Stories about crime and punishment — The Prison Gate

The guillotine made capital punishment less painful

The guillotine made capital punishment less painful

How the Prison Gate inspired Coornhert to write his book Boeventucht

How the Prison Gate inspired Coornhert to write his book Boeventucht

Why Catharina le Chasseur was forced to drink herself to death

Why Catharina le Chasseur was forced to drink herself to death

Prison gate: from entrance gate to National Museum

How the Prison Gate grew from being an entrance gate into a prison, and later a national museum

Why torture devices are no longer used

Villains are people, too: why criminal law became more humane over the centuries

Punishments were truly horrible in the Middle Ages

How humiliation, torture and death were used for centuries to punish people

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