Death penalty
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Death · death penalty · punish with death · sentence of death
in the texts
Against Leptines
Capital punishment used in the speaker's comparisons of legal severity.
If you punish with death those who debase the coinage, I shall be surprised if you lend an ear to men who render our whole State base and counterfeit.
Death is what he means, for such is the punishment in that case.
Apollodorus Against Nicostratus
A possible sentence for Arethusius that Apollodorus says he declined to press.
When it came to fixing the penalty, the jurymen wished to impose a sentence of death upon him, but I begged them to do nothing like that on a prosecution brought by me, and I agreed to the fine of a talent which these men themselves proposed,—not that I wished to save Arethusius from the death penalty (for he deserved death on account of the wrongs which he had committed against me), but that I, P …
For these men, when the jurors wished to impose a sentence of death upon Arethusius, begged the jurors to impose a fine in money, and begged me to give my assent to this;