In favor! Sounds like a fun time!

Against. Her backup plan if she can't marry up is to go home and be a magistrate and organizing public spectacles sounds exhausting and irksome.

As in committee so here. It's not mandatory, and if people want to know something they should be able to go and have a look.

In favor; one has to keep the rabble in line somehow.

Honestly Soler can't get worked up about this either which way. If there were a proposal to let the condemned invite people to be with them in their final moments, sure, but if you have to have both or neither of spectators and loved ones there's no clear win. Abstain.

In favor. She didn't go to Barro's trial but if they'd had the trial and then announced he was going to get his head chopped off in front of everybody she'd have gone to that part.

He doesn't actually care. If it were up to him he'd leave it entirely up to the magistrate, but neither voting in favor nor against actually accomplishes that.

On the other hand, he's sure Galè would love it if the magistrates had all his enemies dragged away and killed in secret, and if he can stop him from getting what he wants at no personal cost that seems like a win.

In favor.

Against. If somebody is concerned that somebody's flaying men alive in their dungeons they can just buy a truth spell about it, no need for pomp and circumstance.

Don't they have more important things to do? Abstain.

In favor, if you can see the death you can follow the body and make sure it's not going to throw a ghost.

Against. Doesn't seem decent, putting about that someone's going to hang and making it a whole event.

Against. If the Crown decides he should die he wants to at least have the chance to try bribing the executioner.

Arlet killed her husband well before the amnesty so it's not about what can be done to her at all, silly speechifier. If one of her boys went bandit and was going to hang for it, though, hm. ...Private's better, spare her deciding whether to watch or not. Against.

Abstain.

In favor. Somebody might need to say goodbye.

Against. It can be optional to attend on paper and everyone can still take studious note of who shows and who skips and make any inferences that pop into their head about it.

Oh, this one's tough. On the one hand Laia loves spectacle, and also kind of thinks you could do blood opera in a Good way if you were very careful. On the other hand, that... is almost certainly not what is on the table here. What's on the table here is an opportunity to indulge petty sadism. Which... is an impulse people won't stop having just because they can't watch executions, they're going to torture pigeons or piss on sleeping beggars or beat their children, and that's worse than just watching a death that was going to happen anyway! But will having executions to watch quell or stoke that vice? She doesn't know. She still doesn't know after asking Shelyn. Abstain.

Do it in public. Whether you're doing something needful or you're making a martyr, either way, do it in public. In favor.

Everyone knows Lastwall's way only works because they have a god at the head of it. In favor.

It seems sensible enough. Killing soldiers in front of their fellows is a good way to get them to break and run, it stands to reason that killing criminals publicly discourages the rest. In favor.

He abstains! He doesn't actually know.

So this means it's illegal to admit anyone who was executed privately was executed? Not being able to talk about things is inconvenient. On the other hand, talking is illegal anyway. Probably not that important. Abstain.

Well, everyone seems to agree Asmodeus is in favor of public executions.

For.

Against, because the church is. Honestly he thinks that public long-drop has been good for Menador, and requiring private executions sounds logistically complicated (and likely to trade off against being able to do long-drop hanging properly), but he's not under the impression that the status quo currently requires private executions anyway.

This is not one of the important battles, in the end.

Cerdanya said a bunch of fancy words about being careful but in the end he still called for abolishing slavery.

On the other hand, so did a lot of the people who spoke against this. And Fraga was against abolishing slavery.

It's a tough decision. In the end he abstains.