For what could be the death penalty shlopotat

10th place: In medieval England was considered a serious crime novel with a foreigner or a foreigner. All citizens are able to expose an affair with the other states, was accused of treason and executed quartering. Moreover, the defendants could not have anything to help themselves: they simply denied the right to vote.
# 9: In ancient China, and the Maya Indians could easily be on the scaffold for the distortion of historical truth. For correct display of the history of hired specifically monitored by police who could arrest anyone who seemed suspicious to them. Incidentally, chop his head in China it was considered inhumane. His Chinese criminals were hanged or forced to swallow the needles.
8th place: At the time of the Inquisition were burned at the stake guilty. This applied not only to the people, but also books and letters, on which were arranged show trials with a jury and witnesses. By the way, for communication with the devil never judged women who weigh more than 50kg. It was believed that it was 50kg - maximum weight that can pick up a broom, and without this vehicle witch, of course, not be able to get on the Sabbath.

7th place: In the philosophical writings, which questioned the existence of God, it was possible to get to the rack or face a terrible death by drilling teeth. Yes, the first drill (of course, the primitive types) was invented precisely in times of medieval inquisition.
6th place: In medieval Florence criminals for life recorded in the nobility. At the time of the rights of the republic had only commoners and nobles had a very hard time.
5th place: In England, it was possible to shlopotat the death penalty for making gold from base metals.
4th place: In ancient Greece - for stealing vegetables from the plantation community.
3rd place: plundering the state treasury. For this was judged not only in the West, but also in Russia. And here, before the execution, whipped criminals burning birch brooms.
2nd place: Links. With the population of Siberia began to deport not only there, but there. Odoyevski exile, for example, died in the terrible climate of Sochi, from which even the houses were scattered in two or three years.
1st place: The Persian law on beer. For the bad brew beer in Persia could be chosen - to be drowned in the real proof of your crime, or to drink it until upeshsya to death.