Those suspected of heresy and other religious crimes received the severest punishment of all: being burned at the stake. This not only meant a gruesome death, but no less terrible was the fact that due to the total destruction of one's body, one could no longer hope to undergo resurrection.
Drawing and quartering is one of the most infamous methods of cruel and unusual punishment. It's still difficult to believe it's an actual thing that was conceived by actual humans and happened to actual unfortunate souls. The punishment was first doled out in England in the 13th century.
Punishment options included imprisonment, payment of fines or forfeiture of estate, and various corporal sanctions including whipping, stocks, pillory, branding or the removal of a body part such as a hand or foot, or capital punishment, normally by hanging, though certain crimes were punished by burning.
Heresy and blasphemy were considered to be one of the biggest crimes. Throwing criminals in prison was very common. Some prisons even had torture chambers. A lot of Kings were obsessed with their kingdom's crime reputation and were very much devoted to seizing every man who is guilty of committing a crime.
Severe historical execution methods include the breaking wheel, hanged, drawn and quartered, mazzatello, boiling to death, death by burning, execution by drowning, death by starvation, immurement, flaying, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing, execution by elephant, keelhauling, stoning, dismemberment, ...
Violence was considered a necessary part of life in the Middle Ages (about 500–1500 A.D.). People were surrounded by violence in many forms, including wars, brutal tournaments, and deadly rivalries for power and land. Graphic depictions of violent religious events, such as Christ's Crucifixion, were also common.
Flaying: Skinned Alive
Flaying—or skinning—was perhaps the most painful of all ancient world execution methods because of its slow process. The victim was first stripped, and their hands and feet bound to stop any movement.
Medieval violence was sparked by everything from social unrest and military aggression to family feuds and rowdy students... This revolt in Florence stands out because it was momentarily successful, leading to a radical regime change.
Throughout the medieval period, it was believed that the only way to keep order was to make sure that the people were scared of the punishments given for crimes committed. For this reason, all crimes from stealing to burglary of houses to murder had harsh medieval punishments.
Felony. The most serious type of crime a person can commit is termed as a felony. Felonies can often involve physical harm or an intent to cause physical harm to another person.
Death by electrocution was believed to be quick and painless. Today, after 4,300 electrocutions, death by electric chair can no longer be called an unusual punishment.
Warfare during the medieval period was incredibly ferocious. When they weren't being slaughtered by arrows raining down from the sky, soldiers were hacked or pounded to death by swords, axes and hammers.
Guilty women were often expelled from their homes, their dowries were confiscated by their husbands, or, heads shaven, they were forced to parade through the streets. The courts were also hesitant to punish men who murdered their wives' lovers (Brundage, "Sex and Canon Law," 42).
Australia uses prisons, as well as community corrections (various non-custodial punishments such as parole, probation, community service etc), When awaiting trial, prisoners may be kept in specialised remand centres or within other prisons.
Medieval Times
The Middle Ages carried on the classical idea of depression being rooted in one's disfavor with the gods, but this time the gods were those of Christianity, rather than the Greek pantheon. For clerics in Medieval Europe, melancholy was a sign that one was living sinfully and in need of repentance.
During the Middle Ages (also known as the Medieval period) public torture and execution was common throughout the United Kingdom and regarded as a socially accepted form of punishment.
Of course, the Dark Ages also refers to a less-than-heroic time in history supposedly marked by a dearth of culture and arts, a bad economy, worse living conditions and the relative absence of new technology and scientific advances.
The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution. A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is condemned and is commonly referred to as being "on death row".
Admonition (or "being admonished") is the lightest punishment under Scots law.
Lethal injection causes severe pain and severe respiratory distress with associated sensations of drowning, asphyxiation, panic, and terror in the overwhelming majority of cases, a new report from NPR found.
Widespread fear of a diverse range of dangers, imagined or factual, was a quite common experience for medieval people. Some of these collective fears still impact our modern time, such as fear of war and violence, fear of monsters and strange creatures, fear of crime and natural disasters.
With some perspective then, Medieval Europe's relationship to alcohol really isn't all that wild. Considering the tolerance they'd build over time and the low ABV, most people were probably rarely drunk.
The Most Deadly Battle In History: Stalingrad
The figures for the Battle of Stalingrad battle are shocking even by the standards of the other campaigns on this list. Running from August 23, 1942 to February 2, 1943, Stalingrad led to 633,000 battle deaths.