League_Girl wrote:
I have a feeling back in the days lot of innocent people were executed. Back then there were no fair trials and things were different then and it didn't take long to execute someone after they have committed a crime ...
Ever hear of "Trial by Ordeal"?
Wikipedia wrote:
... an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused was determined by subjecting them to an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience. Classically, the test was one of life or death and the proof of innocence was survival. In some cases, the accused was considered innocent if they escaped injury or if their injuries healed, or sometimes the reverse ... ordeal of fire typically required that the accused walk a certain distance, usually nine feet (about 3 metres), over red-hot ploughshares or holding a red-hot iron. Innocence was sometimes established by a complete lack of injury, but it was more common for the wound to be bandaged and re-examined three days later by a priest, who would pronounce that God had intervened to heal it, or that it was merely festering - in which case the suspect would be exiled or executed.
There was also Ordeal by Water (made famous by Monty Python "Does she weigh more than a duck?"), Ordeal of the Cross, Ordeal by Ingestion (Poison or an emetic), and Trial by Combat.
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11 Nov 2013, 7:48 pm
