DEATH PENALTY
WHEN LIFE GENERATES DEATH (LEGALLY)

ANCIENT EGYPTIANS

The ancient Egyptians were a North-African people, who occupated the present Egypt; the Egyptian civilization started in the IV millennium b.C. and ended in the IV century a.D., due to the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great and the admission to the Persian Empire.

Among ancient Egyptians, death penalty is applied for those who break Maat, the universal Law strictly observed in Egypt. This law includes crimes such as murder, theft, sacrilege, attempt on Pharaon (seen as a guarantor of the Law) and spying. There is no arbitrariety, judgements are equal for everyone, the rich and the poor, the noble and the meek; or at least, it should be so.
Death penalty is applied through beheading, sacrifice, or drowning in the Nile in a close sack.