Any condemned citizen could evoke his right of Provocatio, which appealed any condemnation to the Century Assembly, and which was a precursor to habeas corpus.
In ancient Rome, a condemned citizen might not only lose his life.
Pete Writer condemns citizens' right to protest harmful government policies and practices ("Democrats' sit-in was shameful," 6-25-16, http://herald-zeitung.com/opinion/article_7c8bfa44-3b31-11e6-9d16-03c1321b7cc5.html ).
In Hangzhou, the Chinese city that made the most money from land sales last year, officials at a recent government forum "naturally were very worried about being condemned by citizens," Mr. Shen said.
Alexander Ramsey, the governor of Minnesota – who had made a fortune cheating the Sioux — threatened that if the president didn't hang all the condemned, the citizens of his state would.
More than a dozen prominent writers, including the Nobel laureates Nadine Gordimer and Günter Grass, have signed a strongly worded attack on Basque nationalist violence, which they say condemns citizens of the Basque region to live in fear.
Writer Condemns Citizens' Right to Protest Harmful Government Policies and Practices.
Not for the first time its courts have condemned a citizen to death for apostasy, the rejection by a believer of his or her faith.
In only two are posturing politicians still condemning their citizens to an incurable disease.
