. He's the most prepared of the prey, and he almost makes it to the end.
He has a drunken party on the last night of his life, sleeps with a beautiful woman, who turns around and kills him--but he dies clean, on his feet in the open air instead of being butchered helplessly, facing his killer and fighting to the last second; the best death in the story.