Because it was done that way to spread fear and send a message.
It wasn't simply murder, it was a statement.
Italian city-states like Venice and Genoa were located on the trade routes that linked the rest of western Europe with the East. Both these city-states became bustling trading centers. ... The increase of trade led to a new kind of economy. During the middle ages people traded goods for other goods.
The mountains, islands, and seas isolated and separated and divided Greece into small groups that became city states. The sea allowed Greeks to trade food by traveling over water
<span>Justice Brown's verdict stated that separation does not necessarily imply any inequality. Therefore, things could be separate but equal at the same time. This was one of the influential cases in starting the Civil Rights movement.</span>
The treaties were used to remove the Cherokee and other native American tribes from their lands by telling and persuading them that they would be moved to a better 'more civilized' place for new life opportunities.