The capital law of the Golden Empire was an occasionally-revised edict in the Golden Empire listing a number of crimes for which all courts, on all worlds, were mandated to prescribe a sentence of death if the accused was convicted. As of 140 ABY, the list of crimes in the law was: * Treason * Desertion (military crime, during war) * Trafficking in Qua blood * Assault on the Sovereign of the Golden Empire * Slavery * Organized crime