This was a key attitude behind capital and corporal punishment from the 16th to the 19th centuries ... most of the period before the 19th century. Serious crimes in Tudor and Stuart times were ...

In the face of a rising crime rate, attitudes to punishment in the 16th and 17th centuries were ... throughout most of the period before the 19th century. Serious crimes in Tudor and Stuart ...

The first death sentence historically recorded occurred in 16th Century BC Egypt where the ... freemen and slaves and was punishment for crimes such as the publication of libels and insulting ...