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- Animal saves man from death sentence. B522
- Death sentence escaped by propounding riddle king (judge) cannot solve H542
- King brought to sense of duty by woman's words. Drunken king sentences unjustly. Woman asks to appear before the king before he has dined. Her case is retried. J816.3
- Guilty man freed of murder charge is tricked into making a false accusation for which he is sentenced. J1141.12
- Bluff in court: the stone in the purse. A poor man has a stone in his purse to throw at the judge if he is sentenced. The judge thinks that he has money to use as a bribe and acquits him. K1765
- Innocent man compelled to write treasonable letter. It brings about his death sentence. K2156
- Irrevocable sentence carried out even when innocence is proved. A knight condemned for murdering his comrade is met by the latter on the way to the gallows. A centurion leads them to the emperor, who condemns all three to death: first because he has been sentenced; second for causing by his absence the conviction of his comrade; third for delay in the execution. M12
- Sentence applied to king's own son. Those caught in adultery are to have eyes put out. When king's son is found guilty he insists on the punishment. He finally compromises by having one of his own and one of his son's eyes put out. M13
- Prophecy: daughter shall commit murder and incest and be sentenced to death. M345
- Trumpet blown before house of one sentenced to death. P612
- King who loved to give death sentence accepts penance of always postponing sentence until thirty days period of examination has passed. Q520.4
- Sentence to hang remitted. Q577
- Youth saved from death sentence by father's friend. R169.6
- Kind magistrate is victim of ingratitude. Gives lawbreaker a light sentence. The latter seduces the magistrate's wife. W154.15
- Violence of judge's temper leads him to have men given death sentence unjustly. W185.5
- Chain of killings: bulbul destroys flower and is killed by cat; cat shaken by dog; dog killed by boy; boy sentenced to death by king. Z49.13