The stocks are a torture device that I'm sure many of you have heard of. A person's hands and feet would be trapped within the confines of the stocks themselves, and the victim would be rendered helpless. Although the stocks themselves weren't really that painful, the person would be placed in the middle of a common area where they'd be subject to public scorn. People would urinate, beat, ridicule, and sometimes even stone a person in stocks. In some cases, angry townspeople would even cut of parts off the victim, like feet and hands. Whoa!
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3 comments:
This kind of torture is truly scary. To set up a person in a way that people know that he/she has done wrong and can have wrongs done to them is kinda crazy. It gives people a license to show the dark acts they are able to inflict. Kinda crazy.
I had heard about the ridicule and the urinating, but cutting off hands and feet? That's news to me. It's unbelievable how truly mean the human race can be.
Wow! This sounds like a ruthless form of punishment. I imagine that it worked quite well though. I mean, at least there was no severe physical harm being done to the person, (Except for the cases in which the public would harm the person in the stocks). And after being publicly humiliated, I don’t imagine that a person would want to commit a crime which would earn them the stocks again.
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