In the 18th Century BC, the Code of King Hammurabi ... During the middle ages, capital punishment was accompanied by torture. Most barons had a drowning pit as well as gallows and they were ...

One of the most significant is the attitude of judges before, during and after giving a capital punishment ... back to the early 16th to the mid-18th century and a period of time known as the ...

More and more crimes were made capital offences as new crimes developed in the 18th century, due to social and economic changes. Members of Parliament (the law makers) were all landed aristocracy ...

Until the mid-19th century ... stocks and pillories. Punishment in public continued through the 1700s, however, it gradually became less common. A Royal Commission on Capital Punishment (1864 ...