Constitutio Criminalis Carolina

Constitutio Criminalis Carolina, the first body of German criminal law, also known as the Halsgerichtsordnung (Procedure for the judgment of capital crimes). The Carolina was agreed in 1530 at the Diet of Augsburg under Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and ratified two years later at the Diet in Regensburg, at which point it became law. Amongst other things, it decreed that those found guilty of witchcraft should be executed with fire, and was also the basis for the use of obtaining confessions through torture

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1530 1532 Augsburg Carolina Constitutio Criminalis Judgment Laws Procedure Regensburg Regulation

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