Right of Pit and Gallows

[Sigrdrífa the Priestess 0]

Yo, listen up, Fellow Stormarkers!

 

A High Priestess wishes to know from you whether Storish Jarl(a)s have got the right of pit and gallows?

[Astrid 0]

Worshipful Sister Sigrdrífa,

 

Yes, Jarls of the High Realm do more or less have the right of pit and gallows since they serve as Law Courts of First Instance.

[Sigrdrífa the Priestess 0]

 

 

 

A High Priestess is going to purchase one of these then.

[Astrid 0]

 

 

 

 

 

A High Priestess is going to purchase one of these then.

 

Bwahahaha!

 

Article XIII.

No one shall be sentenced to death, tortured or otherwise treated in a manner violating human dignity.

 

Please do keep in mind, Worshipful Sister Sigrdrífa, that the death penalty is outlawed under Article XIII of the Fifth Chapter of the High Law.

[Elijah Ayreon 0]

What is the right of pit and gallows?

[Astrid 0]

The right of pit and gallows is the tradtional term for the right of certain chieftains to dispense justice; the term "pit" refers to the right to throw people into a dungeon, and the "gallows" refers to the, nowadays obsolete, right to execute them.

[Elijah Ayreon 0]

But don't the jarls sit as courts of law in their own jarldoms? Or has that changed since I last was a patrician?

[Astrid 0]

Jarls of the High Realm are chieftains and they are nowadays the only chieftains that under Storish law have the power to dispense justice due to them serving as the Courts of First Instance of their jardoms.

[Imaia Vauqi 0]

[T]he death penalty is outlawed under Article XIII of the Fifth Chapter of the High Law.

 

[Astrid 0]

What about lifting the ban on the death penalty?

[Sigrdrífa the Priestess 0]

A High Priestess wishes to convey that she would be in favour of introducing the death penalty for the following offences: treason, treachery, murder, arson, sabotage, rape, Lèse-Majesté, Lèse-Souveraineté, sedition, robbery, secession, piracy, espionage, theft, insolence, and cat-calling.

[Unna 0]

A High Priestess wishes to convey that she would be in favour of introducing the death penalty for the following offences: treason, treachery, murder, arson, sabotage, rape, Lèse-Majesté, Lèse-Souveraineté, sedition, robbery, secession, piracy, espionage, theft, insolence, and cat-calling.

 

Pray be adviced that sacrilege, usurpation, mutiny, insubordination, and terrorism must need to be added as well.

[Elijah Ayreon 0]

You would clearly need to define those offences. Else the entire nation will be subjected to the death penalty "Insolence", "cat-calling", "sabotage". Basically, anyone who doesn't agree with the the judge

[Astrid 0]

You would clearly need to define those offences.

 

That is very much inherent to writing penal provisions. Talking about forcing an open door!

[Astrid 0]

A High Priestess wishes to convey that she would be in favour of introducing the death penalty for the following offences: treason, treachery, murder, arson, sabotage, rape, Lèse-Majesté, Lèse-Souveraineté, sedition, robbery, secession, piracy, espionage, theft, insolence, and cat-calling.

 

Worshipful Sister Sigrdrífa,

 

How would you like the death penalty to be carried out?

[Sigrdrífa the Priestess 0]

A High Priestess wishes to convey to her Sweet Sister Astrid that she will want the death penalty to be carried out by beheading, except in case of theft which should be done by hanging. The jarla of the jarldom where the capital crime occurred should swing the blade, using her Valtian steel sword.

[High Queen Sigrid 0]

A High Priestess wishes to convey to her Sweet Sister Astrid that she will want the death penalty to be carried out by beheading, except in case of theft which should be done by hanging. The jarla of the jarldom where the capital crime occurred should swing the blade, using her Valtian steel sword.

 

Here, here! Though, we do need to repeal Article XIII of the Fifth Chapter of the High Law in order for it to take effect.

[Imaia Vauqi 0]

Beheading and hanging are terribly outmoded. I believe that executions should be done by electric chair, firing squad, and/or mindwipe.

[Elijah Ayreon 0]

Can't you just put them to sleep? No need to make a spectacle of it all. Though, I do find the whole concept of the death penalty rather outdated and bad. But if you really want to reintroduce it, please, don't make a spectacle out of it.

[Astrid 0]

A High Priestess wishes to convey to Sweet Sister Astrid that she will want the death penalty to be carried out by beheading, except in case of theft which should be done by hanging. The jarla of the jarldom where the capital crime occurred should swing the blade, using her Valtian steel sword.

 

* Starts oiling Iron Thorn. *

 

Absolutely!

 

Beheading and hanging are terribly outmoded. I believe that executions should be done by electric chair, firing squad, and/or mindwipe.

 

Beheading is the bomb!

 

Mindwipe could be used for offences such as theft and cat-calling.

 

Can't you just put them to sleep? No need to make a spectacle of it all. Though, I do find the whole concept of the death penalty rather outdated and bad. But if you really want to reintroduce it, please, don't make a spectacle out of it.

 

Executions should, of course, be done in private.

[Astrid 0]

Worshipful Sister Sigrdrífa,

 

Where would you like the death penalty to be carried out?

[Sigrdrífa the Priestess 0]

Worshipful Sister Sigrdrífa,

 

Where would you like the death penalty to be carried out?

 

A High Priestess wishes to convey to her Sweet Sister Astrid that she will want the death penalty to be carried out at ancient traditional sites suchas moot hills, islets, or crossroads.

[Astrid 0]

 

A band of outlaws "hanging out" with Jarl Harald's Hird during the Days of the Old Tale.

[Astrid 0]

 

That's the way to do it!

[High King Harald 0]

 

 

A band of outlaws "hanging out" with Jarl Harald's Hird during the Days of the Old Tale.

 

 

Hahaha!! That adds a whole new dimension to the term hanging out.