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Crimanal punishment

Crimanal punishment. Ryan Messinger Pd.2. punishment. The state took out prisoners sometimes depending on what they did and hung them until they are half dead. punishment.

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Crimanal punishment

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  1. Crimanal punishment Ryan Messinger Pd.2

  2. punishment • The state took out prisoners sometimes depending on what they did and hung them until they are half dead.

  3. punishment • After they got hung to the point were they were almost dead they would take them down and their members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and thrown into a fire while they are still alive.

  4. punishment • If someone wasconvicted of wilful murder, done either upon pretended malice or in any notable robbery, he is either hanged alive in chains near the place where the crimewas committed (or else upon compassion taken, first strangled with a rope), and so continueth till his bones consume to nothing.

  5. punishment • When wilful manslaughter is perpetrated, beside hanging, the offender has his right hand commonly stricken off near the place where the act was done, after which he is led forth to the place of execution, and there put to death according to the law."

  6. Suicide • If some were to commit suicide they were buried with a stake driven in their body.

  7. Cruel punishment • Sometimes depends on what you do they will force you to lay down on sharp rocks and they would put a board on your chestand put weights down and press the board and crush your body until they are dead

  8. punishment • The punishment of Death by the axe was a terrifying prospect. The executioners often took several blows before the head was finally severed. The punishment of death by Execution were held in public and witnessed by many people

  9. Some of the punishments • Hanging • Burning • The Pillory and the Stocks • Whipping • Branding • Pressing • Ducking stools • The Wheel • Boiling in oil water or lead (usually reserved for poisoners ) • Starvation in a public place • Cutting off various items of the anatomy - hands, ears etc • The Drunkards Cloak

  10. Most common crimes • The most common crimes were theft, stolenpurses, begging, poaching, adultery, debtors, forgers, and fraud. Theft for stealing anything over 5 pence resulted in hanging.

  11. Worked Cited • Alchin, Linda. Elizabethan Crime and Punishment. William Shakespeare info. 2005. Web. 18 Jan. 2012.

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