Regicide of criminology asserts that the punishment "should fit the crime", and should thus be proportionate and not extreme. This approach was spoofed by Gilbert and Sullivan, when The Mikado sang, ""My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time, to let the punishment fit the crime"". In common with earlier executions for regicides: In both the François Ravaillac and the Damiens cases, court papers refer to the offenders as a patricide, rather than as regicide, which lets one deduce that, through divine right, the king was also regarded as "Father of the country". Regicide The broad definition of regicide (
The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is the promotion and performance of theater, musical theater and opera, including the works of Gilbert & Sullivan. The company is based in Long Island, New York and was founded in 1954. There had been Gilbert & Sullivan performances on Long Island since at least the 1920s, ranging from school shows to community-theater productions. But there had never been an ongoing Gilbert & Sullivan company in the area until the Gilbert & Sullivan