2007-10-07 15:22:46 · 7 answers · asked by Shinigami 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not until early in the Fourth Century . Constantine, the first Christian Emperor of Rome, abolished crucifixion to coincide with his Christian beliefs.
2007-10-07 15:27:31 · answer #1 · answered by Zombie Princess, (2012) 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Different societies have different methods of getting rid of unwanted citizens. The Romans used crucifixion but they weren't the only ones. It was still being used as late as the 19th century in Madagascar and probably into the 20th century in some places. After all if the USA had hanging, beheading, shooting, gassing, electrocuting and poisoning as methods of execution less than fifty years ago and they are supposed to be civilised, you can't expect less civilised countries to be so squeamish. (Beheading was on the books in Utah although the option was never used.)
2007-10-07 15:38:45 · answer #2 · answered by tentofield 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Sudan's Penal Code, based upon the government's interpretation of Shari'a, provides for execution by crucifixion and execution followed by crucifixion. The sentence has been passed as recently as 2002, when 88 people were condemned.[6]"
Such cruelty shouldn't be necessary for any government. Similarly, burning people alive is cruel and unnecessary punishment. What is the use of death by injection? Why don't they use cyanide?
The death penalty is necessary for those who take a human life. This should help them to get a better birth so that they might not live a life of crime in their next life.
If we are insensitive to the cries of the animals we slaughter, then it is likely this is contributing to our being insensitive to other human beings.
2007-10-07 17:02:40 · answer #3 · answered by devotionalservice 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When it was found out that people are not "shish-ka-bob" OR about the 16th century and the Roman Catholic persecutions of the Inquisition. Though people were not literally "crucified" they were still tied to a stake and burnt alive by, you guessed it, the faithful of Christianity.
If you are strictly set on when they abolished the use of crosses to hang people on, that went out of existence in the 6th century when mankind turned to impaling people on stakes.
2007-10-07 15:32:42 · answer #4 · answered by Theban 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Intresting. Was it Charlemagne?
2007-10-07 15:25:59 · answer #5 · answered by Chapter and Verse 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When the 8th Amendment was ratified.
2007-10-07 15:25:38 · answer #6 · answered by Skunk 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
What? Oh, scratch! What fun is that???
2007-10-07 15:26:16 · answer #7 · answered by urukorcs 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