Crime and punishment

Left: Hungarian Jews arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland, in June 1944. Between May and July that year, more than 430,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to the camp complex. Right: Prisoners at Dachau celebrate the liberation of the camp by US soldiers on 29 April 1945. The camp was used again after the war to house SS personnel awaiting trial, and then German refugees. (Photos by Getty Images and Alamy)

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A police officer uses his baton on a protester in Glasgow, 1919

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Two girls are tried for witchcraft in a courtroom scene

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Abraham Lincoln (Photo by Library of Congress)

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People flee to boats on the River Thames to escape the Great Fire of London, September 1666.

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The pirate John Avery and his crew capture the the Moghul emperor Aurangzeb 's ship in the Indian ocean in the late 17th century. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Medieval punishments, Toulouse, 14th century. (Photo by Photo12/UIG via Getty Images)

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Two fighting Irishmen with axes, one hitting another in the head. Illustration after the Roy manuscript, 13th century (Photo by Getty Images)

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Protesters demonstrate against a US military base at Santo Stefano in 2005

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Painting of an auto-da-fé

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What was a drunkard's cloak used for? This illustration shows a man wearing the archaic punishment tool designed to punish habitual drinkers. (Photo by Getty Images)

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Painting of Bligh and those loyal to him being cast adrift from the Bounty in a small boat

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Photo of JFK in the motorcade

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