Catholic Fifth Punishment

Punishments were horrid during the Renaissance, so beware, if you are a scaredy cat stop right here- or get ready to scream from disgust, fear, or just because you feel like it. During the Renaissance, punishments had some sort of alliance to the crime. For example, according to Torture and Punishment, “The punishment for poisoning during this period was to be boiled to death. Mutilation and branding were also common. People often had their right hand cut off if they were caught stealing, and on certain occasions eyes were plucked out with hot pinchers and fingers were torn off.” If you can’t see the relation between these punishments, poisoning may feel like you’re burning, or you are choking. Therefore, boiling would be perfect (you are both

Having extreme, agonizing, punishments was not out of the ordinary during the 17th century. The punishments and crimes were very unsystematic, and often times very foul. There were punishments that were as minor as carting,and there were punishments as severe as the death penalty.Throughout the 17th century there were a variety of punishments for different crimes that were commited.

The fall of the Roman Empire marked the Middle Ages from 500ce to 1500ce which brought with it new ideas and systems. As medieval society developed, changes and consistencies occurred in law and order. In particular, continuity and change occurred in punishments, trial procedures, and court systems.

Punishments have many different forms. Probation, community service, and incarceration are a few types of punishment. As with everything, forms of punishment have evolved over time. Most of today’s types of criminal punishment differ from those used centuries ago. In fact, most all of those are now nonexistent.

Even during the Early church, when death was much more common, some Catholics fought against the death penalty; one such example the Athenagoras of Athens written in 133 A.D claims “we cannot endure even to see a man put to death, though justly. . . . We, deeming that to see a man put to death is much the same as killing him, have abjured such spectacles. How, then, when we do not even look on, lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put a man to death?.” However, many Catholic leaders have supported the death penalty, St. Thomas Aquinas himself stated “The death penalty was not merely permitted by God: for certain crimes it was required by God.” Nevertheless, over the years the Church has become more and more uncompromising in its beliefs against the Death Penalty. Starting with Pope John Paul II a Catholic Pope who served from the late 70’s to early 2000’s creating the Evangelium Vitae which asserts ¨that [the state] ought not go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words, when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society. Today however, as a result of steady improvements in the organization of the penal system, such cases are very rare, if not practically non-existent.¨ In this doctrine, Pope John Paul II clearly and definitively makes the Catholic Church’s negative response

The medieval ages had very different methods of crime and punishment they were a lot more brutal and many punishments for the crimes where causes of death for many people who weren’t even guilty. Even very small crimes like gossiping in medieval times had very brutal punishments. So make sure you never even gossip. Some of the simplest crimes would end in the most brutal way such as Theft, Hersey (thinking or saying something agents the church), Gossiping, Treason (plotting against or planning to over throw or kill the monarchy). The punishment well they are like something out of your nightmares gossiping: You would have to wear a scold's bridle, which would sometimes cut you if you tried to talk or ‘gossip’. Theft:

Religion plays a big role in some people 's lives and can influence their opinion on capital punishment. In the U.S. the two largest religions are Christianity and Judaism, within both of those religions some people are for capital punishment and some are against capital punishment. Several christian groups in the late 1970s formalized their religious and moral reasons against the imposition of the death penalty. “Among them was, capital punishment: violated the command by Jesus to employ the ethic of love, perpetuated the evil of retaliation, ignored the guilt that the society may have had in the causation of the crime, and prevented the possibility of any kind of rehabilitation of the criminal” (Flamehorse).

Two contemporary issues illustrate the Divine Command Theory: capital punishment and abortion. The Divine Command Theory clearly links moral choices to religion. Sacred texts from all Abrahamic religions include a prohibition against murder. For example, the Ten Commandments, which play a fundamental role in both Christianity and Judaism, states in The Sixth Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.” Similarly, the Qur’an references Allah’s prohibition of killing multiple times; for example, it states that: “If anyone has killed one person it is as if he had killed the whole mankind” (5:32). In essence, God commands that all murder is wrong. The Divine Command Theory asserts that the word of God, or any other supreme being, is absolute. Effectively, because God deems that murder is wrong, then according to the Divine Command Theory,

From the beginnings of civilization through the Post-Classical Period, many forms of governments emerged that developed many similarities and differences including similarities in criminal law and differences differences in human punishment.

Judicial death for the purpose of maintaining justice or righteousness is well established in human history. However, the rise of death penalty executions in the United States against a backdrop of liberalism has triggered protests from various anti-capital punishment factions. Often shouting the loudest are liberal religionists and clergy who erroneously claim to speak for God. These folks are grossly confused and seriously wrong." For serious criminals this wouldn't be an immoral action because they have done the wrong thing which is immoral from murder to

The Sixth Commandment, Though Shall Not Kill, is referred to not committing murder. Differentially, the killing of the condemns life is used for social order with the thought of no cruel and unusual punishments being applied. Unlike humans having the power, the justice system of a state is the one in control and implementing the death penalty. When there's no harsh punishment for the malefaction , justice is deficient. Koch notes, "When we protect guilty lives, we give up innocent lives in exchange"(579).

Although traditionally also a supporter of capital punishment, the Roman Catholic Church now oppose the death penalty. In addition, most Protestant denominations, including Baptists, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, and the United Church of Christ, oppose the death penalty. During the 1960s, religious activists worked to abolish the death penalty, and continue to do so today.

During the Middle Ages, there were different kinds of punishments that were used as a solution to crimes that were being committed from theft to adultery. The three main types of punishment used in the medieval times, were trial by ordeal, trial by jury and trial by combat. Some of these punishments were unfair because sometimes, the accused wouldn’t get punished, but the innocent would. The most injustice punishment would be trial by ordeal.

In any society, laws and punishments are what kept the people from being chaotic. The puritans had many strict laws and very harsh punishments. Along with this, William Bradford stated:

Speaking on the virtual impossibility and implausibility of negation and reversal of karmic reaction triggered by the five gravely sinful acts, discussed in verse thirty-nine of this composition, even through religious rituals and meritorious acts, the composer reminds the faithful that the karmic retribution for these gravely sinful acts, ordained in the spiritual realm, is binding, rigid and immutable.