[Purulent Carcass]

Regarding punishments:

I believe the laws are actually extremely difficult to enforce. We have two options laid out for normal punishment, thats slavery and death. Enslaving adventurers is even less easy than simply killing them due to the requirements to make a PC a slave, not to mention being able to make a slave playable enough its not a retiring factor. Kill someone and they come right back generally. Granted.. that can be overcome but dead PCs are not being played and we aren't trying to discourage the players with harsh sentances that are game stoppers for them.

Regarding the Law:

The law has been argued over in the past between commoners and it has been my understanding that the laws as they are written down are not generally available for commoners to peruse. The only place they are actually written down in game is inside of legion barracks. This lends to the idea that the law is generally interpretable by the situation at hand. Who is grieving? Who is accused? How important or powerful.. or well connected are each individual? Who paid a bribe ahead of time to ensure the situation went their way?