2006-08-26 17:23:01 · 7 answers · asked by Nick 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Any crime that I was forced to commit in order to protect my family.
2006-08-26 17:31:56 · answer #1 · answered by justme 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe King George #? (sorry, not 100% here) had approximately 8 of his wives beheaded & I've always assumed by guillotine. He did this just because they did not give him sons. Basically each time he had one wife beheaded, he re-married & then when that wife did not produce a son, she was beheaded. Little did he know that HE was the reason for the lack of male children! I also believe I was taught in school that one could be sentenced to the guillotine for treason. Hope this helps.
2006-08-27 00:32:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You were guillotined if you didn't pay your land taxes to your king when his men came around to collect (you were hauled off to the gallows and guillotined the next day; if you got caught stealing; if you did it with another man's wife; if you worked (grew crops) on more land than the king alotted to you; claimed land (squatting, which was very much hated by landlords; this is where the term landlord came from, back in the medieval days); you were lodging anyone from enemy land or kingdoms.
2006-08-27 00:41:10 · answer #3 · answered by vortexx 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i know that when the king was tired of you as a wife you oculd be beheaded and being of the "wrong" religion would get you killed murdering at one point in time "witchcraft" and not paying taxes taking up too much land stupid stuff like that and it probably depending on the king and or queen ya know he might wanna behead you for stealign from his garden or for being in the wrong place at the wrong time there wasnt really a set list of things that got you beheaded ya know what i mean there were things that would get you beheaded for sure which i have listed but then petty things were all up to wether or not the king was in a bad mood=) ya know
2006-08-27 00:51:20 · answer #4 · answered by anne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
doing anything the monarch did not approve of. you could probably breathe in their direction and it was off with your head. but on a more helpful note, murder, being accused of being a witch(stupid reason #1) possibly even stealing a piece of fruit(definately stupid reason also), anything is possible with decaputation as a punishment, when it was legal of course.
i hope this helps.
2006-08-27 00:34:02 · answer #5 · answered by Ravenfire 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Being in the royal family in France, for one.
2006-08-27 00:28:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
these days none, exicution by gillotine has been outlawed in western countries since the 1950's.
2006-08-27 00:52:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