Garrotering, giljotinering, kölhalning osv. finns många andra bara att använda fantasin. Fast jag tror inte att nån av dom användes i Midgård direkt.
Att det i Gondor fortfarande fanns dödsstraff gör Faramir tydligt:
Citera:
I should now take you back to Minas Tirith
to answer there to Denethor, and my life will justly be forfeit, if I now
choose a course that proves ill for my city.
The window of the West TT.
Sen också Theodens omnämnande av gibbet i The Voice of Saruman....
Citera:
When you hang from a gibbet at your window for the sport of your own crows, I will have peace with you and Orthanc.
Skulle tro, utan att ha några egentliga belägg, att hängning var den avrättningsmetod som användes (om det ens kom på tapeten).
Man kan även resonera som så att Beregonds fruktan över vad straff Aragorn skulle tilldöma honom inte var helt ogrundad. Tar mig friheten att posta ett lite längre utdrag ur The Steward and the King, ROTK:
Citera:
And the King said to Beregond: 'Beregond, by your sword blood was
spilled in the Hallows, where that is forbidden. Also you left your post
without leave of Lord or of Captain. For these things, of old, death was the
penalty. Now therefore I must pronounce your doom.
'All penalty is remitted for your valour in battle, and still more
because all that you did was for the love of the Lord Faramir. Nonetheless
you must leave the Guard of the Citadel, and you must go forth from the City of Minas Tirith.'
Then the blood left Beregond's face, and he was stricken to the heart
and bowed his head. But the King said.:
'So it must be, for you are appointed to the White Company, the Guard
of Faramir, Prince of Ithilien, and you shall be its captain and dwell in
Emyn Arnen in honour and peace, and in the service of him for whom you
risked all, to save him from death.'
And then Beregond, perceiving the mercy and justice of the King, was
glad, and kneeling kissed his hand, and departed in joy and content. And
Aragorn gave to Faramir Ithilien to be his princedom, and bade him dwell in the hills of Emyn Arnen within sight of the City.