I read somewhere that back in Jesus's day they used to crucify children as well as adults. Was that to punish the parents?

Crucifixion was not at all about justice.

I was a terrorist tactic,

used against conquered people,

to keep the population in fear of their rulers.

In some places,

they ran out of trees to hang people on.

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Regards,

John Popelish

Crucifixion was only used in cases of treason on non-Roman citizens. I don't think children can be treasonous.

stealing a loaf of bread. yeah. a loaf of bread.

Do you have a source?

I think it would be adorable, having some little crosses next to the adult-size crosses.

Don't give the Republicans any new ideas.

Normally children would have been enslaved or just killed quickly if they were too young to be enslaved, and that would have happened only in a mass conquest situation or something equally unusual.

Normally, there would have been no point to crucifying children. The Romans were efficient if nothing else, and they weren't gratuitously cruel (or at least, gratuitously willing to infuriate the natives. They wanted to co-opt them, not anger them.) Crucifying babies wouldn't have represented their modus operandi in most circumstances. So, quick deaths would have been preferred.

Where did you read this? In a work by a serious historian? If so, who?

However: there was the long siege involving Titus and his laying waste to Palestine in 70 AD in which entire Jewish families were apparently crucified, but that was unusual.

I think one of the 613 Jewish laws was to stone disobedient children.

If it wasn't one o the laws it was at least suggested.

Then there's...

Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.”

Psalms 137:9 Because “he loves you

They didn't like kids...

They weren't at all 'pro-life'.

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Much later than that, here in Britain kids faced the hangman the same as adults.

And dogs as well.