Types Of Ancient Punishments.pptx

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Types Of Ancient Punishments


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Boiling Alive

In England a law

of 1531 allowed

poisoners to be

boiled alive. In

1532 a cook called

Richard Roosewas boiled alive

and in 1542 a

woman called

Margaret Davy

was boiled alive.

However the lawwas repealed in

1547.


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Beheading is anotherancient method of

punishment.Beheading with asword or an axe mayhave been moremerciful than hanging

but that was not

always the case.Sometimes several

blows were needed tosever the personshead. In England

beheading wasnormally reserved forthe high-born. Thelast person to be

beheaded in Britainwas a Scot namedSimon Fraser, LordLovat in 1747.


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BurningBurning is a very oldmethod of killingpeople. In 1401 a lawin England madeburning the penalty forheresy. In the 16thcentury during thereign of Mary (1553-1558) nearly 300

Protestants wereburned to death inEngland. In the 16thand 17th centuries'witches' in Englandwere usually hangedbut in Scotland andmost of Europe theywere burned. In the18th century in Britainwomen found guilty ofmurdering theirhusbands wereburned. Howeverburning as apunishment wasabolished in Britain in1790.

Sometimes a personabout to be burned

was strangled with arope first to spare thempain.


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Branding

Branding people with red-hot irons is a very old punishment. In Britain branding

was abolished in 1829.


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Cangue

This was a Chinese punishment. It was a wooden board locked around the

prisoners neck. He could not reach his mouth with his arms and so could not

feed himself or drink without help.


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DrowningAlthough drowning is anobvious method of killingpeople it was seldom usedas a method of execution.The Roman writer Tacitussaid that the Germanicpeoples drowned cowardsin fens under piles of sticks.The Anglo-Saxons alsosometimes used drowningas a punishment. In the

Middle Ages drowning wassometimes used to punishmurder. In England in the13th century it was enactedthat anybody whocommitted murder on theking's ships would be tiedto their victims body andthrown into the sea todrown.

In Portsmouth at that timemale murderers wereburned but femalemurderers were tied to apost in the harbour and leftto drown when the tidecame in.

Drowning was occasionallyused in Europe through thefollowing centuries. It wasrevived in the FrenchRevolution in Nantes by aman named Jean Baptiste

Carrier as a convenientway of killing largenumbers of people. They


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Electric Chair


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Garrotting

Garrotting was a form of strangulation. Often it was carried out using a metal

collar attached to a post, which was tightened around the person's neck.

Garrotting was once used in Spain.


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Gas Chamber

The gas

chamber was

first used in the

USA in 1924.

The condemned

man is strappedto a chair in a

sealed room,

which is then

filled with

cyanide gas.

After his deathpowerful fans

remove the gas.


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GuillotineThe French Revolution isnotorious for its use of theguillotine. In factmechanical devices forbeheading people hadbeen used in various partsof Europe for centuriesbefore the FrenchRevolution. (One wasrecorded in Ireland as earlyas 1307).

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin(1738-1814) proposed thatthere should be a swift andhumane method ofexecuting people in France.The French Assemblyagreed to his idea in 1791and the first decapitatingdevice was built by a mannamed Tobias Schmidt,with advice from a surgeonnamed Antoine Louis. Thefirst person to be executedby the new machine wasNicolas Jacques Pelletier in1792.

The guillotine was last usedin France in 1977. TheFrench abolished capitalpunishment in 1981.

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