Introduction: The night before the death row in ancient times, why were their wives allowed to visit? Jailer: It's a benefit!
Everyone experiences the same two things in their lifetime: birth and death! We don't have a choice for birth, but we actually have some choices about death, such as active or passive.
The death penalty is the most severe punishment, but it is also an irreparable punishment
At the end of life, no one wants to have a life that has been cut off, but a life without restraint will only hurt more people.
In ancient times, there were many death row inmates like this, although the means at that time were more cruel, but these death row inmates would be slightly more relaxed in their custody the night before they were beheaded, after all, there was no future. We often see in film and television dramas that the last meal of death row inmates will be extremely rich, in fact, in addition to this last meal, the last night of death row inmates is also very rich, because on this night, their wives will be allowed to come to visit!
Ancient beheading of death row prisoners, often choose in the autumn, because autumn is the season of all things withering, they think that this combination is reasonable, of course, this is also to leave a way back for themselves, the ancient means of handling cases is not very clever, unjust, false and wrong cases do not occur in the minority, in order to ensure the authenticity of things as much as possible, the decision is gradually replaced by the autumn after the beheading, which is a constant amendment to the law.
Secondly, in addition to the improvement of the law, there is indispensable humanistic care, on the one hand, because of the concern for the loss of life, on the other hand, because there are many legends of ghosts and gods in ancient times, if the death row prisoner is beheaded with resentment, then it is very likely that he will incarnate as a ghost to ask for his life. That's why there was a guillotine, and the wife sent off this scene.
"Heart-warming" benefits from those in power
During the Han Dynasty, there was a system of "listening to the wife to go to prison", allowing the wives of prisoners to live in the prison together, and in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, this project was used for death row prisoners, which was a great benefit for death row prisoners!
The ancient environment determines that the fertility rate must not be high, and the population is an important factor in the development of the country, can give birth to one, the development to the back even if it is not yet married, the family will also march to send a woman in, leave a offspring.
Secondly, such a practice can also avoid the occurrence of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, from ancient times to the present rich is the uncle, the top bag of things are not uncommon, and as the wife who lives together, it is bound to be very familiar with her husband, through the performance of the two people together, you can easily see whether it is me; secondly, this method is also to leave the last opportunity for death row inmates to redress grievances, and the wife will inevitably seek redress when she learns that her husband has grievances.
In ancient times, there would be a crowd watching the execution, and if there was really a grievance, it would make the people's hearts float, so the county officials would inevitably retry the case and try their best to avoid the occurrence of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.
This act of humanity, in stark contrast to the cruel criminal law, shows the benevolent side of those in power and can stabilize the rule, so it is adopted by future kings.
In any way,
This is all a kind of welfare, but also a kind of attention to human rights.
However, in the era of frequent wars, this system was rarely adopted, after all, the people in power at that time were too busy to take care of themselves, and it was difficult to implement it effectively.
Today, our laws are far more perfect than in ancient times, but our country still has not abolished the death penalty, for this, I personally agree with this, this is the greatest deterrent to criminals, if this item is abolished, it will make some people more unscrupulous, more arrogant, just like the Suyuan case in South Korea.
Demons should stay in hell.