The Bloody Code

Criminal Records Podcast by Demetria Spinrad and Isaac Meyer

Feb 8, 202401:03:21Society & Culture

Under Britain's most notorious era of criminal law, you could be sentenced to death for everything from destroying a fishpond to being a particularly malicious 7-year-old. But how many criminals actually died thanks to t...

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