Execution
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death · executed · execution · execution of a criminal · public execution · put to death
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On the Mysteries
Capital punishment threatened or imposed on accused persons and false informers.
Yes, I, and I alone, was sending them to their death, if I refused to say that others were to blame;
and when you heard the facts yourselves, you handed Diocleides over to the court and put him to death.
He gave the following list of persons concerned, all of whom, save Polystratus, fled the country and were sentenced to death by you in their absence;
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
The public spectacle of putting a condemned criminal to death, analyzed for its psychological effect on spectators and its implications for the legitimacy of the laws.
The execution of a criminal is, to the multitude, a spectacle which in some excites compassion mixed with indignation.
We may read them in the contempt and indignation with which every one looks on the executioner, who is nevertheless an innocent executor of the public will;
The death of a criminal is a terrible but momentary spectacle, and therefore a less efficacious method of deterring others, than the continued example of a man deprived of his liberty, condemned as a beast of burden, to repair, by his labour, the injury he has done to society.
Memorabilia
Civic penalty delayed during the Dêlia until the embassy's return from Delos.
For he was forced to live for thirty days after the verdict was given, because it was the month of the Dêlia, and the law did not allow any public execution to take place until the sacred embassy had returned from Delos.