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Forgotten Tortures and Ancient Penalties
Explore a challenging crossword featuring infamous historical punishments and methods of justice from the past.
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Across
  • 1. Severe whipping as corporal punishment
  • 2. Wooden framework used to publicly expose offenders' heads and hands
  • 6. Medieval torture device shaped like a sarcophagus with spikes
  • 9. Dark prison cell used for long-term confinement
  • 11. Structure for hanging condemned criminals
  • 13. Wooden frame locking feet, often used for public humiliation
  • 14. Marked with a hot iron as a form of punishment
  • 16. A metal muzzle used to punish speech
Down
  • 3. Staring in public as a form of social punishment
  • 4. Punishment involving lashes delivered by a whip
  • 5. Post used to tie criminals for flogging
  • 7. Medieval rack stretching body in torture
  • 8. Divided into four parts as a gruesome execution method
  • 10. Punishment for nagging women, often via branks or stocks
  • 12. To confine someone in jail or prison
  • 15. Infliction of pain to extract information or punishment
  • 17. Part of 'hanged, drawn, and quartered'—to drag a prisoner
  • 18. Forcing someone to live away from their homeland

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