Chinese bamboo torture
The infamous method of the horrible Chinese execution throughout the world. Perhaps a legend, for to this day not a single documentary evidence has survived that this torture was actually used.
Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on Earth. Some of its Chinese varieties can grow a meter in a day. Some historians believe that the deadly bamboo torture was used not only by the ancient Chinese, but also by the Japanese military during World War II.
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How it works?
1) The sprouts of living bamboo are sharpened with a knife to make sharp "spears";
2) The victim is suspended horizontally, with his back or belly, above a bed of young pointed bamboo;
3) Bamboo grows rapidly in height, pierces the skin of the martyr and grows through his abdominal cavity, a person dies for a very long time and painfully.
Like the torture with bamboo, many researchers consider the "iron maiden" a terrible legend. Perhaps these metal sarcophagi with sharp thorns inside only frightened those under investigation, after which they confessed to anything.
"Iron Maiden"
The "Iron Maiden" was invented at the end of the 18th century, that is, at the end of the Catholic Inquisition.
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How it works?
1) The victim is pushed into the sarcophagus and the door is closed;
2) The thorns driven into the inner walls of the "iron maiden" are rather short and do not pierce the victim through, but only cause pain. The investigator, as a rule, receives a confession statement in a matter of minutes, which the arrested person can only sign;
3) If the prisoner shows fortitude and remains silent, long nails, knives and rapiers are pushed through special holes in the sarcophagus. The pain becomes simply unbearable;
4) The victim never confesses to the deed, then she was locked in a sarcophagus for a long time, where she died from blood loss;
5) In some models of the "iron maiden" spikes were provided at eye level to gouge them out.
The name of this torture comes from the Greek "scaphium", which means "trough". Skafism was popular in ancient Persia. The victim, most often a prisoner of war, during the torture was devoured alive by various insects not indifferent to human flesh and blood and their larvae.
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How it works?
1) The prisoner is placed in a shallow trough and wrapped in chains.
2) He is forcibly fed with large quantities of milk and honey, from which the victim begins to have profuse diarrhea, attracting insects.
3) The prisoner, who has been crap, smeared with honey, is allowed to swim in the trough in the swamp, where many hungry creatures are found.
4) Insects immediately begin their meal, with the living flesh of the martyr as the main course.
Pear of Suffering
This brutal tool has been used to punish women who have aborted, liars and homosexuals. The device was inserted into the vagina for women or the anus for men. When the executioner twisted the screw, the "petals" opened, tearing the flesh and bringing unbearable torment to the victims. Many died then from blood poisoning.
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How it works?
1) An instrument consisting of pointed, pear-shaped leaf-shaped segments is pushed by the client into the desired hole in the body;
2) The executioner gradually turns the screw on the top of the pear, while the "leaves" -segments bloom inside the martyr, causing hellish pain;
3) After the pear is opened, the guilty one gets internal injuries incompatible with life and dies in terrible agony, if he has not already fallen into unconsciousness before.
Brazen bull
The design of this death machine was developed by the ancient Greeks, or, to be more precise, the coppersmith Perillus, who sold his terrible bull to the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris, who simply adored torturing and killing people in unusual ways.
A living person was pushed inside the copper statue through a special door. And then Falaris first of all tested the unit on its creator - the greedy Perilla. Subsequently, Falaris himself was roasted in a bull.
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How it works?
1) The sacrifice is closed in a hollow copper statue of a bull;
2) A fire is made under the belly of the bull;
3) The victim is roasted alive;
4) The structure of the bull is such that the cries of the martyr are heard from the jaws of the statue, like a bull's roar;
5) Jewelry and amulets were made from the bones of the executed, which were sold in bazaars and were in great demand.
Rat torture was very popular in ancient China. However, we will take a look at the rat punishment technique developed by the leader of the 16th century Netherlands Revolution, Didrik Sonoi.
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How it works?
1) The martyr stripped naked is laid on the table and tied;
2) Large, heavy cages with hungry rats are placed on the prisoner's stomach and chest. The bottom of the cages is opened with a special latch;
3) Hot coals are placed on top of the cages to stir up the rats;
4) Trying to escape from the heat of hot coals, rats gnaw their way through the flesh of the victim.
Cradle of Judas
The Cradle of Judas was one of the most painful torture machines in the arsenal of the Suprema, the Spanish Inquisition. Victims usually died of infection, due to the fact that the torture machine's pointed seat was never disinfected. The cradle of Judas, as an instrument of torture, was considered "loyal", because it did not break bones and did not tear ligaments.
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How it works?
1) The victim, whose hands and feet are tied, is seated on the top of a pointed pyramid;
2) The top of the pyramid is driven into the anus or vagina;
3) With the help of ropes, the victim is gradually lowered lower and lower;
4) The torture continues for several hours or even days until the victim dies from powerlessness and pain, or from blood loss due to rupture of soft tissues.
Rack
Probably the most famous and unsurpassed death machine called "rack". It was first experienced around AD 300. e. on the Christian martyr Vincent of Zaragoza.
Anyone who survived the rearing could no longer use their muscles and turned into a helpless vegetable.
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How it works?
