Oh, it got worse. Akechi had the luck of the shitty devil and didn't die during his execution, even though he was a killer.

[That trial was such a shitshow.]

They were never mandatory from what I remember, but you get a bunch of desperate assholes looking for solutions and people are willing to do whatever it takes...

[A gesture at. everything. It's pretty clear that Sanji expects for people to treat the tasks like mandates, no matter how bad they get.]