The Death Penalty in Scotland

There was this thing caled grand larceny. If you stole something worth more than a shilling, that was the death penalty for you. But what juries would sometimes do as they would return a verdict of not grand larcene, but petty larceny - and get off with no execution. What you say anner, about them being bit more lenient in scotland is mostly true. So if a child beat or cursed either their father or mother, they sholl be put to death without mercy. After the reformation, the law was sort of done by the kirk, by the church, and they started bringing in laws for quite a lot of things