The Medieval period of the Middle Ages was violent, and blood thirsty. In these barbarous times the cruel and pitiless torturers were induced to inflict the horrors of tortures. The torture was sometimes followed by execution including being Burned at the Stake. Death by fire was probably the most excruciating form of execution. Torture and execution methods, devices and instruments were used to inflict the deliberate, systematic, cruel and wanton infliction of physical and mental suffering. There were no laws or rules to protect the treatment of prisoners who faced executions such as being Burned at the Stake.
Crimes which warranted the use of / Method of inflicting the Burned at the Stake
Different types of torture and execution methods were used depending on the victim's crime and social status. The punishment by fire was always inflicted in cases of heresy, or blasphemy. In France, in the beginning of the fourteenth century, fifty-nine Templars were burned at the same time for the crimes of heresy and witchcraft. And three years later, on the 18th March, 1314, Jacques Molay, and a few other dignitaries of the Order of the Templars, also perished in the flames at the extremity of the island of Notre Dame.
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