King's Justice

2 AGOT Bran I: When Lord Eddard Stark talks to his young son, Bran, after the execution to ask if he understands why he was his own justice, he makes two important points: 1) as the one to pass the sentence, you may grant mercy 2) if you aren't the one to swing the sword, you're less likely to feel the full extent of the decision to kill a man. A just lord who executes his own sentences is more likely to find reasons to be merciful.

13 AGOT Eddard II: "Ned had made the long journey west to Bear Island, only to find when he arrived that Jorah had taken ship beyond the reach of Ice and the King's Justice." 111 Ned would have executed Jorah for selling poachers to a slaver.

16 AGOT Sansa I: Cersei says it's right Ser Ilyn be fearsome. "If the wicked do not fear the king's justice, you have put the wrong man in the office. " 146

21 AGOT Eddard IV: The king cannot be accused of a crime. He'll just declare his accuser an enemy or traitor and send his headsman.

29 AGOT Catelyn V: Catelyn seizes Tyrion in the name of King Robert. However, instead of taking him to King's Landing for judgment, she takes him elsewhere.

35 AGOT Catelyn VI: Catelyn intended to bring a murderer to justice. Instead, it may be she has brought an innocent to be murdered.

39 AGOT Tyrion V: "Behold the king's justice." Lysa, referring to the moon door. Robert's judgment would have been far more lenient than even Tyrion's trial by combat, especially given the evidence against him.

40 AGOT Eddard X: "Is this your notion of justice? If so, I am pleased that I am no longer your Hand." 429 Robert would have Ned force Catelyn to release Tyrion and forget the dust up with Jaime. Cersei misrepresents events and presses Robert.

41 AGOT Catelyn VII: Tyrion's trial by combat at th Eyrie is viewed at a formality before his definite execution.

44 AGOT Eddard XI: Ned says "It's all the king's justice." 468-71 But Varys refers to Ser Ilyn Payne by that title.

66 AGOT Arya V: "So long as I am king, treason shall never go unpunished. Ser Ilyn, bring me his head." 726

A Clash of Kings

77 ACOK 4 Tyrion I: Tyrion resolves to do justice as Hand.

78 ACOK 5 Bran I: Bran is made judge in the Frey game Lord of the Crossing, tasked to notice and remember if the challenger snuck the idea "mayhaps" in.

82 ACOK 9 Tyrion II: Tyrion specifices Allar Deem not arrive at The Wall as justice for Barra and her mother, since he can't do anything to Cersei, who he believes gave the command.

116 ACOK 43 Davos II: "My lords bnnermen are inconstant even in their treasons. I need them, but you hould know how it sickens me to pardon such as these when I have punished better men for lesser crimes." 611

123 ACOK 50 Tyrion XI: Tyrion threatend Hallyne: "I've see no dragons. I have noticed the King's Justice lurking about, however. Should any of these fruits you're selling me turn out to be filled with anything but wildfire, you'll be seeing him as well." 718

129 ACOK 56 Catelyn VII: Brandon Stark cried out for justice, but was punished harshly by his king, instead, and that was called justice.

130 ACOK 57 Theon V: Theon publicly executed innocent Farlan to take the blame for the murders of the men who were with him at the mill. Whaty Theon puts forth as king's justice is really the grossest form of injustice and designed only to hide his own crimes.

134 ACOK 61 Sansa VI: Cersei sent Ser Ilyn to spike the heads of servants caught trying to escape. He returns with bloody sword.

138 ACOK 65 Arya X: With four kings, the realm has less justice, according to Roose Bolton who says "one king may be terrible, but four?" 893

139 ACOK 66 Sansa VIII: Those who fought for Stannis are permitted to beg for their lives and pledge fealty to Joffrey, but some prefer to remin true to the king they fought for and die for it, since fealty to one king may also be treason to another.

A Storm of Swords

149 ASOS 6 Davos I: Davos refers to his punishment of shortened fingers as King's Justice.

157 ASOS 14 Arya II: The kingsmen were originally sent to dispense king's justice to the Mountain. With Robert dead, Dondarrion has chosen a new mission to feed and care for the people of the ruined riverlands, as they continue to fight the Mountain and Bloody Mummers.

164 ASOS 21 Catelyn III: Robb thinks he owes it to Kevan Lannister and Genna and Emmon Frey to execute Lord Karstark for murdering Willem and Tion. He says he owes them justice, though Karstark ironically felt owed justice when he killed the boys.

171 ASOS 28 Daenerys III: Dany says Robert Baratheon was no true king. "He did no justice. Justice...that's what kings are for." 374 This is the night before Dany buys the Unsullied, suggesting she views acquiring a slave army by treachery as justice. It can look that way.

