Bloody Easter

Bloody Easter was a terrorist attack committed by the Soldiers of the Proletariat, a militant communist group opposed to the laissez-faire capitalist policies of the Lower Columbian government. The attack targeted one of the largest Christian churches in Nyhaven during a service on Easter Sunday, when attendance was unusually high; consequently, the fatality rate was much higher than it likely would have been on a different Sunday. Due to the high number of casualties and the anti-religious nature of the attack, the terrorists who were behind the attack were sentenced to death following their convictions. Bloody Easter remains the single deadliest terrorist incident in Lower Columbian history, having claimed 616 lives and injured almost 900 others.

Conviction and execution
The six members of Soldiers of the Proletariat who were charged with conspiring to commit terrorism were each found guilty on one count of conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism, one count of conspiracy to commit a hate crime, 616 counts of murder, and 895 counts of attempted murder on May 23, 1972. During their sentencing hearings, the prosecution argued that the terrorists should receive the death penalty, not just because of the sheer number of counts of which they had been convicted, but also because they targeted a church, thus making the attack a hate crime, as well as an act of terrorism. They were all sentenced to death by lethal injection on June 2 and were executed in accordance with their sentences on September 19.