# Letters to Marcellinus and others ask that condemned Donatists not be executed even after the state's judgment

Date: 412

## The fact

In letters around the 411–413 Donatist aftermath, Augustine asks imperial officers, including Marcellinus, not to execute the condemned. The instrument is that no-blood plea. Fines, exile, and church seizure remain in the same file. This is not a general abolition of capital punishment in Roman Africa. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He asked for fines and exile rather than blood. He had sought the judgment. This is a limit inside a coercion file, not a rebate of Letter 93.

## Context

Marcellinus is the named tribune. Sharing the plea with him is required. Letter 93 remains the coercion-justification neighbour. City of God's just-war licence is a different violence-file. Possidius later remembers the limit. The setting of Letters to Marcellinus and others ask that condemned Donatists not be executed even after the state's judgment is the public file around 0412-06-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver justice-[judicial-independence](/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion)-erosion is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not merge with Letter 93 as a second identical letter. Compel-them is one path; no-blood is another. Mixed effects of Letters to Marcellinus and others ask that condemned Donatists not be executed even after the state's judgment are separate paths.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Britannica — Augustine, Donatists / capital punishment neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, coercion and punishment neighbourhood at https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Britannica — Augustine, Donatists / capital punishment neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine; Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Augustine, coercion and punishment neighbourhood (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Britannica — Augustine, Donatists / capital punishment neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

## Significance

Improving path from Letters to Marcellinus and others ask that condemned Donatists not be executed even after the state's judgment on 0412-06-01. A public plea against capital penalty is a justice path of medium weight, split from the stacked conference. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Letters to Marcellinus and others ask that condemned Donatists not be executed even after the state's judgment under 0412-06-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of Letters to Marcellinus and others ask that condemned Donatists not be executed even after the state's judgment under 0412-06-01.

Shared responsibility is part of Letters to Marcellinus and others ask that condemned Donatists not be executed even after the state's judgment. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0412-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## People

- Augustine Of Hippo: https://factrail.ai/people/augustine-of-hippo

## Drivers

- Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-against-execution