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In the 1024th year of the Emperor's Reign
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EXECUTION TAKES PLACE
The execution of one of the two recently convicted "heretics" has today taken place. Early in March Avitus Seneca and Ulysses Tatius were convicted of attempting to desecrate the Shrine of the Emperor. The two men had both been convicted of treason and sentenced to death by garrote. The sentence of death for Avitus Seneca has however been commuted to life imprisonment on the orders of the regent. The regent released a statement saying "While Avitus is guilty by a jury of his peers of a crime against the very Empire he has in the past served in the Armed Forces with a record of outstanding service and has been a member of our nations volunteer search and rescue lifeboat service. Having seen the evidence of the case I firmly believe that Avitus is a follower in this escapade and not a leader therefore he will have the oppurtunity to spend the rest of his life in prison."

The Regent, while not showing total clemency, did also intervene in the sentence of Ulysses Tatius. Originally Ulysses would have been executed by the garrotte however the Regent ordered a firing squad instead and the execution was carried out at 8am today. A spokesman for the Imperial Prison Service said, "At just before 8am members of the Inquisition Guard removed Tatius from his cell and after allowing him time for reflection and spiritual support was escorted to the execution room. There he was strapped into a specially designed chair and four members of the Guard, selected by lot, carried out the execution. Doctors pronounced him dead immediately following the gunfire and the body will be buried with the guidance of the criminals family."

The Regent said "Some may say this is a harsh way of dealing with someone but lets remember they did not accidently wander into the garden where the Emperors Shrine is, they did not accidently take filming equipment with them and they did not accidently try and avoid detection by members of our military who guard the Emperor. They knew full well what they were doing and they knew, as do all people in the Empire, the punishment for doing so. The grounds of the Shrine even include signs forbidding people getting onto the terrace the Shrine sits on. These men intended to try and damage the very foundations of the Empire and that is unacceptable."

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