She would not be conscious then, and I doubt your fierce little Commissioner would go to the unethical limits of dead-braining a live woman.
Dead-braining him had produced no further relevant information.
He finally ended the battle by brainingit with his fist, and it had not ceased to struggle when he leaped the wall, hotly pursued by the remainder of the flock, pecking viciously at his legs.
The soldier gave vent to a howl of anguish and dashed her to the ground; raising his uninjured fist above her head he was on the point of braining her.
What would there be to prevent my braining the Indian in his tracks and then escape?
How would it be if the "life-termer" were assured against any additional inconvenience for braining a guard occasionally, or strangling a chaplain now and then?