Confinement: Corporal And Capital Punishment In The United States

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It was not until the 1800’s that the United States regularly used confinement for punishment (Bohm & Haley, 2011). Before that time, punishment included some pretty cruel and harsh tactics (Bohm & Haley, 2011). These methods were intentional, to embarrass the wrongdoer, and conducted in public to serve as a deterrent from others committing crime. Fines and seizing property were common punishments prior to confinement. However, capital and corporal punishments were delivered in some violent methods (Bohm & Haley, 2011). “Some popular methods of corporal and capital punishment were beheading, stoning, hanging, crucifixion, boiling and burning, flogging, branding, and placement in the stocks or pillory” (Bohm & Haley, 2011, p. 356). Banishment

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