Vous pouvez consulter un prisonnier pour savoir s'il veut qu'on lui tranche la tête le lendemain matin, et il répondra probablement qu'il ne veut pas. Ensuite, quand vous lui trancherez la tête le matin, vous pourrez dire que vous l'avez consulté.
You can consult the prisoner as to whether he would like to have his head chopped off in the morning, and on the whole he is likely to say that he would rather not, and then when you chop his head off in the morning you can say that you consulted with him.