Dead to Rights

He'll die, They yelled
Making plenty of noise
Until he was killed
By Illinois.

It's murder, some cried
To make him dead
But our hands are tied
By the law as it's read.

Laws be damned
Was the bluster of one
intent to be famed
When his term was done.

Then a new head of State
more politically skilled
Held up law, not his fate
Sanctioned blood again spilled.