It's normal for nobles to wear swords at all time. Servants who mess up sometimes make penance by offering their head then and there, kneeling and exposing their nape. Usually the gesture is enough to undo the damage to their reputation or raise it higher than it was before. Sometimes the offer is accepted.
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A guillotine is set up at a public place, and a contest is announced: The goal might be to blink as many times as possible, or hold onto something with the mouth for as long as possible, or something along those lines. A wealthy sponsor will donate to charity a sum determined by both the number of participants and the highest score.
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Although capital punishment was abolished here, the traditional executioner's art- which takes years to learn properly- is still preserved. And practiced.
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An aging couple return to the country they met in as tourists. It's hard to believe after being away for so long and with practically no one talking about it where they live, but girls were killed for others' pleasure here, legally. They would watch a girl masturbating in the center of a hall, and at her climax she would have her head chopped off, and was then butchered and cooked. Is that still done? Would they even find someone who acknowledges that it was?