The Death Penalty and Book V
Criminal actions, forms of condemnation, additional penalties and social distinction in Manueline and Philippines Ordinations
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https://doi.org/10.23927/issn.2526-1347.RIHGB.2021(487):13-40Keywords:
death penalty, Book V, Manueline Ordinations, Philippines OrdinationsAbstract
As part of the master’s thesis entitled Let One Die a Natural Death: The Regulation of Death Penalty in Portuguese America (1530-1731), the paper aims to analyze how death penalty is treated in Book V of the Manueline and Philippine Ordinations, the main legal texts dealing with penalties during the colonization process in Brazil. The analysis focus exclusively on determinations regarding capital punishment and on establishing a comparison between the two legal compilations. We show the various criminal actions that would lead to capital punishment, the different forms of convictions used as well as additional combined sentences. We finally reflect upon the marked social distinction observed when it came to limiting
sentences, and the way death sentences were determined, as well as upon the equally severe nature of the studied laws.
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