173 ASOS 30 Arya V: At Stoney Sept, Arya gives mercy in the form of drinks of water to the Karstarks in crow cages as "justice" for atrocities they committed.

176 ASOS 33 Tyrion IV: After deciding to have Symon Silvertongue murdered instead of entered into the tourney, Tyrion realizes he should have done the same for Slynt and Pycelle, having been given permission by Tywin to take the heads of traitors.

177 ASOS 34 Samwell II: "There are no laws beyond the Wall." 457 Dirk says this to Mormont, who says killing Craster broke "all ther laws of the hearth." 457

178 ASOS 35 Arya VI: The Hound's trial by combat is said to be judged by the Lord of Light. "I am a just lord," Dondarrion says.

180 ASOS 37 Davos IV: Stannis struggles to enforce what he knows to be the law regarding treason, given he is not a cruel man.

182 ASOS 39 Tyrion V: Oberyn Martll has come to Joffrey's wedding to collect on Tyrion's promise of justice for his sister Elia and her children.

183 ASOS 40 Arya VII: The trials Dondarrion holds for the Bloody Mummers taken captive are more like the interrogations conducted by Clegane's men than like any trial should be.

206 ASOS 63 Jaime VII: Tywin says the king's justice will be done as regards Joffrey's murderer. Jaime asks "You would execute your own son?" 854

207 ASOS 64 Davos VI: As he prepares to smuggle Edric Storm off Dragonstone, Davos is concerned for the lives of the conspirators, knowing each may be executed for treason.

210 ASOS 67 Tyrion IX: At Tyrion's trial, the throne sits empty and the High Septon's prayer to the Father to guide them to justice seems more symbolic than real. 900

215 ASOS 72 Daenerys VI: Though she'd hoped to pardon Jorah as she had Selmy, he proves unrepentant. Earlier, Dany compared her crucifixion of the Great Masters with Plaza of Punishment in Astapor. "I made a horror just as great, but surely they deserved it. Harsh justice is still justice." 981

216 ASOS 73 Jaime IX: Tywin orders the Mountain healer after his wounding during Tyrion's trial by combat. "it must be seen to be the sword of the king's Justice that slays him, not a poisoned spear." 1000

A Feast for Crows

240 AFFC 15 Brienne III: Pages 293-295 Lord Randyll Tarly passes judgments in the fish market. His judgments criple the innocent, mutilate the mildly miscreant and emprison the rest indefinitely. Lord Tarly treats peasants like criminals, yet Hyle Hunt sails around, a ne-er do well.

243 AFFC 18 Cersei IV: Since the sparrows are crying out that the Lannisters had a hand in the red wedding, Cersei considers Qyburn's suggestion someone be punished. Her solution is to wait for Lord Walder to die then appraoch his heir for the names of the culprits. "What better way for the new Lord of the Crossing to rid himself of inconvenient half brothers, disagreeable cousins and scheming sisters than by naming them culprits." 350

254 AFFC 29 Cersei VI: When Cersei promises vengeance to the sparrows camped outside the Sept of Baelor, a one-legged man tells her "We ask no vengeance for our dead, only protection for the living." Another man says "A king who does not protect his people is no king at all." 594

265 AFFC 40 Cersei IX: Cersei considers finding a new King's Justice, with Ser Ilyn Payne away, so as to remove Margarys head for the high treason implied in her asking for moon tea from Pycelle. Osmund Kettleblack offers. 823

268 AFFC 43 Brienne VIII: Ther Brotherhood under Stoneheart, aka the Hangwoman, hangs so many men from trees around the inn at the crossroads it's a warning. Those men had their mouths stuffed with salt, though Brienne thinks most were noth involved in the raid on Saltpans.

A Dance with Dragons

279 ADWD 8 Jon II: When Jon executes Slynt, Stannis approves.

282 ADWD 11 Jon III: "Mance Rayder's" execution. Jon is so upset he intervenes and gives "Mance" mercy. Would he have done the same for Rattleshirt? I'd like to think he would.

301 ADWD 30 Davos IV: "Ramsay took Lord hornwood's lands by forcibly wedding his widow, then locked her in a tower and forgot about her. It is said she ate her own fingers in her extremity...and the Lanniter notion of king's justice is to reward her killer with Ned Stark's little girl." 431

337 ADWD 66 Cersei II: Cersei remembers Ned's confession to treason on the steps of the Sept of Baelor

339 ADWD 68 The Kingbreaker: How do you give a trial to a king who may have aquired the position by poison? Barristan struggles to administer justice in Daenerys's absence.

344 ADWD 73 Epilogue: Kevan arranged for Qyburn's undead creature to join the kingsguard, so Cersei could be defended by him in her trial by combat. Kevan's conscience seems troubled by this and by having arranged Cersei's walk of Atonement, as well.