Cruel and Evil Punishment

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During the Middle Ages, punishment was the solution to every criminal or social offense ranging from stealing to adultery to heresy. All these areas of medieval punishment had there own means of justice, however the most interesting and most controversial would have to be, the use of torture. Torture is the use of physical or mental pain to obtain information, to punish a person, or to control the members of a group to which the …

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…crime. If humiliation was considered an effective punishment today instead of being sent to jail, crime rates would decrease. The affect of humiliation on a person is significantly high. California's budgets would lower because taxpayer's money could be saved on. America should consider masks and hoods for punishment so safety would increase. Seeing a mask on a criminal is a warning of what could happen. Public Humiliation as a punishment would better fit our society.