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- Hauptmann
While Mencken's description is doubtless an exaggeration,...
- The Dreyfus Affair Trials
The Court-Marial of Alfred Dreyfus. by Douglas O. Linder...
- Dan White Trial
The People v. Daniel James White; Milk: Movie Starring Sean...
- Charles Manson Trial
When "blackie," as Manson called black people, proved unable...
- Hauptmann
Although there were gaols, they were generally used to hold a prisoner awaiting trial rather than as a means of punishment. Fines, shaming (being placed in stocks), mutilation (cutting off a part of the body), or death were the most common forms of medieval punishment.
How were people punished? Punishments in the Middle Ages were meant to be a public event, which were designed to be humiliating, and often very painful. People believed that public punishments would scare others from committing crimes.
13 lis 2012 · The trial of German priest Martin Luther marked the dawn of the great Protestant Reformation, the dramatic schism of the Catholic Church which sent aftershocks, in the form of religious wars, rippling across Europe, and which began to divide the continent into its modern framework of nation-states.
Medieval trials seem very curious to the modern mind. In this account, we survey several of these peculiar trials, spanning almost a half millennium. Our goal is to make sense--if sense can be made--of the unusual means for resolving conflicts and punishing bad actors in The Middle Ages.
From 1946 to 1949, about 1 thousand people suspected of committing war crimes at Auschwitz were extradited to Poland, mostly from the American occupation zone in Germany. Charges were brought against 673 people, including 21 women. The Warsaw trial of commandant Rudolf Höss.
Juries frequently manipulated the punishment through the use of partial verdicts. Many defendants were sentenced to more than one punishment. This is particularly common for those sentenced to the pillory, imprisonment, whipping, fines and providing sureties for good behaviour.
