What are the types of punishment in siam?
punishment for what? What types of crime? DUHHHHH Know what you are asking then ask it. As with ANY country, the punishment would depend on the crime. The more severe the crime the more severe the punishment. Punishments for criminal offenses are usually jail, or for serious crimes perhaps death. Thailand (when it was known as Siam) had a very strict and perhaps corrupt judicial system. Prison sentences varied in length and capital punishment was usually carried out at the temples by beheading the convict. Prison conditions at that time were very poor (and they still are). The types of punishment would be imprisonment and death. The length of imprisonment would depend on the crime. Death penalties, as I have noted, were carried out at the temples. There would have been 2 executioners, as a single cut from the sword would not have been sufficient to decapitate the convict. It usually took several strikes to complete the decapitation. Contrary to popular myth, the Thai (Siam) courts did
