The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut off a head unless there was a body to cut it off from: that he had never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin at HIS time of life.
ezin dela buru bat moztu gorputz bati atxikita ez badago, berak sekula ez duela horrelakorik egin lehenago, eta ez zela bere bizitzaren garai honetan hasiko. Erregearen argudioa, berriz, honakoa zen: