Events Tagged: "death penalty"

Roman law forbids women drinking wine - punishable by death, husbands can kill wives for wine drinking (ius osculi - right of kiss to detect)

Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae - harsh laws for Saxony, death for refusing baptism or eating meat during Lent

English statute makes fraudulent bankruptcy a capital crime - concealing assets from creditors punishable by death

Last execution for blasphemy in Scotland - Thomas Aikenhead hanged, showing waning of religious criminal law

Waltham Black Act - creates 50 new capital crimes, harsh criminal law for property protection

Murder Act - denying burial to murderers, bodies given for dissection, exemplary punishment