South Carolina is preparing this week to execute a man by firing squad, a capital punishment method that hasn’t been used in ...

This was a key attitude behind capital and corporal punishment from the 16th to the 19th centuries and led to different punishments for different types of crime. All punishments gave retribution ...

There were different punishments for different types of crime ... Serious crimes in Tudor and Stuart times resulted in capital punishment. The most common method of execution was by hanging.