Once convicted, there could only be one rapidly executed sentence: death by hanging from the yardarm.

The denizens of Red Cow imposed the law and executed sentences without the delays that mark the softness of civilization.

That my friend succumbed, I admit; that he was his own judge, the severest, and passed and executed sentence on himself, I have now to show.

In the eyes of the law, it mattered less than nothing whether it had been Lieutenant Castella o's fire or hers that executed sentence upon him, but it mattered to her.