4. It was a death penalty in practice, but not one by direct action. The death penalty by direct action was reserved for two kinds of capital offenses: military treason or desertion was punished by hanging, and rape by strangling and burial in a bog. Bog Bodies=Rapists/Adulterers
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3. The most extreme punishment for crimes considered irredeemable was outlawry: the declaration of the guilty party as beyond the protection of the law. (Worse than ostracization, it mean loss of reciprocal defense under the common law: open season on you, family, property.)
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