 In England , burning was a legal punishment inflicted on women found guilty of high treason , petty treason and heresy . Over a period of several centuries , female convicts were publicly burnt at the stake , sometimes alive , for a range of activities including coining and mariticide . 
 In England , burning was a legal punishment inflicted on women found guilty of high treason , petty treason and heresy . Over a period of several centuries , female convicts <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> publicly burnt at the stake , sometimes alive , for a range of activities including coining and mariticide . 
In England , burnin was a legal punishment inflicted on women found guilty of high treason , petty treason and heresy . ova a period of several centuries , female convicts was publicly burnt at da stake , sometimes alive , fir a range of activities including coining and mariticide .