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Slaves and people who were suspected of going against rules were given terrible executional punishments during the Medieval Age. These punishments were meted out to a slave whether guilty or not. Torturing which was often carried out along with these punishments varied based on the offense of the accused but were all terrible.
Hanging, crucifixion, disembowelment, and burning were among many of these punishment of death’s. In most cases, inmates were tortured to extract information, which further ended up working since the sufferer’s wanted to escape suffering for a long period of time. Pressing was another method used in carrying out these acts of torture and it began in the Middle Ages.
Huge objects, generally rocks, were placed on top of the living person until they surrendered and confessed. In most cases though, these victims died due to massive weights placed on them prior to filing an appeal or making a confession. In 1586, Margaret Clitherow was among the first people to die from pressing.
She was accused of practicing Catholicism and was even discovered to be hiding priest’s. She was tortured because she refused to submit a confession of truth or falsity and was restrained by cords linked to her legs and arms which were extended.
Above her, a door was raised and additional loads were gradually heaped upon her. Margaret suffocated slowly but surely and still refused to plead guilty.
She was crushed to death because more heaps were placed on her, weighing about three hundred and sixty kilogrammes of load. The second well-known case of pressing was that of Giles Corey, who died in 1692. He was convicted of practicing witchcraft with his family and even though he confessed not guilty, he was forcefully placed naked with a plank covering his body and his torture went on for two days.
He was repeatedly asked to confess and each time his reply was “additional load”. In the end, he was trampled to death. Even though pressing was a terrible form of punishment, it was legalized in Europe during the Medieval Ages until it became extreme in 1772 and was banned by the British parliament.
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