Torture and Execution of the Renaissance
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Today it is considered curl and unusual to torture people. In the 1500's the courts of England use many different ways of torturing criminals. The only problem with this was the fact that many of them would die before the torturing got good. So the courts and towns people came up with new ways of torture. Just some of these ways were. The pillory, the riding of the wooden horse, laying by the heels in the bilboes, whipping of the Cart's Tayle, the branks, the ducking-stool, the stocks, the bastinado, boiling/roasting, the boots, burning, crucifixion, the garotte, impalement, the iron maiden, knotting, mastectomy, the pear, pressing, the rack, scalding, the scold's bridle, squassation, stoning, strangulation, the strappado, tormentum insomniae, the turcas, the wheel, and the witch's cradle. These were just some of the many ways of torture during those incredible times. The people of this time made a Festival out of it in a way. The more torture and drama of the punishment the better.
The explanation of these torture techniques is gruesome...