Thursday, April 11, 2013

Crime and Punishment

In Romeo and Juliet, the punishment for inciting a riot is death. The Capulet and Montague clans have been warned to not instigate any violent arguments. Please research the justice system and possible punishment during the Elizabethan period and post your findings.

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  1. Crimes they committed in tat time to get the death penalty was
    Theft
    Murder
    Spying
    Rebellion
    Alchemy
    Witchcraft

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    1. People that proclaimed and did things with metal others couldnt

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  3. Meleek west and Enrique -Many punishments and executions were witnessed by many hundreds of people.
    -http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-crime-and-punishment.htm

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  4. They used to executed and people would go there for a night out , if they were bored.

    ~ Valerie Delarosa and Heaven Linell c:

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  5. Upper class gets there head cut off and lower class gets burned, hanging, whipping, branding, pressing, ducking stool, the wheel, and many other things..... Francisco &&& Christian.........

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  6. "The greatest and most grievous punishment used in England for such as offend against the State is drawing from the prison to the place of execution upon an hurdle or sled, where they are hanged till they be half dead, and then taken down, and quartered alive; after that, their members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and thrown into a fire, provided near hand and within their own sight, even for the same purpose."

    http://www.william-shakespeare.info/elizabethan-crime-punishment.htm

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  7. Punishments for crimes were cruel and violent. They had public executions where hundreds of people would watch.During that era if you committed a crime you will be stretched,burned,beating the body,or be suffocated itch water.(karissa and Jessica)

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  8. They would torture people for a lot of the crimes.

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  9. "They are hanged till they be half dead,and then taken down, their members and bowels are cut from their bodies,and thrown in the fire. By: Narendya Bailey

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    1. "Other punishment included death by burning and beheading. Being burnt at the stake was a punishment which was used during the reign of 'Bloody Mary' - Queen Elizabeth's elder sister. Yet another terrible death. Executioners sometimes showed mercy to their victims by placing gunpowder at the base of the stake which helped the victims to a swifter, and less painful, death." If you we're being punished they would do horrific things to you . When people got beheaded or tortured it was public . By:Leilani Rivera

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  10. Punshement for the low class was hanging burning and whipping, the wheel and more. The people also boil in oil water or lead for there punshement

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  11. Crimes an punishments if the judge .will find it guilty they would hang you. An then cut your body up in to pieces . An throw it in the fire. - Sonia Zamudio

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    1. Crime and Punishment if the judge will find it guilty they would hang you and then cut parts of you and they burn the pieces in front of everyone.- Sonia Zamudio

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  12. "Many crimes committed by commoners were through sheer desperation and abrect poverty"There were punishments for spying rebelling murder witchcraft theft poaching and begging.

    By Reynaldo zarate
    &&& Joselyn Rodriguez

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  13. Punishments were witnessed by a lot of people . All crimes that are committed get the death penalty .

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  14. In Elizabethan Era people were split into to class' The Upper Class and Nobility. It depends on what class your in because the punishments are different . If a women committed a crime she would not escape death as punishment.


    -Cristina & Alicia x.

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  15. Sometimes people got accused of doing stuff they didn't do ,and if they get accused its enough to get them torchered even if it wasn't them. And if they go to court that wouldn't really help much.

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  16. Crime and Punishment was not a happy subject in the Elizabethan Era. Their was no trial, just death. They belived in punishment: burning to death, beheading, whipping,the wheel, hanging, and branding.

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  17. Ripping out teeth / nails

    Beating

    Blinding

    Boiling

    Bone breaking

    Branding and Burning

    Castration

    Choking

    Cutting

    Disfigurement

    Dislocation

    Drowning

    Flagellation, whipping and beating

    Flaying

    Roasting

    Genital mutilation

    Limb/finger removal

    Starvation

    Tongue removal

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    1. All you did was cut and paste.... Put in your own words

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  18. The people who committed crimes would be tortured most crimes committed were high treason and blasphemy

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  19. The upper class would never get killed it was mostly the lower people got tourchered

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  20. If you did one crime you would be tortured. People were hung,burned,whipped, and branded.

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  21. During the Elizabethan times people who did something wrong would not just be sent to jail like today's world. They would be killed by being tortured honorably by ether dissecting them of choping their heads off. Daniel Kittinger, Anastacio Fuerte

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  22. Back in the Elizabethan Era they're punishments were crucial. For the lower classes there would be: Hanging, burning, whipping, cutting of various items of the anatomy such as hands ears legs etc, and being boiled in oil.

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  23. Stealing was a capital crime, one of the most common crimes committed in London during the Elizabethan Age was "cutpursing". Cutpursing Means: A thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places.

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  24. Traitors heads were placed on stakes and displayed in public. Some punishments were burning & beheading
    "they are hanged till they be half dead, and then taken down, and quartered alive; after that, their members and bowels are cut from their bodies, and thrown into a fire, provided near hand and within their own sight, even for the same purpose."
    Alexandra y Nathaniel Dominguez y Jose Fierro (:

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  25. There are many painful methods for a punishments for the nobles the rack, the iron maiden, scavengers daughter, the collar, and branding irons. For the commoners they had the most excruciating pain they were hanged, burned, pressing, the wheel, and the ducking tool.
    Stephanie Cruz & Justin Vargas

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  26. Allan & Alberto
    Their was choking,drowning,cutting,eating,feeding&beating

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  27. During the Elizabethan era people were punished for every little thing and tortured in several ways such as: Hanging, Burning ,Whipping, Branding, Pressing.

    Jazmine perez & Marleene Carlos

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  28. Sometimes if the person who committed a crime will kill themselves before the officers will get to them. If some one is committed of stealing they will sometimes be burned with a hot iron or somehow be marked of being a thief.

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  29. citzens would get burned hanged and more. people would get the wheel and boiling in oil water or lead and takeing bird eggs was consider a crime

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