Murderers In Medieval Ireland Were Given To The Family Of The Victim As Slaves If They Failed To… Did You Know That ?

The local Irish law or "Brehon law", which was connected up to the mid-seventeenth century, truly ordered that killers be given to the victimized person's gang. In the event that the killers neglected to pay a fine, the group of the chump had a legitimate right to utilize them as slaves or execute

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However, this was a last resort applied only if the convicted murderer failed to pay the two fines : a fixed one, known as a “body fine” or “man price” and an honor fine for the closest of kin to the deceased.

Only if the murderer couldn’t pay those two fines would the family of the victim be given three choices: wait for a delayed payment of the fines, take the murderer and sell him as a slave or kill him. This is considered by some the first step to the eradication of the capital punishment by encouraging monetary bails instead. Also, as Christianity preaches for forgiveness, the two fines could be considered both punishment and forgiveness for the murderer.

The main steps towards limit or abolishment of the death penalty appear to have been made as right on time as medieval times.