Types of punishment.
People often had their right hand cut off for stealing, people were beaten, burned alive, stretched on rack and women committing adultery were drowned.
Suffocating people in water was a common
practice. People were boiled in oil, eyes were burned out with pinchers
and fingers cut off.
On some occasions when they were hung up, and
they would be taken down just before their death and quartered (cut into four
pieces) so that the pain would kill them, a horrible way to die.
People often had their right hand cut off for stealing, people were beaten, burned alive, stretched on rack and women committing adultery were drowned.
Suffocating people in water was a common
practice. People were boiled in oil, eyes were burned out with pinchers
and fingers cut off.
On some occasions when they were hung up, and
they would be taken down just before their death and quartered (cut into four
pieces) so that the pain would kill them, a horrible way to die.