1. This instrument of torture is a special bed with rollers at both ends, on which ropes were wound to hold the victim's wrists and ankles. As the rollers rotated, the ropes were pulled in opposite directions, stretching the body;
2. Ligaments on the victim's arms and legs are stretched and torn, bones pop out of the joints.
3. Another version of the rack was also used, called the strappado: it consisted of 2 pillars dug into the ground and connected by a crossbar. The person being interrogated was tied behind his back and lifted by a rope tied to his hands. Sometimes a log or other weights were attached to his bound legs. At the same time, the hands of the person raised on the rack were twisted back and often came out of the joints, so that the convict had to hang on the twisted hands. They were on the rack from several minutes to an hour or more. This type of rack was used most often in Western Europe.
4. In Russia, a suspect who was raised on a rack was beaten on the back with a whip, and “put on the fire,” that is, they drove over the body with burning brooms.
5. In some cases, the executioner broke the ribs of a man hanging on a rack with hot pincers.
Shiri (camel cap)
A monstrous fate awaited those whom the Juanzhuans (a union of nomadic Turkic-speaking peoples) took into slavery. They destroyed the memory of the slave with terrible torture - putting a width on the victim's head. Usually this fate befell young men captured in battles.
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How it works?
1. First, the slaves' heads were shaved baldly, each hair was carefully scraped out at the root.
2. Executors slaughtered the camel and refreshed its carcass, first of all, separating its heaviest, densenest part.
3. Dividing it into pieces, it was immediately pulled in paired form over the shaved heads of the prisoners. These pieces covered the slaves' heads like plaster. This meant putting on a shir.
4. After putting on the width, the neck of the doomed was shackled into a special wooden block so that the subject could not touch his head to the ground. In this form, they were taken away from crowded places so that no one could hear their heartbreaking cries, and were thrown there in an open field, with their hands and feet tied, in the sun, without water and without food.
5. The torture lasted 5 days.
6. Only a few survived, and the rest died not from hunger or even from thirst, but from the unbearable, inhuman torment caused by the drying rawhide camel skin shrinking on the head. Compressing inexorably under the rays of the scorching sun, it squeezed wide, squeezed the shaved head of a slave like an iron hoop. Already on the second day, the shaved hair of the martyrs began to sprout. Coarse and straight Asian hair sometimes grew into rawhide, in most cases, finding no way out, the hair curled and again went into the scalp, causing even greater suffering. Within a day, the person lost his mind. Only on the fifth day did the Zhuangjuans come to check whether any of the prisoners had survived. If at least one of the tortured was found alive, it was believed that the goal was achieved.
7. Anyone who underwent such a procedure, or died, could not bear the torture, or lost his memory for a lifetime, turned into a mankurt - a slave who does not remember his past.
8. The skin of one camel was enough for five to six widths.
Spanish water torture
In order to best carry out the procedure for this torture, the accused was placed on one of the types of rack or on a special large table with a rising middle part. After the hands and feet of the victim were tied to the edges of the table, the executioner proceeded to work in one of several ways. One of these methods was to force the victim to swallow a large amount of water using a funnel, then beat the inflated and arched abdomen.
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Another form involved placing a rag tube into the victim's throat, through which water was slowly poured, which caused the victim to swell and suffocate. If that was not enough, the tube was pulled out, causing internal damage, and then reinserted and the process repeated. Sometimes they used cold water torture. In this case, the accused lay for hours on the table naked under a stream of ice cold water. It is interesting to note that this kind of torture was considered easy, and the confessions obtained in this way were accepted by the court as voluntary and given to the defendants without torture. Most often, this torture was used by the Spanish Inquisition in order to beat confessions from heretics and witches.
Spanish armchair
This instrument of torture was widely used by the executioners of the Spanish Inquisition and was a chair made of iron, on which the prisoner was seated, and his legs were enclosed in blocks attached to the legs of the chair. When he found himself in such a completely helpless position, a brazier was placed under his feet; with hot coals, so that the legs began to slowly roast, and in order to prolong the poor man's suffering, the legs were poured with oil from time to time.
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Another version of the Spanish chair was often used, which was a metal throne, to which the victim was tied and a fire was made under the seat, frying the buttocks. The famous poisoner La Voisin was tortured in such a chair during the famous Poisoning Case in France.
Gridiron (grate for torture by fire)
This type of torture is often mentioned in the lives of saints - real and invented, but there is no evidence that Gridiron "survived" until the Middle Ages and had even a small circulation in Europe. It is usually described as an ordinary metal grate 6 feet long and two and a half wide, set horizontally on legs so that a fire can be made underneath.
Sometimes the gridiron was made in the form of a rack in order to be able to resort to combined torture.
Saint Lawrence was martyred on a similar lattice.
This torture was rarely used. Firstly, it was easy enough to kill the person being interrogated, and secondly, there were a lot of simpler, but no less cruel tortures.
Bloody eagle
One of the most ancient tortures, during which the victim was tied face down and the back was opened, the ribs were broken off at the spine and spread apart like wings. In Scandinavian legends, it is stated that during such an execution, the victims were sprinkled with salt.
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Many historians claim that this torture was used by pagans against Christians, others are sure that spouses caught in treason were punished in this way, and still others claim that the bloody eagle is just a terrible legend.
"Catherine's wheel"
Before tying the victim to the wheel, her limbs were broken. When rotating, the legs and arms were finally broken, bringing unbearable torment to the victim. Some died from painful shock, while others suffered for several days.
