When a minister of the fifth grade or above received a death sentence the emperor might grant him a special dispensation allowing him to commit suicide in lieu of execution. Even when this privilege was not granted, the law required that the condemned minister be provided with food and ale by his keepers and transported to the execution ground in a cart rather than having to walk there.
When a minister of the fifth grade or above received a death sentence the e.mperor might grant him a special dispensation allowing him to commit suicide in lieu of execution. Even when this privilege was not granted the law required that the condemned minister be provided with food and ale by his keepers and transported t.o the execution g,round in a cart rather than having to walk the,re