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[[Human]]ity is not the only species to administer the death penalty. The [[Covenant]] punish various infractions of varying degrees with death: captured prisoners are executed once their usefulness has ended;<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]''', [[campaign]] level ''[[Sierra 117]]''</ref> incompetent [[Unggoy]] are brutally killed, or even fed to [[Kig-Yar]];<ref>'''[[Halo: First Strike]]''', ''page ??''</ref> leaders responsible for military failures, such as [[Thel 'Vadam]]ee, are publicly humiliated and executed;<ref>'''[[Halo 2]]''', campaign level ('''[[Prophet of Truth]]''': "The [[High Council|Council]] decided to have you hung by your entrails and your corpse paraded through the city.)</ref> and [[heretics]] and other dissidents are silently assassinated.<ref>'''Halo 2''', campaign level ''[[Uprising]]''</ref> The Covenant seem more free in dispensing their form of justice, often without any form of trial other than a public shame inquisition, and use them as opportunities to serve as examples to others who would follow in their footsteps, of the consequences of those who fail or oppose the [[Hierarchs]] and their followers. At the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]], the High Prophet of Truth was essentially executed by [[Thel 'Vadam]] with an [[energy sword]] following the Covenant's defeat at the [[Battle of Installation 00]].<ref>'''[[Halo 3]]''', campaign level ''[[The Covenant (level)|The Covenant]]''</ref>

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File:Tartarus Torture.jpg|Tartarus preparing to torture and execute 'Vadamee in ''Halo 2''.

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