Answers to "CRIME AND PUNISHMENT" quiz

1. Imprisoning people by their ankles.
2. The structure structure from which criminals were hanged.
3. They were sent overseas as a punishment, often to Australia.
4. An instrument of torture where people were stretched.
5. he was hanged, drawn, and quartered.
6. Yes.
7. A human-shaped box with spikes on the inside. The victim was shut in it and impaled.
8. The cat o' nine tails was a type of whip. It was much used in ships and kept in a sack.
9. She was beheaded.
10. They tried to hang him three times, but the equipment would not work. His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
11. They were 'pressed' by being placed on a wooden board on which weights were piled.
12. Suspected witches were tied to it and ducked in water. If they sank they were regarded as innocent.
13. Witchfinder General.
14. Women who sat knitting beside guillotine.
15. He was hanged.
16. The Inquisition.
17. A notoriously tough US prison.
18. The richardsons.
19. Tax Evasions.
20. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

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