14^th Imperial Decree – 1^st amendment: Execution of Capital Criminals

A criminal convicted of a capital crime has forfeit their life, however the actual time and method of their execution is to be determined as part of their judgment. It is decreed to be legal for life-forfeit persons to have their lives sold at auction, such that the purchaser may keep or execute them at his own leisure, except that they must be identified as legally dead, and if found outside the property of their purchaser, not in the bonded custody of their purchaser, then any free citizen, soldier, or priest may enact the execution immediately. Only through direct appeal to the Emperor, or by the words of the Gods, may the life-forfeit have their lives returned to them.

© Tim Hart 2002
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