Capital punishment: Before, During & After Tsar Ivan the Terrible
The death penalty was first used in Russia in 1398. It was used as a final conviction for someone who had previously been convicted of theft two times prior. Through the years the types of punishment carried out by different rulers changed and evolved with the times. Specifically, under the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. So how did punishment change before, during and after Ivan the terrible? In 1497 the Sudebnik was created by Ivan III. This document outlined what acts would be punishable by the criminal justice. It outlined which kinds of punishment were acceptable in order to protect feudal landownership. (6) Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible or Ivan the Fearsome, was the Grand Prince of Moscow from …show more content…
Deeply impressed by the pageant and the horror it generated among ordinary people, he brought the idea back to Russia, promptly dispatching hundreds of rebels with a series of mass public executions. (6) Peter the great: He changed the rules for the death penalty and increased the penalty to be the punishment for 123 different crimes. The death penalty now only included three different styles: firing squad, beheading and hanging. In a different form of punishment Peter the Great abolished his sister who tired to turn against him and take over the throne. Peter the Great sent his half sister, Sophia, off to the Novodevichy Convent when she tried to stage a coupe in 1682. Peter had the men who had tried to help her, the Streltsy, over hung outside of her room. They were left there to rot and smell. Her room was close enough to where the bodies were hung, that she could smell the rotting flesh. Sophia would later die in the Convent in 1689. One similarity that can be made between Ivan and Peter is they both were responsible for the death of one of their
The death penalty was first used in Russia in 1398. It was used as a final conviction for someone who had previously been convicted of theft two times prior. Through the years the types of punishment carried out by different rulers changed and evolved with the times. Specifically, under the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible. So how did punishment change before, during and after Ivan the terrible? In 1497 the Sudebnik was created by Ivan III. This document outlined what acts would be punishable by the criminal justice. It outlined which kinds of punishment were acceptable in order to protect feudal landownership. (6) Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible or Ivan the Fearsome, was the Grand Prince of Moscow from …show more content…
Deeply impressed by the pageant and the horror it generated among ordinary people, he brought the idea back to Russia, promptly dispatching hundreds of rebels with a series of mass public executions. (6) Peter the great: He changed the rules for the death penalty and increased the penalty to be the punishment for 123 different crimes. The death penalty now only included three different styles: firing squad, beheading and hanging. In a different form of punishment Peter the Great abolished his sister who tired to turn against him and take over the throne. Peter the Great sent his half sister, Sophia, off to the Novodevichy Convent when she tried to stage a coupe in 1682. Peter had the men who had tried to help her, the Streltsy, over hung outside of her room. They were left there to rot and smell. Her room was close enough to where the bodies were hung, that she could smell the rotting flesh. Sophia would later die in the Convent in 1689. One similarity that can be made between Ivan and Peter is they both were responsible for the death of one of their