If no, what punishment in our society today, is better fitting for those that would have warranted capital punishment?
If yes, how and what would someone be sentenced to capital punishment for? And is there a best process that our society can conduct it?
I'd like to know your opinion about this kind of death sentence, which I've read many times it was considered the most shameful, as was crucifixion before Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christ; usually reserved for traitors, petty thieves and low-life criminals, especially in comparison with beheading, which was regarded as a honorable way of dying, reserved for nobles. Thanks a lot!
Cf. for example:
Giovanni De Luna, Il corpo del nemico ucciso (2006);
Samuel Edgerton Jr, Pictures and Punishment: Art and Criminal Prosecution during the Florentine Renaissence (1985);
Robert Mills, Suspended Animation. Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture (2005);
Gherardo Ortalli, La pittura infamante: Secoli XIII-XVI (1979);
Adriano Prosperi, Crime and Forgiveness. Christianizing Execution in Medieval Europe (2020).
