 | Henry Charles Lea - Inquisition - 1887 - 644 pages
...penalty of both murder and arson was breaking on the wheel. In France women were customarily burned or buried alive for simple felonies, and Jews were hung...criminal code of Charles V., issued in 1530, is a hideous catalogue of blinding, mutilation, tearing with hot pincers, burning alive, and breaking on the wheel.... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - Inquisition - 1887 - 616 pages
...penalty of both murder and arson was breaking on the wheel. In France women were customarily burned or buried alive for simple felonies, and Jews were hung...lingering torture for criminals of all descriptions. The Caroling or criminal code of Charles V., issued in 1530, is a hideous catalogue of blinding, mutilation,... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - Church history - 1887
...penalty of both murder and arson was breaking on the wheel. In France women were customarily burned or buried alive for simple felonies, and Jews •were...two savage dogs, while men were boiled to death for coming. In Milan Italian ingenuity exhausted itself in devising deaths of lingering torture for criminals... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - Christian sociology - 1896 - 398 pages
...Inquisition, ip 234 f. pieces of wood and burn her to death, while each contributes a fine besides. The Carolina, or criminal code of Charles V., issued in 1530, is a hideous catalogue of blinding, mutilation, tearing with hot pincers, burning alive, and breaking on the wheel.... | |
 | Lyman Abbott - Christian sociology - 1896 - 396 pages
...Inquisition, ip 234 f. pieces of wood and burn her to death, while each contributes a fine besides. The Carolina, or criminal code of Charles V., issued in 1530, is a hideous catalogue of blinding, mutilation, tearing with hot pincers, burning alive, and breaking on the wheel.... | |
 | Washington Gladden - Christian sociology - 1902 - 262 pages
...females each bring three pieces of wood and burn her to death, while each contributes a fine besides. The Carolina, or criminal code of Charles V., issued in 1530, is a hideous catalogue of blinding, mutilation, tearing with hot pincers, burning alive, and breaking on the wheel.... | |
 | Henry Charles Lea - Church history - 1922 - 612 pages
...penalty of both murder and arson was breaking on the wheel. In France women were customarily burned or buried alive for simple felonies, and Jews were hung...criminal code of Charles V., issued in 1530, is a hideous catalogue of blinding, mutilation, tearing with hot pincers, burning alive, and breaking on the wheel.... | |
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... loaf of bread or a pot of wine by a servant from his master was punished by the loss of a limb. In Frisia arson committed at night was visited with burning alive; and, by the old German law, the penalty of both murder and arson was breaking on the... 