Arrested,

Tried,

Found guilty,

Guillotined,

Hanged,

Shot,

Electrocuted,

Lethally injected,

Drawn and quartered,

Disemboweled,

Gassed,

Dead.

Mourning mothers,

Fractured families,

Crying children.

Sacrifice to society,

Safer streets?

Authorized atrocity,

Vindicate victims,

Eliminate excess poor,

Crime of relying on public defence,

Crime of absent assets

Corporate criminals let off,

Legendary legal powers procured

Judges and juries wowed,

Acquittal,

Short prison stay,

Freedom.

Equal guilt,

Unequal punishment