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Spanish donkey
A wooden log in the form of a triangle was fixed on "legs". The naked victim was placed on top at a sharp angle that cut right into the crotch. To make the torture more unbearable, weights were tied to the legs.
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Spanish boot
This is such a fastening on the leg with a metal plate, which with each question and the subsequent refusal to answer it as required, tightened more and more in order to break the bones of the person's legs. To enhance the effect, sometimes an inquisitor was connected to the torture, who hit the mount with a hammer. Often, after such torture, all the bones of the victim below the knee were shattered, and the wounded skin looked like a bag for these bones.
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Quartering by horses
The victim was tied to four horses - by the arms and legs. Then the animals were allowed to gallop. There were no options - only death.
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As early as the 19th and early 20th centuries, execution was considered a preferred punishment over prison, because being in custody turned out to be a slow mortification. The stay in prison was paid by the relatives, and they themselves often asked that the culprit be killed.
Convicts were not kept in prisons - it was too expensive. If the relatives had money, then they could take their loved one for maintenance (usually he was sitting in an earthen hole). But a tiny part of society was able to afford it.
Therefore, the main method of punishment for minor crimes (theft, insults to an official, etc.) were stocks. The most common type of shoe is kanga (or chia). It was used very widely, since it did not require the state to build a prison, and also prevented escape.
Sometimes, in order to further reduce the cost of punishment, several prisoners were shackled into this neck block. But even in this case, relatives or compassionate people had to feed the criminal.
Each judge considered it his duty to invent his own reprisals against criminals and prisoners. The most common were: sawing off the foot (at first they sawed off one foot, the second time the recidivist caught another), removing the knee caps, cutting off the nose, cutting off the ears, branding.
In an effort to make the punishment heavier, the judges invented an execution that was called "to carry out five types of punishment." The offender should have been branded, cut off his arms or legs, beaten to death with sticks, and put his head on the market for all to see.
In Chinese tradition, decapitation was considered a more severe form of execution than strangulation, despite the fact that suffocation is characterized by prolonged torment.
The Chinese believed that the human body is a gift from his parents, and therefore it is extremely disrespectful to return the dismembered body to oblivion. Therefore, at the request of relatives, and more often for a bribe, other types of executions were used.
Strangulation. The criminal was tied to a pole, a rope was wrapped around his neck, the ends of which were in the hands of the executioners. They slowly twist the rope with special sticks, gradually crushing the convict.
The strangulation could last for a very long time, since the executioners at times loosened the rope and let the almost strangled victim take a few convulsive breaths, and then tighten the noose again.
"Cage" or "standing blocks" (Li-jia) - the device for this execution is a neck block, which was fixed on top of bamboo or wooden poles, knitted into a cage, at a height of about 2 meters. The convict was placed in a cage, and bricks or tiles were placed under his feet, so that they were then slowly removed.
The executioner removed the bricks, and the man hung with his neck clamped by a block that began to choke him, this could go on for months until all the stands were removed.
Lin Chi - "death from a thousand cuts" or "sea pike bites" - the most terrible execution by cutting off small pieces from the victim's body for a long period of time.
Such an execution followed high treason and parricide. Lin-chi, for the purpose of intimidation, was performed in public places with a large crowd of onlookers.
For crimes punishable by the death penalty and other serious offenses, there were 6 classes of punishment. The first was called lin-chi. This punishment was applied to traitors, parricides, murderers of brothers, husbands, uncles, and mentors.
The offender was tied to a cross and cut into either 120, or 72, or 36, or 24 pieces. In the presence of extenuating circumstances, his body, as a sign of imperial favor, was cut into only 8 pieces.
The criminal was cut into 24 pieces as follows: 1 and 2 punches cut off the eyebrows; 3 and 4 - shoulders; 5 and 6 - mammary glands; 7 and 8 - the muscles of the arms between the hand and the elbow; 9 and 10 - the muscles of the arms between the elbow and shoulder; 11 and 12 - flesh from the thighs; 13 and 14 - calves of the legs; 15 - pierced the heart with a blow; 16 - cut off the head; 17 and 18 - hands; 19 and 20 - the rest of the hands; 21 and 22 - feet; 23 and 24 - legs. They cut into 8 pieces as follows: eyebrows were cut off with 1 and 2 blows; 3 and 4 - shoulders; 5 and 6 - mammary glands; 7 - pierced the heart with a blow; 8 - cut off the head.
But there was a way to avoid these monstrous types of execution - for a large bribe. For a very large bribe, the jailer could give a criminal awaiting death in an earthen hole, a knife or even poison. But it is clear that few could afford such expenses.
Today we have prepared TOP pro the most terrible executions in the world.Many people dream of being in the past centuries, after watching films that show all the delights of balls, palaces and entertainment of that time. But if you really want to be in the past, then do not forget that there was a completely different side of the coin.
Witches were burned at the stake, heretics were killed, and many people were simply tortured to death with impunity, so that the rest would not be confused. So the topic of today's article will be just about the most terrible executions of the past. So think twice if you really want to go back in time, because what happens, you cannot go to court.
5th place: Impaling
Some of us use an expression that has long been inscribed in the lexicon, namely, "Put him on a count." Now we use it only in a figurative sense, but if you find yourself in ancient Russia and make an unsuccessful joke, you could very well familiarize yourself with this type of execution personally.
A person was introduced into the anus with a stake, sometimes pointed, and sometimes blunt, so that he would suffer longer and after that they put him vertically. Therefore, under the weight of a person, the stake penetrated deeper and deeper inside, causing unbearable pain and, as a result, death.
4th place: Freshness
Another no less sophisticated method of murder, and for many it was such a special way of entertainment. They gathered mainly in some central place so that more people could come and skinned a person alive. Not only did they inflict terrible pain on the offender in this way, but also his skin was left nailed to the walls for a long time, so that, as they say, the rest would not be familiar.
3rd place: Bamboo
In Asia, the most attentive people noticed that bamboo grows very quickly, it can grow up to 30 cm in just a day. Then it was decided that there was no need to be sophisticated and come up with special devices for death, when you can use nature for your own purposes. A person was taken, tied to bamboo shoots in a horizontal position, and left that way. The bamboo grew and at the same time penetrated the body of the poor fellow, death was long and terribly painful.
2nd place: Quartering
Practically one of the most terrible types of executions, where the victim simply begs to finish faster, but this only adds fervor and heat to the audience and the executioner. The guilty ones were slightly deafened at the beginning so that they would not twitch, and after that the worst thing began, the man's stomach was ripped open, his genitals were cut off, he was cut into 4 pieces and only after that his head was cut off. The spectacle was terrible and bloody, but despite this, it was very popular. One of the worst executions in history.
1st place: Ling Chi (Thousand Knives)
Perhaps the worst and most painful execution in the world was practiced in China. Everything is strict there, I made a mistake so pay for it in full. To kill it was simply not considered a good enough example so that others would not want to, so the guys from China tied a person and from time to time cut off a piece from him.
From the very beginning of human history, people began to invent the most sophisticated methods of execution in order to punish criminals in such a way that other people would remember it and, on pain of cruel death, they would not repeat such actions. Below is a list of the ten most heinous execution methods in history. Fortunately, most of them are no longer used.
The bull Phalaris, also known as the brazen bull, is an ancient execution weapon invented by Perilius of Athens in the 6th century BC. The design was a huge copper bull, hollow inside, with a door on the back or on the side. There was enough space in it to accommodate a person. The executed person was placed inside, the door was closed, and a fire was kindled under the belly of the statue. There were holes in the head and nostrils that made it possible to hear the screams of a person inside, which were like the growl of a bull.
Interestingly, the creator of the copper bull himself, Perilay, was the first to test the device in action on the orders of the tyrant Falaris. Perilaya was removed from the bull while still alive, and then thrown off a cliff. Falaris himself also suffered the same fate - death in a bull.
Hanging, gutting and quartering is a method of execution common in England for treason, which was once considered the most terrible crime. It only applied to men. If a woman was convicted of high treason, she was burned alive. Incredibly, this method was legal and valid until 1814.
First of all, the convict was tied to a wooden sled drawn by a horse and dragged to the place of death. Then the criminal was hanged and, just a few moments before his death, was taken out of the noose and placed on the table. After that, the executioner castrated and gutted the victim, burning the entrails in front of the condemned. Finally, the victim's head was cut off, and the body was divided into four parts. An English official, Samuel Pips, witnessing one of these executions, described it in his famous diary:
“In the morning I met Captain Cuttance, then I got to Charing Cross, where I saw Major General Harrison hanged, gutted and quartered. He tried to look as cheerful as possible in this situation. They took him out of the noose, then cut off his head and took out his heart, showing the crowd, which caused general jubilation. Previously, he tried, and now they have tried him. "
Usually, all five parts of the executed were sent to different parts of the country, where they were demonstratively installed on the gallows, as a warning to others.
There were two ways to burn them alive. In the first, the convict was tied to a post and covered with wood and brushwood, so that he burned inside a flame. It is said that this is how Jeanne d'Arc was burned. Another method was that a person was placed on top of a pile of firewood, bundles of brushwood and tied with ropes or chains to a pole, so that the flame slowly rose to it, gradually covering the whole body.
When the execution was carried out by a skilled executioner, the victim burned in the following sequence: ankles, hips and arms, torso and forearms, chest, face, and finally, the person died. Needless to say, it was very painful. If a large number of people were to be burned at the same time, the victims would die from carbon monoxide before the fire reached them. And if the fire was weak, then the victim usually died from shock, blood loss or heatstroke.
In later versions of this execution, the criminal was hanged and then burned purely symbolically. This method of execution was used to burn witches in most parts of Europe, however it was not used in England.
Lynching is a particularly painful method of capital punishment by cutting off small fragments from the body for a long period of time. He was practiced in China until 1905. The victim's arms, legs and chest were slowly cut off, until they finally cut off the head and stabbed them directly in the heart. Many sources claim that the cruelty of this method is greatly exaggerated when they say that the execution could have been carried out over several days.
