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Old Time Death Sentences Were Crude At Best

A long time ago people used to burn a lot of women and some men at the stake because they thought they were witches. If they need something different or if they did something weird, the people were quick to blame it on witchcraft. There were some times that they would just hang them. They would also stone them. They would treat them like they were nothing, and they were very violent to them. But before they kill them, they put them in jail and they would go to court to find out what their punishment was. Back then, people got scared about a lot of things and the littlest thing that were nothing.

Sometimes kids would say that were seeing things like the devil or spirits or that they were making them do things just to make it worse. When they would burn them at the stake, they would put a whole bunch of wood around a pole with some dried weeds. Then they would tie them up to the pole with rope, and then they would throw things at them and say very nasty things to them. Then they would set the wood on fire and watch them burn to death. All they could hear was them screaming. The fire would burn until there was nothing but ashes.

When they hanged them they would hang a rope around a tree branch and tie it off. They would put a chair or put a horse under the branch were the noose was at so they could have them stand there with the rope around their neck. Then they would pull the chair or the horse out from underneath them and watch the rope break their neck. If the rope did not break their neck, they would watch them until their legs stopped kicking and they died. Sometimes their hands were tied to their back but there were other times they would tie their hands in front of them. They would fight to stay alive by grabbing the rope, but it did not work.

Other times, they would stone the people to death. It was where they would take good size stones and throw it at them. It would break the skin and make them bleed, and it killed them. If they threw it hard enough it would crack their head open, and it would break bones. They would not stop until they were dead.

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