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I’m playing the Witcher 3 and I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of hanged soldiers about charged with crimes of Sabotage and Desertion. Did capital punishment like this ever occur in medieval armies? Did medieval armies ever have such a thing as military law?

by /u/Gothic-Wendigo in /r/AskHistorians

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