Banished, beheaded, or boiled in oil
Subtitle: a hair-raising history of crime and punishment throughout the ages!
By: Neil Tonge ; illustrator, Tom Morgan-Jones
Contributors: Morgan-Jones, Tom, illustrator
Series: Awfully ancient; Awfully ancient
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781482431223; 9781482431216; 9781482431247
Subjects: Crime; Juvenile literature; History; Punishment; Criminals
Description: The history of punishing criminals is a long and gruesome one. In 620 BC, a Greek named Draco wrote a legal code that punished almost every crime with death except murder! For that, criminals were exiled. Odd facts about crime and punishment like this abound in history. Readers encounter many places and periods, from ancient China to the Victorian era, to learn all about the terrible, gross, and strange ways crimes were punished in the past.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 31) and index.
Table of contents: title: Crime and punishment; title: Chilling China; title: Gruesome Greeks; title: It's all Greek to me! A Greek trial; title: Revolting Romans; title: Awful Aztecs; title: Murderous Middle Ages; title: Curious cases of criminal creatures; title: Terrifying Tudors; title: Troubled times; title: Mechanical marvels of the modern age; title: Vengeful Victorians; title: School and punishment.