"Defendant, for the crime of intentional homicide, carried out with cruel methods—a knife attack in broad daylight that led to the deaths of multiple innocent victims at the scene..."
The judge unfolded the verdict, his voice steady and cold. Every charge he read was like a sharp arrow piercing the silence of the prison cell.
"...After deliberation by the collegiate panel, the verdict is a sentence of death, to be carried out immediately tomorrow morning!"
After he finished speaking, the judge sighed.
He looked at the silent Hu Qi.
Thinking about the case,
he couldn't help but add,
"You shouldn't have been so impulsive. They would have received the full punishment of the law. You..."
Before he could finish,
Hu Qi cut him off.
"Enough. Stop with the useless nonsense. Go. I want to be alone."
Hu Qi's voice was flat.
As the cell door closed,
the room fell silent once more.
The occasional sobs and angry curses of other prisoners could be heard from outside.