A contemporary witness to this execution, journalist and politician Henry Norman, describes it as follows:
“The perpetrator was tied to a cross, and the executioner, armed with a sharp knife, would begin, grabbing handfuls from the fleshy parts of the body, such as the thighs and chest, to cut them off. After that, he removed the joints and protruding parts of the body, one after the other nose and ears, fingers. Then the limbs were cut off in parts at the wrists and ankles, elbows and knees, shoulders and hips. Finally, the victim was stabbed right in the heart and the head was cut off. "
The wheel, also known as the Catherine's Wheel, is a medieval execution device. The man was tied to a wheel. Then they broke all the large bones of the body with an iron hammer and left them to die. The wheel was placed on the top of the pillar, giving the birds the opportunity to profit from the sometimes still living body. This could go on for several days until the person died from painful shock or dehydration.
In France, some concessions were granted in executions when the convicted person was strangled before performing the execution.
The convict was stripped naked and placed in a vat of boiling liquid (oil, acid, resin or lead), or in a container of cold liquid that gradually heated up. Criminals could be hung on a chain and immersed in boiling water until they died. During the reign of King Henry VIII, poisoners and counterfeiters were betrayed by a similar execution.
Peeling off the skin meant execution, during which all the skin was removed from the body of the criminal, with a sharp knife, and it had to remain intact for demonstration in order to intimidate. This execution traces its history back to ancient times. For example, the Apostle Bartholomew was crucified upside down on the cross, and his skin was flayed.
The Assyrians flayed their enemies to show who had power in the captured cities. Among the Aztecs in Mexico, ritual skin peeling or scalping was common, usually after the death of the victim.
Although this method of execution has long been considered inhumane and illegal, in Myanmar, there has been a case of skin stripping of all men in the village of Karenni.
The African necklace is a type of execution, during which a car tire filled with gasoline or other combustible material was put on the victim and then set on fire. This led to the fact that the human body turned into a molten mass. The death was extremely painful and shocking. This type of execution was common in South Africa in the 80s and 90s of the last century.
The African necklace was used against alleged criminals by "people's courts" based in black townships as a means of circumventing the apartheid judicial system (a policy of racial segregation). In this way, community members who were considered to be members of the regime were punished, including black police officers, city officials, as well as their relatives and partners.
Similar executions were observed in Brazil, Haiti and Nigeria during the Muslim protest.
Skafism is an ancient Persian method of execution that results in painful death. The victim was stripped naked and tied tightly inside a narrow boat or hollowed out tree trunk, and covered with the same boat on top so that his arms, legs and head were sticking out. The executed person was forcibly given milk and honey to cause severe diarrhea. In addition, the body was also coated with honey. After that, the person was allowed to swim in a pond with stagnant water or left in the sun. Such a "container" attracted insects, which slowly devoured the flesh and laid larvae in it, which led to gangrene. In order to prolong the torment, the victim could be fed every day. In the end, death was likely due to a combination of dehydration, exhaustion, and septic shock.
According to Plutarch, by this method in 401 BC. e. Mithridates, who killed Cyrus the Younger, was executed. The unfortunate died only 17 days later. A similar method was used by the indigenous people of America - the Indians. They tied the victim to a tree, rubbed it with oil and mud, and left it to the ants. Usually a person died from dehydration and hunger after a few days.
The person sentenced to this execution was hung upside down and sawed vertically in the middle of the body, starting from the groin. Since the body was upside down, the criminal's brain had a constant flow of blood, which, despite the great blood loss, allowed him to remain conscious for a long time.
A similar execution was used in the Middle East, Europe and parts of Asia. It is believed that sawing was the favorite method of execution of the Roman emperor Caligula. In the Asian version of this execution, the person was sawed off from the head.
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The death penalty - how much terrifying there is in this word. The associations are not pleasant. The torment of man and the cruelty of the executioners goosebumps. There are many methods of implementing the death penalty, and each of them is even more severe and inventive than the other. The past of all mankind was so cruel and atrocious that life was worthless, and hundreds of people died in painful torture. The most terrible executions of the ancient world have long been a thing of the past, but you can read about some of them in the historical literature.
The toughness of the Persians
The most horrible and painful executions have gone on since the time of the ancient Persians. One such method was to tie the victim to a tree, leaving only the limbs. They were then fed honey and milk to induce diarrhea. The body of the victim was coated with sweet and sticky honey to attract as many insects as possible. They, in turn, multiplied in feces and his skin. The victim died in agony a few weeks later from septic shock and dehydration.
Elephant execution
In Carthage, Rome and the countries of Asia, the death sentence was carried out with the help of an animal, namely an elephant. Asian elephants had been trained for more than one year and could, both kill the victim immediately, and in turn, slowly break bones one after another.
Many European travelers describe this method of execution in their observations. Using a similar method of killing a person, the Asian rulers demonstrated that they were the rightful rulers of not only people, but also animals. Basically, this method of execution was used for prisoners of war.
European brutality
But the executions of Rome and Carthage did not end there. A crowd of onlookers gathered in the amphitheaters to watch how huge, wild tigers and lions tore to death the criminals released into the arena. This execution was a holiday for everyone, and whole families came to watch it.
In that era, there was another terrible execution - this is a crucifixion. Thus, the Son of God Jesus Christ was executed. The man was stripped, beaten with sticks, thrown with stones, and then forced to carry his cross to the place of execution. On the hill, the cross was buried in the ground and a man was nailed to it with huge nails. The convict died long and painfully from thirst and painful shock. This method of execution was mainly used for criminals who committed more than one atrocity.
