History of Punishment and Torture  32080

  • Introduction
  • Punishment Without Mercy
    • Human Sacrifice
    • Tiberius and Caligula
    • Crucifixion
    • Persecution of Christian Martyrs
    • No Justice for Ancient Slaves
  • Medieval Justice
    • Ordeal by Fire or Water
    • Burnt but Alive
    • Mutilation
    • Torture Chambers
    • Punishment of Women
    • Burning
    • Methods of Execution
    • Pressing Cases
    • Margaret the Martyr
    • Ivan the Terrible
    • French Blood Lust
  • Inquisition
    • The Wrath of Rome
    • The Church takes over the Inquisition
    • The Inquisitors’ Work
    • Knights Templars
    • Punishment of Genius
  • Witches
    • Inquisition to Witch Hunt
    • The Witch-Finder
    • The Hunt
    • Tears of Witches and Wolves
  • Banishment
    • A Soft Option?
    • Finding the way back
    • The Trip to Botany Bay
    • Meeting the Locals
    • Keeping Law and Order
    • Norfolk Island
    • Devil’s Island
    • Banished to Siberia
  • Prisons
    • Tower of London
    • Cell Hells of the Middle Ages
    • The Cost of Confinement
    • Dark Days of Juvenile Justice
    • Punishing the Poor
    • The Hulks
    • Early Jails and Police
    • Prison Reform
    • Prison Reformers
    • Alcatraz
    • Dissident Asylums
  • Corporal Punishment
    • The Pillory and the Stocks
    • Flogging
    • Army Discipline
    • Navy Discipline
    • The Punishment of Slaves
    • The Founding Father
  • Capital Punishment
    • Rope or Axe?
    • A Royal Beheading
    • The Wives of Henry VIII
    • Mary Queen of Scotland
    • The Sword
    • Early Guillotines
    • Dr Joseph Guillotin
    • Vive La République!
    • The Reign of Terror
    • Sanson and Son
    • The Spectacle at the Guillotine
    • The Guillotine at Versailles
    • The Chamber of Horrors
    • Hanging
    • The Science of Hanging
    • The Hangman
    • Hangman’s Gallery
    • The Executioner’s Lot
    • The Condemned
    • Surviving the Noose
    • Tyburn – London’s Gallows
    • Audience Participation
    • The Body Snatchers
    • Punishing the Dead
    • Healing Touch of the Executed
    • Ruth Ellis
    • The Electric Chair
    • The Gas Chamber
    • Death Row
    • Death-Cell Lawyer
    • Execution by Firing Squad
    • An Eye For An Eye?
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