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Early on most offences could carry the death penalty - but it was carried out as retribution between families. Draco produced a code where it was applied to most crimes, and when queried about to same penalty applying to both great and small crimes, replied that the thought the lesser ones deserved death, and couldn't think of anything greater for the greater ones.

However, very quickly it was changed to payment or enslavement. Most of the civil disputes were resolved in this way, with families negotiating a settlement.

Their word for 'justice' really meant 'settlement' - the aim was to resolve problems and avoid ongoing vendettas between families. The formal penalty system applied to crimes against the state which might involve revolution, treason, serious religious breaches which might put the state at risk of retribution from the gods.Some things which might seem to have warranted execution were resolved by exile. Socrates was given execution nominally for impiety, though the underlying reason was his stirring up the youth to have independent thought and so imperiling the traditional order of things in Athens.

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Sacrilege, treason, murder. However most offences could be settled by payment in lieu.

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Murder, Hubris, Impiety.

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