[mmhsieh]

even up past the renaissance, the bar for killing was low. we forget sometimes that newton was master of the mint and he hanged a lot of counterfeiters. for making fake money. newton killed dudes for making fake money.

[rsynnott]

As mentioned in one of the above articles, that was a modern liberal punishment. They used to BOIL forgers.

[mmhsieh]

forgers and regicides apparently. don't touch the king's loot!