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Billingsly plans to have 70 men, including the captain of the Ajax executed for following orders he gave them by claiming they acted on their own.
Source: Literature / Destroyermen -
Family structures in this world are also different, so if a sister commits treason and there isn't reasonable evidence that she acted alone, the entire family is executed down to the infants.
Source: Deliberate Values Dissonance - Also, while DS9's Ferengi were often amoral scumbags, their outright evil TNG forebearers dressed in Klingon-esque primitive, fur-sashed mail uniforms, acted half-feral, executed second officers as a diplomatic act, and were stated to eat sapient beings.
Source: Continuity Drift
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