Crimes of the Nobility were much more extreme and graphic, being …show more content…
People were tortured to death for the simplest, almost harmless crimes, such as stealing food because they were in poverty. Mainly crimes of murder were malicious and unprovoked. Punishment if the crime was considered worth more and cost more to fix, than they would be sentenced to creative forms of death and torture. Queen Elizabeth used torture more than other monarch, especially in cases of treason, and she held no limit to the social class of people inflicted with it. Simple petty theft would cause the perpetrator burning, beating, and extreme cutting to the body to have enough considered “punishment”. One of the most common ways of death was being drawn and quartered, which was having each of your limbs tied to a horse and then having the horses be whipped so they would gallop as fast as they could in the other direction. Seeing as how this would turn out, the person would most likely have been ripped apart. Another common way was being beheaded by a guillotine. A guillotine was a large hollow frame with a thin blade at the top which would be dropped upon someone's