The worst executions in the world were in Russia. The victims of such reprisals were primarily those who committed crimes against the government, as well as those associated with sex, culture and religion. Since that time, such an expression has gone: to impale. This was the execution itself, when a man was impaled, slowly piercing his body through and through. People died of hellish pain for several days.
Ancient Egypt was also famous for its method of execution. This method was called “wall punishment”. The name speaks for itself. People were simply walled up alive in the wall and they died of suffocation. The composer Verdi, in his opera Aida, describes this moment when the main character and her lover are sentenced to such a punishment.
Celestial executions
The most brutal in human history were the Chinese. How the execution would take place, the executioners and judges themselves came up with. Their fantasies cannot be compared with others in their ingenuity. One way was to stretch the person over the young bamboo shoots. Since the plant itself grows quickly, for several days the bamboo entered a person like a spear and continued to grow in his body. The slow death of a person came in torment.
It was in China that they invented to bury a living person in the ground, and he died there of suffocation. Another way of torturing and suffering a person for a long time was death from a thousand cuts. If the criminal was sentenced to a year of torment, then the executioner extended this execution for a year. Every day he came to the criminal's cell, cut off a small part of the body. Then he immediately burned the wound with fire to stop the blood and the person did not die.
And day after day, the procedure was repeated for a year, until the person died. Moreover, if the executioner did not cope with the task at hand and the convicted person died before the appointed time, an equally painful death awaited him.
The worst executions in human history have been applied to Chinese women. They were simply cut in half. It is worth noting that they sawed them for any reason and because of any offense. The women were undressed, hung by their hands on rings, and sharp saws were fixed between their legs. Naturally, they could not hang for a long time and sawed themselves to the very breasts.
We have considered some of the most terrible executions in the entire history of mankind, but this is just a small part of the sophisticated fantasy of our ancestors. Various cultures also used such a method of execution as skinning alive. The person was simply tied to a table or a pillar and the skin was cut off in small pieces. All this happened in front of other people, and for many it was entertainment. Death came from blood loss and pain shock.
The execution of "Wheel" belongs to the same mass events. The victim was tied to a rotating wheel, and the executioner inflicted chaotic blows on various parts of the body. After such torture, a person was left to die in front of the entire crowd.
Execution of the criminal world
One of the last types of modern executions, originally from Africa. This method of execution was used repeatedly by criminal groups. The essence of the execution was that a person was put on rubber tires, doused with gasoline and set on fire. The man simply burned to death, screaming in pain.
The death penalty in modern civilized society is prohibited in many countries around the world, but countries such as China still apply this capital punishment for very serious crimes. Of course, such cruelty as in ancient times is no longer found. In modern society, the death penalty is used in the form of: shooting, lethal injection or the electric chair. Today, the criminal dies instantly.
With the development of civilization, human life has acquired value, regardless of social status and wealth. It is all the more awful to read about the black pages of history, when the law did not just deprive a person of life, but turned execution into a spectacle for the amusement of ordinary people. In other cases, the execution could be of a ritual or edifying nature. Unfortunately, there are similar episodes in modern history. We have compiled a list of the most brutal executions ever practiced by humans.
Ancient world executions
Scafism
The word "scathism" is derived from the ancient Greek word "trough", "boat", and the method itself went down in history thanks to Plutarch, who described the execution of the Greek ruler Mithridates at the behest of Artaxerxes, the king of the ancient Persians.First, the man was stripped naked and tied inside two dugout boats so that his head, arms and legs remained outside, which were thickly coated with honey. The victim was then forcibly given a mixture of milk and honey to induce diarrhea. After that, the boat was lowered into stagnant water - a pond or lake. Lured by the smell of honey and sewage, insects covered the human body, slowly devoured the flesh and laid the larvae in the resulting gangrenous ulcers. The victim remained alive for up to two weeks. Death came from three factors: infection, exhaustion and dehydration.
Execution by impalement was invented in Assyria (modern Iraq). In this way, the inhabitants of the rebellious cities and women who had an abortion were punished - then this procedure was considered infanticide. 
The execution was carried out in two ways. In one case, the convict was pierced with a stake, in the other, the tip of the stake passed through the body through the anus. People who were tormented were often depicted on bas-reliefs as edification. Later, this execution began to be applied by the peoples of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, as well as by the Slavic peoples and some Europeans.
Execution by elephants
This method was used mainly in India and Sri Lanka. Indian elephants lend themselves well to training, which was used by the rulers of Southeast Asia. 
There were many ways to kill a person with an elephant. For example, armor with sharp spears was worn on the tusks, with which the elephant pierced the criminal and then, while still alive, tore apart. But more often than not, elephants learned to press down on the convict with their feet and alternately tear off the limbs with their trunk. In India, a guilty person was often simply thrown at the feet of an angry animal. For reference, the Indian elephant weighs about 5 tons.
Surrender to the beasts
Behind the beautiful phrase “Damnatio ad bestias” lies the painful death of thousands of ancient Romans, especially among the early Christians. Although, of course, this method was invented long before the Romans. Usually lions were used for execution, less popular were bears, panthers, leopards and buffaloes. 
