[ IP ] Ave , Imperator , morituri te salutant

Friday evening every television in the Dominion clicked on. This was nothing new. Live executions have been aired at this time for nearly ten years. Every citizen of the Dominion was required to watch. They had seen thousands killed in elaborate ways, all of them cruel. These broadcasts served a harsh reminder of what would happen if one found themselves on the wrong side of the law. 
 
 Tonight Harry Rourke would die. His crime of slander against the Dominion was deemed punishable by death. The camera showed Supreme Leader Toyo sitting front row. He always attended executions. Many said he enjoyed them. After his crimes were read Harry received his last words. 
 
 `` Ave, Imperator, morituri te salutant,'' said Harry with a grin. 
 
 Supreme Leader Toyo stood up and replied, `` Ah, I see you are a bright young man man Mr. Rourke... Aut non.'' 
 
 After the last words had been spoken it was time to see what the method of execution would be. Workers strapped Harry up to a device and the audience was told of tonight's method. If Harry stopped talking the device would send an electrical current through his body. These shocks would start out small and increase every pause in his speech. 
 
 Harry began his speech. Telling the viewers of his story. How his wife was sent to a work camp for refusing to sleep with a corrupt enforcer. Told the enforcers came into his home and murdered his child as punishment for his wife's failed escape attempt. Harry followed his story with encouragement. The people of the Dominion did n't have to stand for this. He spoke of great rebellions of the past. If it was done before then it could be done again. 
 
 Several hours into his speech the shocks were starting to cause real damage. The pain was making it hard for Harry to continue so the shocks came more frequently. This is when the Supreme Leader expected Harry to break. This was when the example was to be made. The point where the people realized that if they did n't keep their mouths shut they would suffer the same terrible fate. Every execution was planned out by top psychologists to make sure it struck fear in the citizens, and it always work. 
 
 It always worked until now. They could not break Harry because he was already a broken man. A shell of a man who only lived to spite those who had wronged him. He kept going on with his speech even as the smell of burning flesh began to fill the execution room. Eventually Harry was reduced to simply repeating the words, `` Stand up.'' 
 
 Four hours into the broadcast the execution was not having the expected result. The broadcast was cut and Harry was promptly shot. The people had already heard his message. The people of the Dominion stood up.
