types of crimes and punishments.
Wrong-doing in the Medieval ages were severely punished. Many crimes like murder and high treason were punished by execution and torture while people accused of lower crimes were punished with humiliation and fines. Today in the modern world criminals are still penalized for their crimes but the punishments are far less brutal and many crimes in the Middle ages are no longer considered offenses in the modern world (eg: A baker who baked underweight bread, this was actually considered a crime in Medieval Europe.)
In the Middle Ages there was a punishment for pretty much anything, baking underweight bread or even gossip was punishable. Crimes involving murder, treason, ''witchcraft' or even Heresy in the Middle Ages always resulted with execution but the first the accused would suffer horrific torture. Many devices were used to inflict maximum pain on criminals but the most popular ways to torture criminals involved men being drawn and quartered while alive and women burning to death.For more petty crimes the punishments ranged from wearing a mask to shame to having your hands cut off. Torture was also used to get confessions out of people without killing them.
In the current world the death penalty is still an option in some countries but only involves a painless lethal injection and torture is completely banned in almost all parts of the globe. |