When in England did Kings and Queens stop being able to behead people?/?
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After the Manga Carta was signed
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Capital punishment was recentlyreinstated and applies to those convicted of murder, distribution of drugs and endangering national security,  The manner of execution is by hanging.  See Article 12 of Iraqi Law #10.
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King. Before the Magna Carta screwed it all up. :)
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Upto early 20th century the dress of the traditional German Executioners or "henkers" were tail-coat and top hat, with white gloves\nin their hand. You can see an image of an 20th century German\nexecutioner in google image--keyword(das beil von wandsbek).\nwe know the mediaval dress was some kinda hood and gown.\nWhat was the traditional dress of Swedish,Danish and Norwegian\nexecutioners in the late 19th and early 20th century?  I am guessing.\nThey used judicial beheading in France till 1977. I think the Westerners  were much more interested in this gross kind of method.\nIn the history of the world the CHRISTIANS were the most fanatic and blood thirsty race.They killed(or are directly responsible) more human beings in last 100 years than others killed in last 1000 years. Think about the inquisition,witch hunting,drawing and quartering of people,massacres of catholics,huegnots,jews. Even the crusaders ate human flesh during their capture of Jerusalem. If their act is Christian then yes\nthose people who are beheading today(with the reason that their\nland have been occupied) are more justifiably doing the right thing.\nTIT FOR TAT.
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Depends on the Church.  Even in those days, there were people with open minds who were drawn together, but if you were not in the majority religion of the time and place you lived in and you were vocal about your dissention, you could have been imprisoned, tortured and even put to death.\n\nYou asked if 400 years ago if you could have been imprisoned.  Well, the Spanish Inquisition was only 600 years ago and many people died.  Read more about it at the first link below: \n\n400 years ago was 1606 and in those days they were still burning, drowning and hanging witches in a number of countries. In Catalonia, more than 300 witches hanged between 1616 and 1619.  (See second link)\n\nSo, speaking out against the current organized religion of the area could get you tossed in with others.
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The head of state in Scotland is the British monarch, currently Queen Elizabeth II (since 1952).\n\nThe Kingdom of Scotland ceased to be an independent state on 1 May 1707.\n\nIn 1603, James VI of Scotland inherited the English throne upon the death of Elizabeth I. From then until 1707, England, Scotland and Ireland had shared monarchs.\n\nIn 1707, the Act of Union merged the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain.\n\nUnder a system of devolution (or home rule) adopted in the late 1990s two constitutent countries within the United Kingdom, Scotland and Wales, voted for limited self-government, subject to the ability of the UK Parliament in Westminster, nominally at will, to amend, change, broaden or abolish the national governmental systems. As such the Scottish Parliament is not de jure sovereign. However, it is thought unlikely that any UK parliament would try to unilaterally abolish the devolved parliament and government without consultation via a referendum with the voters of the constituent country.\n\nThe Presiding Officer (Oifigear-Riaghlaidh in Scots Gaelic) is the Speaker, the person elected by the Members of the Scottish Parliament to chair their meetings. He (or she) also heads the Corporate Body of the Scottish Parliament and as such is viewed as a figurehead for the entire organisation. Two deputy presiding officers are elected to help fulfil the role.\n\nThe first person to hold the position was David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood, appointed in 1999.\n\nList of Presiding Officers\nDavid Steel, Baron Steel of Aikwood 1999-2003 \nGeorge Reid 2003-present
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"In 1605 a group angry Catholics in England plotted to kill King James I. Believing him to be tyrannical for upholding the recently deceased Queen Elizabeth I's anti-Catholic legislation, they planned to blow up Parliament on the day it opened. \n\nThe plot failed and the schemers were executed. However, what resulted from this attempted assassination of the king was extreme unrest among the citizens of England. Treason became something tangible. \n\nCould anyone be trusted? Could the king be trusted? Partially in response to this political intrigue, around 1606 Shakespeare wrote one of his bloodiest tragedies, Macbeth, to be performed at the court of King James I."
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When our ancestors lived under the rule of royality ,they had no rights .\nThey were to praise the king and queen ,not question their authority or refuse to pay unfair taxes.\nWhen they left England they came with the idea on how not to live .\nThey set up a government accordingly.
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Edward I (June 17, 1239–July 7, 1307), popularly known as "Longshanks" because of his 6 foot 2 inch (1.88 m) frame and the "Hammer of the Scots" (his tombstone, in Latin, read, Hic est Edwardvs Primus Scottorum Malleus, "Here lies Edward I, Hammer of the Scots"), achieved fame as the monarch who conquered Wales and who kept Scotland under English domination during his lifetime. He reigned from 1272 to 1307, ascending the throne of England on November 21, 1272 after the death of his father, King Henry III of England. His mother was Queen consort Eleanor of Provence
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King George VI\nhttp://www.royal.gov.uk/OutPut/Page147.asp
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Yes, the Last Supper was held on Friday + it is said that said that Adam and Eve were driven out of the Paradise on Friday + in Britain, executions were held on the 13th of each month.
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The Tower of London on the River Thames in England has been the site of hundreds of executions since the 11th century when William 1st (William the Conquerer) began building his palace there. While many were executed on Tower Hill just outside the gates and in public view, the more political or those condemned of treason were taken by boat via the River Thames through Traitor's Gate to the Bloody Tower to await beheading within the castle walls. Lady Jane Gray, Anne Bolynn to name a couple. Hence if you were sent down the river, you were sentenced to death. There are probably other origins, but this might be one of the earliest.
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both allow capital punishment.  until recently both allowed for the execution of people who had committed crimes as a juvenile, i believe.
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not as many as should have been hanged....how many murders and such would not have been committed in the first place in the UK if the death sentence had not been abolished...sentencing is to lenient these days ...we have child rapists and murderers getting out after serving a few years that's not right...BRING BACK THE NOOSE
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While I did not live during those times to be able to say how they addressed each particular crime, I could only provide what I 'think' they may have done based on literary works and plays that were handed down from those times.\n\nOne means of punishment was "the stocks", where a person was confined so that they could be seen (and perhaps) ridiculed by others.  From literature, such as "The Scarlett Letter", it appears that the puritans, who have put people to death for crimes they considered extremely severe (in order to root out evil, as it seems to me), appeared to be more inclined to find a way to publically ridicule the people that committed lesser infractions.  Sometimes they 'branded' people or made them somehow identifiable as persons who did not follow a strict "moral" code.\n\nWhile they seemed to be their own "jury of their peers", they probably didn't have the best means of punishment, espeically in cases where those doling such out were very superstitious.
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Might be helpful to include the country next time , this is all US information..... Here is some research with links " Get to work and stop reading questions" LOL\n\n\n1) Check out their "History of the Death Penalty "section\n2) United States Courts on the death penalty\n3)Victims and the death penalty\n4)Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of execution have included such practices as crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, impaling, and beheading. Today capital punishment is typically accomplished by lethal gas or injection, electrocution, hanging, or shooting.\n5)History of the death penalty ---Plus a chart chronicles the United State's use of the death penalty over the past four centuries.
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Catherine of Aragon (divorced then secretly poisoned) had Mary\nAnne Boelyn (beheaded... believed to have been a witch) mother of Elizabeth\nJane Seymour (Died two weeks after giving birth to Edward)\nAnne of Cleves (Divorced)\nKathryn Howard (Had affairs, was beheaded)\nKatherine Parr (Was married to Henry when he died, went on to marry again)