1500

Crime & Punishment

Crime & Punishment Was...

Elizabethan Era

Additional Forms Of Elizabethan Executions included...

The lifetime of Elizabeth was filled with danger. As a resultb, most people were tamed and afraid. Crimes were low in number.

• Different types of torture were used depending on the victims crime and social statues. Punishments were violent, cruel, and vile.

• There were many methods of torture which were practiced during the Elizabethan Era. Torture in the 1500's-1600's was systematic, cruel and inflicted physical and mental suffering. Devices and tools were used to inflict unbearable agony on a victim.

Fun Facts

Hanging

Rat Torture

• .Villagers were considered twisted individuals because of the crowds of people that gathered for the public punishments and executions.
• The Elizabethan Period Lasted 45 Years
• Shakespeare Published His First Play in the Elizabethan Era
• Nobody Drank Water in Elizabethan England
• England Became the Supreme Naval Power of the World
• There Was No Paper Money in the Elizabethan Era

• Private executions of Tower of London prisoners were conducted behind the walls of the Tower if the execution was considered too politically sensitive to carry out in open view. This especially applied to the executions of women.

Waterboarding

Works Cited

• http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Torturepun.html
• http://www2.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Bloodypainful.html
• http://www.ehow.com/list_7732782_ten-elizabethan-times.html
• http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/elizabethan-tortures.htm

The public executions and tortures were always done at Tower Hill for hundreds to see. Some of the prisoners who were killed by public executions on Tower Hill suffered the most atrocious and painful deaths.

1600

1500

Elizabethan Executions

Famous Executions At The Tower Of London

Torture Was Seen As....

Execution By Quartering

The Rack Torture

Queen Ann Boleyn

• A machine consisting of a rectangular wooden frame. A roller was at each end. Victims feet were tied at the bottom and wrist tied to the top. The rollers at either end of the frame were turned, pulling the body in opposite directions. Victims got stretched causing pain.

• A rope was attached to each leg from the foot to the knee, and around each arm from the wrist to the elbow.The ropes were tied to bars which were tied to horses. Horses would slowly walk opposite sides. Hot lead, water or oil would be poured on the victim.

• A way to prove justice and obtain testimonies. It was also used to spill out confessions from suspects for use in legal trials

Execution by beheading

Lady Jane Grey

The Scavengers Daughter

• Consists of a hoop of iron with a hinge in the middle.
• Victim was forced to crouch on one half of the hoop while the other half was placed over his back
• Torture would use a screw to tighten the hinge, crushing the victems further into his crouch.
• Eventually, ribs/breastbone would crack and the spine could be dislocated.

Execution by beheading