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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

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Homeland thinks of victims as execution goes ahead

A man who ordered two murders while in jail for a third was executed today in the USA after spending two and a half years on death row.

The man, who under US copyright law cannot be named until the state governor publishes his memoirs, suffered the longest wait between sentence and execution for nearly ten years.

Under the Homeland Constitution, extended delays in carrying out the death sentence are designated "cruel and unusual punishment", and therefore unnecessary for the guilty and undignified for the innocent.

The executionee was elderly and in frail health, factors which also influenced the state governor in his decision to green-light the electrocution, officials said.

"About six months ago he had a stroke and almost died," said spokesperson Judson Hudson. "Specialists had to be brought in to get him into a fit state to be executed. It's a good thing they did, though. It might not have been legal if we'd left it up to God. We must think of the victims."

The Homeland Justice Department issued a brief statement endorsing the governor's decision. "The fact that two of this man's murders were ordered from inside prison vindicates the Commander-in-Chief's stance on criminal behaviour," the statement said. "We must think of the victims," it continued.

The Commander-in-Chief is known to disbelieve in the power of prison to produce "reformed characters", citing as evidence the number of ex-prisoners who re-offend and the number people in prison who are actual criminals.

The US Government is considering an extension to homeland criminals of the State Department's policy of "preventive execution", which is presently applicable only to potential terrorists in foreign countries in circumstances where the Vice-Commander-in-Chief has full deniability.

"We must think of the victims," the Commander-in-Chief said last week when announcing the policy review. "It is they whose memory is cleansed and transcendified through the execution of Christian justice. No one has the right to take that comfort away from them."

In symbolic acknowledgement of this, under the new provisions relatives of the victims of executionees will be given free pennants to attach to their loved ones' graves, reading THEY GOT THE BASTARD, or for devout families, THEY GOT THE BASTARD AND WE FORGIVE HIM.

Today's execution was the two hundred and nineteenth in the US this year, not counting several enemy combatants held in US territory who died of assertive hunger strike relief.

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