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Poena cullei (Latin, 'penalty of the sack') [1] under Roman law was a type of death penalty imposed on a subject who had been found guilty of parricide. The punishment consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack , with an assortment of live animals including a dog, snake, monkey, and a chicken or rooster, and then being thrown into water.
Poena cullei, used during the Roman Empire. The victim was stuffed into a sack with a number of animals and thrown into a body of water. Asphyxia: Suffocation in ash. Carbon monoxide poisoning by burning coal in a sealed room. [2] Premature burial. Used for Vestal virgins who broke their vows. By strangulation. The result of short-drop hanging ...
In the second the parricidas punishment was the poena cullei. Its provisions consisted in closing the culprit murderer in a sack of ox skin and throwing him into the sea. Later it was changed to making the culprit exlege. [42] In case of non voluntary homicide it was only required the sacrifice of a goat to expiate the crime and purify the culprit.
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العربية; অসমীয়া; বাংলা; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Bosanski
The Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis (or veneficiis) [1] (The Cornelian Law against Murderers and Poisoners) was a Roman statute enacted by Lucius Cornelius Sulla in 81 BC during his dictatorship to write laws and reconstitute the state (legibus scribundis et rei publicae constituendae) [2] which aimed at the punishment of murderers, poisoners, abortionists, human sacrifice, and malign ...
Leopard attacking a criminal, Roman floor mosaic, 3rd century AD, Archaeological Museum of Tunisia. Damnatio ad bestias (Latin for "condemnation to beasts") was a form of Roman capital punishment where the condemned person was killed by wild animals, usually lions or other big cats.
The best records are from the tenure of Giovanni Battista Bugatti, the executioner of the Papal States between March 22, 1796 and August 17, 1861, who recorded the name of the condemned, the crime, and the location of the execution for each of the 516 "justices" he performed for the governments, papal or French. [1]