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When societies put animals on trial

12 mins | Sep 30, 2017

There were pigs and locusts in the courtroom. In Medieval Europe, animals were regularly tried and sentenced for the pains they inflicted on a local community. Sonya Vatomsky shines a light on a little-known side of legal history – when animals were regularly put on trial.