Simplify the following text for a Grade 7 native English-speaking person.
Original: He is quoted to have said `` Death with the sword in hand , is always preferable to execution by a mere stroke of the pen , prompting the Indian government to call him the `` Nizam 's Frankenstein monster '' .
Simplified: He is quoted to have said `` Death with the sword in hand , is always preferable to extinction by a mere stroke of the pen . `` prompting the Indian government to call him the `` Nizam 's Frankenstein monster . ''