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Sep 13, 2017 · These animal trials were of two kinds: (1) secular suits against individual creatures who had maimed or killed humans; and (2) ecclesiastic cases against vermin like mice and locusts, who were excommunicated for their grain-related crimes.
Execution by elephant, or Gunga Rao, was a method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used to crush, dismember, or torture captives during public executions. The animals were trained to kill victims immediately or to torture them slowly over a prolonged period.
Feb 11, 2021 · This chapter addresses the entanglement of animal and human rights in relation to the death penalty, using case studies of animal vivisection and euthanasia. Parallels between the animal and the condemned man are widespread in both pro- and anti-death penalty...
- Katherine Ebury
- k.ebury@sheffield.ac.uk
- 2021
Aug 14, 2020 · Poena cullei, or the so-called punishment of the sack, is most commonly known as the one suffered by patricides in ancient Rome. The condemned man was sewn up in leather sackcloth with the company of four animals – a dog, a monkey, a snake and a rooster.
Damnatio ad bestias (Latin for "condemnation to beasts") was a form of Roman capital punishment where the condemned person was killed by wild animals, usually lions or other big cats. This form of execution, which first appeared during the Roman Republic around the 2nd century BC, had been part of a wider class of blood sports called Bestiarii .
Poena cullei (Latin, 'penalty of the sack') [1] under Roman law was a type of death penalty imposed on a subject who had been found guilty of patricide. The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack, with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water.
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Jan 29, 2015 · In a useful review article, the sociologists Michael Radlet and Marian Borg set out six arguments for and against the death penalty. The first is the issue of deterrence. Radlet and Borg cite a number of surveys showing that experts generally believe that the death penalty does not constitute an additional deterrent above and beyond life ...
