The elders of the new totalitarian government did not directly involve Socrates in the carrying out of their wicked acts — except on one single occasion.
This shows up in a different context involving exorcisms where many belief systems allow for the idea that people's behavior, particularly their evil or irrational behavior, could be because something else has taken over their bodies.
So, to discuss motive in such a cruel and violent murder seems almost beside the point, but clearly at the root of Jung's evil act was narcissism and a selfishness that blinded him to anyone else's needs but his own.
Where the sources do agree though, is that the unfortunate shot was a representation of God's vengeance against a man whose reign had always been dogged with uncomfortable accusations of blasphemy, sin, and vice.
But it's literally the same plot as The Fog, in that this town has been infected by a curse because of this sort of evil act that has been unpunished, you know?
Warner, Will and Major, according to Tanner's account of them, were melon-stealing, Sabbath-breaking niggers, and not approving of such wickedness, he felt it his duty to put them in the stocks.
So you have one edit, for example, to Cinderella that they make is doves poking out the stepsister's eyes at the end as punishment for their wickedness.