Punishment

• What where punishments used as?

  Deterence or Retribution
• Burning at the stake

  Punishment for Heresy and Witchcraft
• What was Recanting?

  To avoid burning at the stake they changed their religious beliefs
• What was Excommunication?

  Exclusion of someone from participating in Chrisitan Church
• What punishments continued

  Hung Drawn and Quatering

  Burning at the stake

  Corporal Punishment

  Capital Punishment
• What were Bridewells?

  Early Form of Prisons

  Opened 1556

  Made to do hard labour to pay for upkeep
• What was the Bloody Code

  Crimes punishable by death

  Pardons could be received from previous Good Character

  Pregnant Women could 'Plead for Belly'

  Even for Petty crimes

  17th century around 50 crimes
• What was transportation?

  Transportation of Criminals to North America as Punishment

  Around 50k to 80k people transported by 1770

  Served 14 years tough manual labour

  7 years for lesser crimes

  Most convicts never came back