in 621 or 620 B.C. by a statesman named Draco. ... A 4th-century B.C. politician quipped that Draco wrote his laws not in ink, but in blood.① benign② vigilant③ ... Draconian laws are the first written code of laws drawn up at Athens, believed to have been introduced
of Draco. ... The Abolition of the Death Penalty in International Law, Cambridge University Press. ... Capital punishment for murder, treason, arson, and rape was widely common in Ancient Greece under the laws
