The punishment of crime in the eighteenth century was often
A) carried out by mobs after the criminals were charged in court.
B) less severe than the crime would merit.
C) the responsibility of the army.
D) public and very gruesome.
E) carried out privately so as not to inflame the general populace.
D
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