Events Tagged: "punishment"

David's census and plague - unauthorized census brings plague, David buys threshing floor of Araunah for future Temple site

Death of Herod Agrippa I - struck down at Caesarea after accepting divine acclamation, eaten by worms (Acts 12)

Transportation Act - systematic deportation of convicts to colonies as criminal punishment

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

Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments - proportionality, deterrence, opposing torture and death penalty