Courtroom battles often produce sensational scenes resulting in curious spectators and endless news coverage. From ancient to modern times, trials attract significant attention. This collection explores some of the most-fascinating.
Herod questions Jesus, demanding a miracle, but sends him back without a sentence.
Jesus predicts his own death, causing many to doubt that he is the Messiah.
Five hundred years later, the Catholic Church canonizes Joan as a Saint. Joan's life demonstrates the effect one person can have on history.
Joan and her army continue to fight even though the King wants peace. Joan loses some battles, is captured and sold to the English.
Joan's jailors steal her clothes, forcing her to wear men's clothing. As soon as she puts them on, she is deemed to be a relapsed heretic and sentence...
Serving time in an Indiana prison, John Dillinger meets Harry "Pete" Pierpont and Homer Van Meter who teach him to become a bank robber.
Burns follows Wycliffe; both his body and his books are burned.
Learn more about Chief Justice John Marshall, his wife Polly, and a locket.
John Quincy Adams argues in defense of the Africans.
Booth changes his plans and kills the president at Fords Theater.
John Wycliffe translates the Bible into English, but Oxford expels him as his writings become more radical.
The jurors in the Penn case go to Newgate Prison until they pay all fines for disobeying the judge and finding in favor of William Penn.
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