They raped the native women and took pleasure in maiming and brutalizing Amerindians with war dogs and instruments of torture. His compelling descriptions were supported by the writings of others, such as the Italian traveler Girolamo Benzoni. These accounts, reinforced by the gory illustrations of Theodore de Bry later in the century, led to the Black Legend, which depicted the Spanish as the scourge of whomever they encountered,”
“Magna Charta (1215) also called The Great Charter, is considered one of the most important documents in the establishment of democracy, its influence can be seen throughout the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights”(GCU Lecture, 2010, para. 2). The Magna Charta was not considered identical to the constitution, yet it did contain some criminal laws that were incorporated into the “Bill of Rights” and “The United States Constitution.” For example: “giving individuals the right to know the burdens they were charged for, the right to have attorney representing them in the court of law, being judged by peers before imprisonment, and the last the premise of innocent until being proven as guilt” (GCU Lecture, 2010, para. 2). This document contains sixty three chapters which define the “trial by jury, due process, habeas corpus, and equality under the law” (“Magna Charta,” 2005, para.
It was ment to replace blood feuds with a system sanctioned by the state. This code has a huge impact in many government systems, including the U.S. law. Hammurabi’s code had a huge impact in modern governments because it was one of the first written documents that talked about government. It shaped many governments by giving them a outline for how to write the government out. Hammurabi made the laws to keep together his kingdom but what he did had such an importance on law making today.
The Office was made to write down statutes and save them for resolving disputes. c. The council of the Areopagus had the function of watching over the laws and it administered most and the greatest of the city’s affairs, having full power to chastise and punish
Lynching From the 1880s to the 1940s, innocent people were killed, and for one main reason: their race. Some of these deaths were results to lynching. This time period unfortunately was known as “The Negro Holocaust.” There are many questions to why and how the time period acted during this gruesome time. To begin with, what is lynching? Lynching is being “put to death, especially by hanging, by mob action and without legal authority.” People were being killed without a right.
There was a leader of the slaves her name was nunu. She had a son who was considered enemy because his father was white and raped nunu. She was the one that started a group that would go out at night and try to plan a way to get out of the farm. Shola had a person that she loved his name was shango and he was against the slavery system all together. Nunu son was with the system because he was the head of all the slaves and was the one who had to punish the slaves if they got in trouble.
Government was extremely important in Confucianism. A ruler had to be good in order for his subjects to be good and obey him. Legalism focused so strongly on law breaking that there were even spies. Confucians believed history and poetry are educational resources and people can study them to further educate themselves. Confucianism was even pro social mobility if you tried and studied hard enough you could go from having a bad life to moving up in the ranks
Mr. Gilmer, the prosecutor, used Tom’s race and physical strength to imply that Tom was just another stereotypical black man who targeted a fair skinned female. Mr. Gilmer hinted that because Tom was strong and coloured, Tom would rape and beat a white woman. Not only was Tom discriminated against on the stand, but after Tom was sent to the slammer, Tom was killed and shot at multiple times after he was already dead. “ ‘Seventeen bullet holes in him. They [the police] didn’t have to shoot him that much.’ ” (235).
Slaves were also confined in a work house or house of correction for punishment. When punished for capital offence, they would usually be crucified but this was later abolished by Emperor Constantine. DIFFERENT TYPES OF PUNISHMENTS The different types of punishments inflicted among the Romans, were fines, bonds, stripes, retaliation, infamy, banishment, slavery and death. A Roman citizen could not be sentenced to death unless he was found guilty of treason. PUNISHMENT BY DEATH The Romans had many ways to inflict death as a punishment.
There were many forms of punishment for different crimes and some depending on gender. Major crimes such as murder and heresy would deserve a public execution and minor crimes like scold and theft had the accused either tortured or put in the stocks. Vagrancy: a vagrant is a person (who is usually poor) who travels or wanders around streets from place to place with no home regular work or schedule. This was considered a crime in the Middle Ages. From the 1530's this was punishable by getting whipped and in the 1540's by getting hung.