Wearing the Scarlet letter is the smallest punishment. The usual punishment for adultery was death.
The severest possible penalty for adultery in the Massachusetts colony during the time of "The Scarlet Letter" was execution. Adulterers could face death by hanging or by being burned at the stake as punishment for their crime.
I doubt if adultery is illegal in Kansas any more than it is anywhere else in the western world.
Adultery is not a crime in the state of Mississippi. However, adultery can be used as a reason for a divorce.
maximum of six years und RPC art.333
Thou shalt not. The penalty Especialy for women is to be stoned to death.
No, Massachusetts does not have the death penalty, and therefore, it does not utilize lethal injection as a method of execution. The state abolished the death penalty in 1984, and there have been no executions since then. Consequently, lethal injection is not applicable in Massachusetts.
Not since 1947.
The traditional Jewish penalty for a cheating wife was death during the more patriarchal days. Divorce is now a common way of handling adultery instead.
-Being a stubborn child...
I believe the real question is wHat is larceny?
The Scarlet Letter is a book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, set in North American colonial times, in which the protagonist is made to wear a scarlet letter "A" signifying that she is guilty of adultery - yes, believe it or not, there was a time when that was taken VERY seriously!
Death lol