Rome doesn’t bother with such niceties. Rome prefers to inflict as much pain as possible as it torches and hacks to death its victims.
Really? Your position is killing people softly makes them less dead? I can't imagine what your actual position is because what you wrote looks hilariously stereotypical.
"Ok, Mike, we're gonna kill ya, but we must observe the niceties so we're lining the guillotine with feathers."