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The record shows that you have refused to plead for your crimes. Perhaps you hope to prolong your life, knowing that you will be found guilty when you are tried. Since we are unable to commence with your trial until you have plead, I order you to the peine forte et dure. You will be drawn upon the hard stone of the prison floor. Hourly, weights will be added to your chest, slowly squeezing the breath from your lungs. Your ribs will strain under the weight until they begin to crack. You will be begging to plead very shortly, I assure you. If you feel yourself a strong one, take heart in knowing that you will be fed daily. But know also that you will be fed only mere morsels of bread, and may God have mercy should your stomach, flattened beneath the weight upon it, fail to accept your meal. You will most assuredly choke upon the bile your unwilling bowels spew forth and die, from suffocation, in your own filth. Not as sentence for your crimes, but for simply refusing to plead.

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