Capital Punishment in the 1700s: Women Burned at the Stake

By Thomas Jay Kemp on May 17, 2013

If you committed murder in 1755 you were dealt with severely. However, the punishment for the crime was not always the same for a man as it was for a woman. In this article from an old 1700s newspaper, we learn that a man and a woman servant were found guilty of the murder... (Read More)