The Code stele prints numerous death penalties as completed royal-law headings
A law-collection stele is not a unique execution register. In the causal graph this event weakens Judicial independence erosion (court capture), a driver that strengthens Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score — an improving welfare path.
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A law-collection stele is not a unique execution register. Death-penalty clauses are a justice path. Twin of public-law access. Hammurabi did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.
Context
Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.
Hammurabi Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.
Hammurabi’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.
Old Babylonian chronology is reconstructed (Middle Chronology often used).
Why it matters
Twin of public-law access.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Hammurabi
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactThe Code stele prints numerous death penalties as completed royal-law headings
- weakensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
- strengthensIndicators (4)Rule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score
impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 1 January 1755 · verified
A law-collection stele is not a unique execution register.
- Better
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.4 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.72)
Observed
43.9 Score · 43.9 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal26 readings, 1996–2024: rose from 43 Score to 43.9 Score.
Normal is zero · any amount = worse
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.39 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.7)
Observed
0.55 index score (0-1) · 0.26 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.38 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.69)
Observed
0.62 score from 0 to 1 · 0.25 below the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal125 readings, 1900–2024: rose from 0.37 score from 0 to 1 to 0.62 score from 0 to 1.
Above normal = better
All indicators on this path (4)
- Better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.55 × strength 0.3)
Observed
42.5 index score (0-100) · 7.53 below the normal line (2025)
Worse than normalAbove normal = better
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Britannica — Code of HammurabiEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
- 2.Louvre — Code of Hammurabi steleMusée du Louvre · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Hammurabi did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorHammurabi
- contributed toFactThe Code stele prints numerous death penalties as completed royal-law headings
- weakensDriverJudicial independence erosion (court capture)
- strengthensIndicatorRule of Law Gap from the Highest Governance Score
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Factrail. (2026). The Code stele prints numerous death penalties as completed royal-law headings. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-stele-death-penalties
https://factrail.ai/facts/ham-stele-death-penalties
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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