Did anyone drive a wooden stake through his heart to make sure?

Influential to? More like “puppeteer of”.

Yup. 🎻

Right‼️🤬🤬

Get bent.

This signals a shift from legal process to political theater, where refusal to participate in spectacle is punished

Authoritarian pattern :
Weaponized justice system
Loyalty enforcement through public humiliation
Punishment of institutional resistance
Spectacle over substance