There were two types of execution. Often those sentenced to death were tied to a pillar in the middle of the gladiatorial arena and wild beasts were lowered onto it. There were also variations: thrown to a cage to a hungry animal or tied to its back. In another case, the unfortunate was forced to go out to battle against the beast. Of the weapons they had a simple spear, and of "armor" - a tunic. In both cases, many spectators gathered for the execution.
Death on the cross
The crucifixion was invented by the Phoenicians - an ancient people of seafarers who lived in the Mediterranean. Later this method was adopted by the Carthaginians, and then by the Romans. The Israelites and Romans considered death on the cross the most shameful, because in this way they executed hardened criminals, slaves and traitors. 
Before the crucifixion, the person was undressed, leaving only a loincloth. He was beaten with leather whips or with freshly cut rods, after which he was forced to carry a cross weighing about 50 kilograms to the crucifixion site. Having dug the cross into the ground by the road outside the city or on a hill, the person was lifted with ropes and nailed to a horizontal bar. Sometimes the convict's legs were pre-crushed with an iron bar. Death occurred from exhaustion, dehydration, or painful shock.
After the ban of Christianity in feudal Japan in the 17th century. crucifixion was used against visiting missionaries and Japanese Christians. The scene of the execution on the cross is present in Martin Scorsese's drama Silence, which tells exactly about this period.
Execution with bamboo
The ancient Chinese were champions of sophisticated torture and execution. One of the most exotic methods of killing is by stretching the culprit over the growing shoots of young bamboo. The sprouts made their way through the human body for several days, causing incredible suffering to the executed. 
Ling chi
"Ling-chi" is translated into Russian as "sea pike bites." There was another name - "death from a thousand cuts." This method was used during the reign of the Qing dynasty, and in this way high-ranking officials convicted of corruption were executed. There were 15-20 such people every year. 
The essence of ling-chi is the gradual cutting off of small parts from the body. For example, having chopped off one phalanx of a finger, the executioner cauterized the wound and then proceeded to the next. How many pieces should be cut off from the body, the court determined. The most popular verdict was cutting into 24 parts, and the most notorious criminals were sentenced to 3 thousand cutting off. In such cases, the victim was given opium to drink: so she did not lose consciousness, but the pain made its way even through the veil of drug intoxication.
Sometimes, as a sign of special mercy, the ruler could order the executioner to first kill the condemned with one blow and torture the corpse. This method of execution was practiced for 900 years and was banned in 1905.
Medieval executions
Bloody eagle
Historians have questioned the existence of the "Bloody Eagle" execution, but it is mentioned in Scandinavian folklore. This method was used by the inhabitants of the Scandinavian countries in the early Middle Ages. 
The harsh Vikings killed their enemies in the most painful and symbolic way. The man's hands were tied and his stomach was laid on a stump. The skin on the back was carefully cut with a sharp blade, then the ribs were pried with an ax, breaking them out in a shape that resembled eagle's wings. After that, lungs were removed from the still living victim and hung on the ribs.
This execution is shown twice in the TV series Vikings with Travis Fimmel (in episode 7 of season 2 and episode 18 of season 4), although viewers noted the contradictions between the serial execution and the one that was told in the folklore "Elder Edda".
"Bloody Eagle" in the TV series "Vikings"
Tearing by trees
Such execution was widespread in many regions of the world, including in Russia in the pre-Christian period. The victim was tied by the legs to two inclined trees, which were then abruptly released. One of the legends says that Prince Igor was killed by the Drevlyans in 945 - because he wanted to collect tribute from them twice. 
Quartering
The method was used as in medieval Europe. Each limb was tied to horses - the animals tore the sentenced person into 4 parts. In Russia, quartering was also practiced, but this word meant a completely different execution - the executioner alternately chopped off the legs with an ax, then the arms, and then the head. 
Wheeling
Wheeling as a form of the death penalty was widely used in France and Germany during the Middle Ages. In Russia, this type of execution is also known at a later time - from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The essence of the punishment was that at first the guilty person was tied to the wheel with his face to the sky, his arms and legs being fixed on the needles. After that, his limbs were broken and, as such, he was left to die in the sun. 
Flaying
Skinning, or skinning, was invented in Assyria, then spread to Persia and spread throughout the ancient world. In the Middle Ages, the Inquisition improved this type of execution - with the help of a device called the "Spanish tickler", a person's skin was torn into small pieces, which were easy to tear off. 
Welding alive
This execution was also invented in antiquity and received a second wind in the Middle Ages. Basically, counterfeiters were executed in this way. A person convicted of counterfeiting money was thrown into a cauldron of boiling water, tar or oil. This variety was quite humane - the offender quickly died from painful shock. More sophisticated executioners put the condemned in a cauldron of cold water, which was heated gradually, or slowly dipped him into boiling water, starting from the feet. The cooked muscles of the legs were moving away from the bones, and the person was still alive. 
Execution by rats
The prisoner's legs and arms were tied tightly to a metal bench, and a cage with rats with a broken bottom was placed on his stomach. Then the executioner brought the burner to the cage, and the animals in panic began to look for a way out. And he was only one - through the body of the victim. 
