In medieval France, a pig that killed a person could face arrest, imprisonment and a public execution. That is what happened ...

Hanging was a common medieval execution, but for certain criminals, punishment did not end with death. After execution, bodies were sometimes placed in iron cages known as gibbets and displayed in ...

In 1991, the remains of a woman were discovered on the early medieval foreshore of the Thames River. The skeletal remains were moved to the London Museum, where they were curated. However, the ...

A woman was tortured for days, killed and then put on display at the side of the river Thames in central London around 1200 years ago. The case is thought to be one of the only examples of a judicial ...

Medieval torture was used both to extract confessions and to punish the convicted prior to execution. Torturers (who were ...