Hangings in Port Royal
[camera opens on a noose, East India Company flag, then shows people walking up to a row of gallows, seven at a time]Officer: In order to effect a timely halt to deteriorating conditions, and to ensure the common good, a state of emergency is declared for these territories, by decree of Lord Cutler Beckett, duly appointed representative of His Majesty the King. By decree, according to martial law, the following statutes are temporarily amended: right to assembly, suspended. [shot of feet coming through gallows floor] Right to habeus corpus, suspended. [shot of feet coming through gallows floor] Right to legal counsel, suspended. [shot of feet coming through gallows floor] Right to verdict by a jury of peers, suspended. [shot of feet coming through gallows floor] All persons convicted of piracy, or aiding a person convicted of piracy, or associating with a person convicted of piracy, shall be sentenced to hang by the neck until dead.Child [singing]: The king and his men, stole the queen from her bed, and bound her in her bones. The seas be ours, and by the powers, where we will, we'll roam.[executioner places child on top of barrel so he reaches the noose]Man [singing]: Yo, ho, all hands, hoist the colors high.All [singing]: Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die.Officer: Lord Beckett. They've started to sing, sir.Beckett: Finally.All [singing]: Yo ho, all together, hoist the colors high. Heave ho, thieves and beggars, never shall we die.