Animal Trials (and Punishments) w/ Katie Sykes




Cruel and Unusual: A Podcast on Punishment show

Summary: Do you find the idea of a pig on trial for murder or locusts punished for trespass ridiculous? If so (and I hope you do), than the history of medieval animal trials will likely intrigue, disturb, and downright baffle you. Fortunately, Katie Sykes helps us unpack one of the strangest phenomena in the long, lurid history of punishment.