>>76018008Law and Order in Morijigoku
Morijigoku has an unusual approach to its legal system, wherein it's theologically motivated, and staffed by members of the various religious orders. This aspect gives it a reputation for being somewhat antiquated in other countries, but satisfaction with its outcomes is high in the population.
Its foremost feature is that a set of crimes are considered blasphemous: unholy deaths, which include suicide and killing by any individuals who lack the priesthood's blessing to deal death, and true necromancy, which requires the reinstallment of the soul in a deceased body (This nuance makes the puppeting of corpses a much lesser crime). Being found guilty of any of these will lead to a ritualistic death forsaking one from the honours due all deaths, with the details of the death varying based on the local denomination. The sacred scythe is never used in these, as it is reserved for holy deaths. Beheading with a sword is most common, though the stabbing of the heart with a dagger is also frequent.
In smaller communities, rituals intended to inflict pain alongside death exist. "Separation" is a process wherein each limb is taken from the forsaken one through amputation, starting with the arms, legs, and finally head, though the individual usually passes out from shock by the second arm, and will quickly bleed out from the untreated leg amputation. Most fearsome is the "Breaking", in which every bone of the body is expertly broken, one by one from the fingertips to the shoulder joint, from the toes to the hip bone, and finally from the coccyx up the spine to the skull. There are no records of a criminal surviving much past the start of the "spine" phase of the process. Such barbarous rituals are unseen in larger cities, and only found in more remote communities.
For lesser crimes, corporeal punishment is preferred to imprisonment, as the keeping of men in prisons as cattle is considered an uncouth and dishonorable retribution; amputation of fingers for grand theft, castration for rape and lashings for misdemeanors such as venial theft, unsanctified dueling with no fatalities, or trespassing. This makes criminals easily identified, but the populace's general confidence in the system's ability to curb recidivism allows them to be relatively smoothly re-integrated into society, though a portion of disdain from some is always present.
