The english have enjoyed most every type of execution at one time or another. They take a back seat to no one on the continent. The whole carnival atmosphere at the public executions very english, the bravado and joking nature that some of the condemned will show with the crowd. A little bravado on the way to your death. In england's now known as the bloody code, which was skewed against the lower classes. You pickpocket somebody for more than twelvepence? Twelvepence of value, boom, you're gone. Anylvia: I mean, it got to be crazy if you go and look at the law in fifties england.