the courts turned to torture to elicit information. In terms of torture, women were typically excluded. Punishment and torture varied among classes. If the nobility committed a crime that had a mandatory death sentence, they were beheaded. If the lower class committed the same crime as the nobility, they endured much more gruesome punishment. Such punishments included “Hanging ,Burning, Whipping, Branding, Pressing, Ducking Stools, The Wheel, Starvation in a public place, The Gossip's Bridle or the…
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