Gorean Justice-Punishments
Bastinado
a punishment not otherwise described, however the earth translation is a beating, especially with a stick or cudgel. The beating may be specifically to the soles of the feet.
Magicians of Gor, page 445
Beheading
this ancient form of execution is seen as an option when the offender is of the same Home Stone; it consists of stripping, beating and beheading the offender and is considered a merciful death.
Renegades of Gor, page 14-15
Boards (chained on)
a ancient modality of execution that involves the person being chained, by collar and shackles, on parallel upright boards. Like the punishment of hanging from an iron collar, the victim may take two to three days to die; these structures are most common in harbor cities near the wharves.
Renegades of Gor, page 14-15
Brand Penalty
small 1/4 inch brands that mark a convicted liar, thief, traitor etc.
Captive of Gor, page 310
Couching Law
any Free woman who voluntarily 'couches' with the slave of another may be taken as slave herself by the Master of the slave she 'couched' with.
Magicians of Gor, page 7 and page 303
Dung Sack
used to contain bosk (or any) dung after it has been raked up or collected; also employed as a punishment when slave girls are forced to 'spend a night in the dung sack'.
Nomads of Gor, page 285
Exile (ritual)
a man being exiled for whatever reason is publicly refused bread and salt, and is then ordered to leave the city by sundown under penalty of death. The exiled one may not come within ten pasangs of the city from that day forward.
Tarnsman of Gor, page 216
Frame of Humiliation
wooden frame to which the condemned person is tied before it is set adrift in the Vosk River so that he may die of exposure and/or dehydration if he is not eaten by tharlarion or other carnivorous reptiles.
Tarnsman of Gor, pages 136 and 138
Garbage Death
the death for a slave where a slave is bound naked, and thrown to canal urts, as in Port Kar.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 313
Girl Catch
a contest to settle disputes where young women free and slave are captured by the opposing village within a boundaried area.
Beast of Gor, page 41
Magicians of Gor, page 40
Impalement
the impalement of a person on the pole lance or spear with the dying body raised for all to view.
Tarnsman of Gor, page 157
Iron Collars (hung in)
an ancient modality of execution that involves the offenders being chained and suspended by iron collars on posts, taking two to three days to die.
Renegades of Gor, page 14
Manumission
the documented, legal freeing of a slave.
Magicians of Gor, page 460
Self-Contract (limited, slave)
an arrangement wherein a Free Woman contracts to be an experimental slave for a period of time ranging from one night to a year. Her documents will contain a specified termination date.
Blood Brothers of Gor, page 101
Slave Box (punishment)
small square (3x3') iron box with a door having a viewing aperture of 7 inches x1/2 inches in the middle and a pass-through of 12x2 inches at the base; a punishment device for slaves.
Captive of Gor, pages 313-314
Staking (exposure death by)
A death from exposure used in Klima for those attempting to escape. As the term implies, a person is staked to the salt crusts, spread-eagled, until the heat of the Tahari sun kills.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 265
Staking (sleen death or punishment by)
a form of execution or punishment used when a Master is done with a slave; he may stake her for sleen, by staking ankles and legs widely apart between two stakes. The slave is blindfolded and cut on the thigh to draw blood, smearing it across her body, to attract the animal.
Hunters of Gor, page 230 -231
Tarn Death
each limb of a person is attached by rope or chain to different tarns and the person is flown aloft then torn apart.
Tarnsman of Gor, page 158
Tharlarion (torn apart by)
a form of execution that involves ropes being tied to the offender's wrists and ankles. These bindings are attached to two different tharlarion which are then drawn in opposite directions.
Renegades of Gor, page 14
Tharlarion (trampled by)
form of execution. The offender is bound before a tharlarion and trampled to death or until maimed.
Renegades of Gor, page 14
Torturers (clan of)
found only among the Wagon Peoples, they are trained as carefully as scribes or physicians in the arts of detaining life. Though some are famous for services rendered to Initiates and Ubars, they are always hooded. The hood is removed only when the sentence is death, so that only condemned men have seen what lies beneath it.
Nomads of Gor, pages 9 and 10
Use Discipline
a punishment which avows the free man's prerogative to sexually use a house-owned girl as discipline. There are examples which state that these rights are governed by a Code, wherein a girl may not be used or disciplined without the permission of her owner.
Slave Girl of Gor, page 226
Beasts of Gor, page 174
Magicians of Gor, pages 329-330
Wagon (justice)
a form of execution which involved tar and tallow, the contents from a wagon's grease bucket, and fire; a detailed description is not given, but it is noted as evidence of the Gorean's distaste of criminals.
Renegades of Gor, page 22
Wergild
a ransom or bribe. A man who is an outlaw can redeem himself by paying a wergild to the official who sets it. Once paid he is 'pardoned' no longer an outlaw.
Marauders of Gor, page 94
Yellow Pool of Turia
housed in a magnificent chamber in the House of Saphrar is a marble basin filled with a brilliant, yellow fluid. Beneath it's oddly shifting surface is a collection of threads and granules in a transparent bag of intertwined, writhing filaments and spheres, imbedded in a darkish, yellow jelly and walled in by a translucent membrane. The pool is a living, breathing monster that slowly digests it's victims. The Yellow Pool was destroyed by Kamchak after he conquered Turia
Nomads of Gor, pages 202-213 and 322-323
