Execute
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Both words in one sentence
- That's fine as far as the Council's concerned, since their real goal is to conserve their limited oxygen supply by reducing the population; the only reason the kids were given their "mission" instead of just being slaughtered is that, legally, the Council's not allowed to execute children.
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Kodos the Executioner/Anton Karidian in The Original Series episode "The Conscience of the King" used this as his excuse to execute half the colonists of the Tarsus IV colony when a fungus destroyed most of their food supply.
Source: Godzilla Threshold - He first wants to ignore the Distress Call from Icarus I which turns out to be the far better thing to have done, and later volunteers to execute Trey so as to preserve what's left of their oxygen supply.
Source: Shoot The Dog / Film
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Supply and Execute. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/execute/supply
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