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    Poena cullei (Latin, 'penalty of the sack') under Roman law was a type of death penalty imposed on a subject who had been found guilty of parricide. The...
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  • Parrilla (torture) Pins/needles underneath finger/toe nails Pitchcapping Poena cullei Pressure points Punching Restraint Rape Rat torture Republican marriage...
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    Patricides, who were normally drowned in a leather bag filled with snakes (poena cullei), but could be thrown to beasts if a suitable body of water was not available...
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  • significantly moved to replace the traditional Roman penalty of the Poena cullei for poisoners and practitioners of malign magic, which involved being...
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    sea. This seems to correspond with the Romano-Byzantine punishment of poena cullei (from Latin "punishment of the sack"), where those who committed parricide...
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  • horses (example: Al-Musta'sim, the last Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad). Poena cullei, used during the Roman Empire. The victim was stuffed into a sack with...
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  • 2015. A video of the event was circulated on the Internet. Bog body Poena cullei Republican marriage Drownings at Nantes Drowning-pit Jacobsen (2008)...
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    Dattus was captured and, on 15 June 1021, received the traditional Roman poena cullei: he was tied up in a sack with a monkey, a rooster and a snake and thrown...
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  • the sea (the so-called mazzeratura [it], similar to the ancient Roma Poena cullei). The atrocity prompted a quick Western response; a huge army under the...
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    bag" and thrown into the sea, probably the Romano-Byzantine practice of poena cullei (from Latin 'penalty of the sack'). The final recorded embassy arrived...
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    who had killed their own relatives, replacing the older punishment of poena cullei, the stuffing of the convict into a leather sack, along with a rooster...
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  • punishment is unknown. In the second the parricidas punishment was the poena cullei. Its provisions consisted in closing the culprit murderer in a sack of...
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    "Pisco Montano" of Terracina: closed in a sack and thrown into the sea ("Poena cullei"). Finding of body of Saint Caesarius deacon in Terracina. Relic of St...
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