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Punishment was very severe in the Middle Ages.

Here are 2 punishments:

Tie your hands and feet up and then drop you into a river if you sunk then you were innocent but if you floated then you were guilty

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Make you hold onto a burning iron bar and if the wound hadn't began to heal within 3 days then you were guilty

As you can see many innocent people would have died

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