• Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    This was definitely a trend in early modern Britain where basically every crime was punished by the death penalty. Better to kill the lord while stealing sheep or cutting trees because dead men tell no tales

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They needed to force people off the land and in to the factories, but they also wanted the financial advantages of wage slavery, so they just made everything a death penalty offense to terrorize the peasantry in to submission.