Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that an offender is to be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as łајаłьен (rajarqen) /ɹajaɹqen/, an execution. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes, off which Illte has only two; for usury, and for unlawful suffering.
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Usury
Usury, the act of earning money on money, also known as interest, was outlawed by King Zara in 398 a.Q. The act of usury was the first law to introduce capital punishment as a mandatory sentence for a prescribed crime.
The reason for making usury a capital crime was that usury made the debtor a virtual slave to the creditor. While being in debt, a debtor would have to serve the creditor with regular payments until the debt was paid off, with interest. If anything would happen to the debtor while serving the creditor, the repercussions for the debtor's family could be sever. In worst cases a debtor's family would risk starvation and death.
The enactment of this Act put a final end to the civil war, as the reason for the bloodshed, usury, disappeared.
Note that while the act of usury banned the act of earning money on money, it does not make it illegal for a debtor to donate an additional sum to the creditor, as a sign of good will, though this practice became obsolete with the digital revolution.
Unlawful Suffering
The act of unlawful suffering was the second law to make capital punishment mandatory. The law was enacted in 421 a.Q by King Zara.
The act describes unlawful suffering as any action, where one by action, or by inaction, causes any inhabitant of Illte to endure suffering beyond what one must naturally expect of life. Unlike The act of usury, this description is left vague by design as it is impossible to construct an exact method of measuring what constitutes suffering beyond what one must naturally expect from life. One thing that can be certain is that this act makes torture a capital crime.
Torture
Torture, the act of inflicting severe pain or suffering on a person as punishment, for the purpose of extracting information or a confession, or to intimidate a subject, is clearly outlawed by The act of unlawful suffering. As a minimum one can assume that the use of methods such as corporal punishment, mutilation, and electroshock are included within this concept.
