Chapter 212 The execution ground shouts injustice!
Heaven has four seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter; the king has four political affairs, celebration, reward, punishment and punishment.
God's will allows virtue and not punishment. Virtue comes first and punishment comes later.
Its law is: No one can be punished in November or December." Except for those who "will never wait for the time" such as treason and treason, generally the death penalty must be executed after the frost in autumn and before the winter solstice. In autumn and winter, people are more leisurely, and everything is free.
Xiao kills so that the people can watch, warn the people, and intimidate the people not to break the law.
Autumn queen beheading represents the reprieve of death in ancient times.
It takes about three to five months from the judgment of death to the execution of the death penalty. During this period, it is possible to continue to verify the facts of the case and continue to rule out unjust and wrongful cases.
Thirty death row prisoners were pulled up and knelt on the ground. A token was inserted around their necks with the blood-red word "prison" written on it.
Around ten o'clock in the morning,
Black Fox stood in front, holding a file in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Qian Laosi, robbed a total of seventy-two taels of property, causing two deaths and five injuries. He is sentenced to beheading. Do you believe it?"
The prisoner said: "Be convinced!"
"Behead!" Li Mu waved his hand and dropped a beheading token.
An executioner stepped forward, took off the token from the prisoner's neck, raised his ghost-head knife, and dropped it with one blow.
It was clean and neat, the head fell down, and blood spurted out from the neck. The scene was bloody and terrifying.
Some people were so frightened that they screamed, some people cheered repeatedly, and some people covered their children's eyes. It was so scary that it would scare the little ones.
The scene was so bloody that Li Mu felt uncomfortable for a while.
It was too scary. It was still the electrocution death in the previous life. The injection death in the previous life was better. But the next moment, Li Mu's face turned grim... No, it was still worth preserving.
Catching the murderer is important, but preventing crimes is even more important. To prevent it, one is to improve residents' living standards, the other is to increase the cost of crime, and the other is to increase the difficulty of crime. Such a post-autumn attack can increase the cost of crime.
"Li Er, guilty of murder..."
"Sun Qianyi..."
"Zhao Beicheng..."
The black fox said the murderer's name, said the murderer's name, and then asked the murderer if he was convinced?
The murderer is encouraged!
So the executioner came forward to kill him.
To impose a sentence, the criminal must be convinced and completely admired.
Theoretically, one commits the ten evil crimes, such as treason, treason (destroying royal temples and mausoleums), treason (betraying the imperial court), treachery (beating and murdering elders), immorality (killing 3 people in the family is not a capital crime) and
dismemberment), disrespect (offending the emperor), unfilial piety, disharmony (murdering relatives), unjust (officials killing each other, soldiers killing officials, students killing teachers, etc.), civil strife (relatives committing adultery or rape, etc.).
In fact, there are only two crimes, one is murder and the other is rebellion.
In the previous Chinese criminal law, there were sixty-eight crimes punishable by death, but in total, there were only two crimes, one for homicide and one for crimes against the state.
Phew!
Phew!
Looking at the head, Li Mu changed from the initial fear to calmness.
Black Fox said again: "Yu Peimin killed his wife and was sentenced to death! Are you convinced?"
At this time, the prisoner shouted: "I didn't kill him. My wife is not mine? I had a quarrel with my wife, but I didn't have murderous intentions. It was really not me... It was torture to extract a confession. I couldn't hold it in any longer, so I confessed."
This place is really not me!"
As he talked, he started crying.
His voice trembled, as if he was afraid.
Suddenly, the executioner looked at the black fox, and the black fox looked at Li Mu.
Li Mu said: "Let me ask you again, are you unjustly accused?"
"I am really unjust. The master must make the decision for me!" As he said this, the prisoner cried again, very sadly.
Li Mu said: "When a man is about to die, his words are kind; when a bird is about to die, his song is also mournful! I hope you are innocent... But if you dare to deceive me, you will be severely punished! Take him away!"
"yes!"
So, the condemned prisoner was taken away.
Black Fox continued to read out the charges and asked the prisoners whether they were convinced or not. The prisoners confessed one by one, but no one cried out that they were wronged before execution.
Crying about injustice before execution can indeed temporarily avoid death, but as the saying goes, what is true cannot be false, and what is false cannot be true.
Many cases are not difficult to investigate and can be easily investigated.
Only those who have been truly wronged can be re-tried and may be cleansed; as for those who were originally guilty, no matter how clean they are, they cannot be cleansed.
…………
At night, Li Mu began to interrogate.
"Tell me about the case!"
Li Mu said.
"Sir, that day, I was studying at home, but a group of government officials came and said that they found the body of a woman in the west of the city, saying that it was my wife. So, I was caught and put in jail. I refused to admit it at first, so I was tortured to extract a confession.
Come on, I can’t stand it anymore, I have to admit it!”
"But I am really wronged!"
"I really didn't kill my wife!"
As he spoke, the prisoner burst into tears.
Is this case complicated? Not complicated at all!
Li Mu observed and saw through his micro-expressions that the prisoner was telling the truth and not lying.
After looking at the maid Sun Mengxi, Sun Mengxi stepped forward and activated the magic of chaos to hypnotize the prisoner. The prisoner was just an ordinary person, so naturally he couldn't bear the hypnosis and quickly spoke out.
Under hypnosis, the prisoner did not kill anyone.
"Do you think it's possible for him to resist hypnosis?" Li Mu suddenly said.
"Impossible, he is only at the eighth level and cannot withstand my hypnosis!" Sun Mengxi said.
"We can only go and check the female body!" Li Mu thought.
"But that body has been buried half a year ago!" Sun Mengxi said, "We can't open the coffin for an autopsy!"
Li Mu said: "It can't be tested!"
Insufficient equipment.
"What should we do?" Sun Mengxi said.
"What else can we do? It can only be eaten cold!" Li Mu said: "It can only be dragged away and locked in prison, waiting for the result... After all, people are not leeks! If leeks are cut, they can grow; but
Once a person's head is cut off, it will never grow back. Look for evidence and sort out the case!"
Three days later, Li Mu was handling official duties, and suddenly Liu Qingchan said: "Sir, have you found it?"
"What did you find?" Li Mu asked.
"During the Qiu Queen Execution, some death row prisoners were executed. One of the prisoners cried out on the spot, saying that he did not kill his wife, and that he did not kill anyone... It turned out that he did not lie, and now his wife is back. She has been resurrected from the dead!" Liu Qingchan said
: "No, it's not that he came back from the dead, but that he didn't die at all!"
"This is fun!"
Li Mu smiled.
He had many speculations, maybe someone killed his wife and framed Peimin.
As a result, the wife was not dead at all.
PS: There are some cards, so I will update them today.
Some plots are being conceived and the ideas are a bit messy.