England Torture

In Shakespere's England, torture was the punishment that was given to people who broke the laws. The torture the England government had used was widely ranged from public shame to the most brutal and gruesome torture methods. The government of England used torture as punishment to intimidate and scare anyone who had ideas of commiting crimes. A few torture methods that were used were The Iron Maidan, The Ducking Stool, The French Rack, and the worst of all, being drawn and quartered. The Iron Maidan, a tomb looking machine, was lined with long spikes inside on its walls and the victims were put in the and the doors of the machine would shut. Thus, the sharp spikes would impail the victims body.

I feel that capital and corporal punishment does work. In England they used this punishment to scare ppeople and it did work. For example, if 50 people were going to rob a store and the non-capital punishment was 5 years in jail, all 50 peopple might do it compared to the capital punishment was going to be torture, then only 30 people might commit this crime. Therefore capital and corporal punishment does work to an extent. People aren't afraid of doing jail time, but when they think of the torture they would have to go through for commiting a crime they might think twice before they commit that crime.