Modern executions
Dissolution in acid
It is generally accepted that the Sicilian Mafia began to dissolve victims in acid. The name of the killer-mafioso Giovanni Brusca is heard in this ransom. Suspecting that his comrade was "dripping" into the police, Brusca kidnapped his 11-year-old son and dissolved him alive in an acid-filled bathroom.This execution is also practiced among the extremists of the East. According to the former bodyguard of Saddam Hussein, he witnessed an acid execution: first, the victim's feet were lowered into a pool filled with a caustic substance, and then thrown entirely. And in 2016, militants of the banned ISIS organization dissolved 25 people in a cauldron of acid.
Cement boots
This method is well known to many of our readers on gangster movies. Indeed, they killed their enemies and traitors in such a cruel way during the mafia wars in Chicago. The victim was tied to a chair, then a basin filled with liquid cement was placed under his feet. And when he froze, the person was taken to the nearest reservoir and thrown off the boat. Cement boots instantly dragged him to the bottom to feed the fish. 
Death flights
In 1976, General Jorge Videla came to power in Argentina. He ruled the country for only 5 years, but remained in history as one of the most terrible dictators of our time. Among other atrocities of Videla are the so-called "flights of death". 
A man who opposed the tyrant's regime was pumped up with barbiturates and, unconscious, carried on board an airplane, then thrown down - certainly into the water.
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Every criminal must be punished! This is the opinion of all mankind, and many demand that the punishment be as harsh and terrible as possible. In ancient times, people were not satisfied with the deprivation of the life of a convicted person, they wanted to see how criminals suffer from pain. That is why various painful punishments were invented in the form of impaling, gutting, quartering or feeding insects. Today you will find out what the most cruel executions were used before.
Alcatraz is America's worst prison
In Alcatraz, one of the most famous prisons with strict rules and strict standards, inveterate criminals did not have a chance to experience the horror of the brutal methods of execution invented by judges and executioners. Although it is Alcatraz that is considered the worst prison in America, there was no equipment for carrying out the death penalty.
This type of execution was a favorite pastime of the Romanian ruler Vlad Tepes, better known as Vlad Dracula. On his order, the victims were impaled on a stake with a rounded top. The torture instrument was inserted through the anus several tens of centimeters deep, after which it was placed vertically and raised higher. Under the weight of its own weight, the victim slowly slid down. The cause of death when impaled was a rupture of the rectum, which led to the development of peritonitis. According to available data, about 20-30 thousand of the subordinates of the Romanian ruler died from this type of execution.
The idea of \u200b\u200bcreating an invention designed to fight heretics belonged to Ippolito Marsili. The instrument of torture was a wooden pyramid, towering on four legs. The naked accused was hung on special ropes and slowly lowered onto the tip of the pyramid. The execution process was suspended at night, and in the morning the torture was resumed again. In some cases, additional weights were hung on the accused's legs to increase the pressure. The agonizing suffering of the victims could last for several days. Death occurred as a result of severe suppuration and blood poisoning, since the tip of the pyramid was washed very rarely.
This type of execution is commonly encountered by heretics and blasphemers. The convict had to put on special metal trousers, in which he was hung from a tree. Sunburn is nothing compared to what a person had to experience. Hanging in this position, the victim became food for predatory animals.
Those who have gone through this punishment cannot be envied. The limbs of the offender were tied to opposite sides of the hanger, after which, using a special lever, the frame was stretched until the arms and legs began to come out of the joints. Sometimes the executioners turned the lever so hard that the victim simply lost limbs. To increase the suffering, thorns were also added under the victim's back.
This type of execution was used exclusively for women. For abortion or adultery, women were kept alive but deprived of their breasts. The sharp prongs of the execution instrument glowed red hot, after which the executioner tore the female breast into shapeless shreds with this device. Some French and German people have come up with other names for the instrument of torture: "Tarantula" and "Spanish spider".
Homosexuals, blasphemers, liars and women who did not give birth to a little man went through hellish torments. For those who sinned, a specially invented instrument of torture in the form of a pear with four petals was inserted into the anus, mouth or vagina. By rotating the screw, each petal slowly opened inside, delivering hellish pain and digging into the wall of the rectum, pharynx or cervix. Death as a result of such an execution almost never occurred, but it was often used in conjunction with other torture.
A person sentenced to a wheel ride most often died of shock and dehydration. The convict was tied to a wheel, and the wheel was set on a pole, so that the victim's gaze was directed to the sky. The executioner broke a man's legs and arms with a crowbar. The victim with broken limbs was not removed from the wheel, but left to die on it. Often, those sentenced to the wheel were also the object of eating for birds of prey.
With the help of a two-handed saw, homosexuals and witches were most often executed, although some murderers and thieves were subjected to such torture. The execution instrument was operated by two people. They were supposed to saw the convict hanging upside down. The blood flow to the brain caused by the position of the body did not allow the victim to lose consciousness for a long period of time. So the unheard-of torment seemed eternal.
The Spanish Inquisition was particularly brutal. The most popular method of torture for the investigative and judicial body, created in 1478 by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, was the head crusher. In this type of execution, the victim's chin was fixed on a bar, and a metal hat was put on his head. With the help of a special screw, the executioner squeezed the victim's head. Even if a decision was made to end the execution, a person was left with crippled eyes, jaw and brain for life.
A person's legs were placed in cutting pliers with sharp teeth, the number of which varied from 3 to 20, but the hands were also not ignored. Death as a result of torture with wire cutters did not occur, but the victim was severely injured. In some cases, to intensify pain, the teeth of the pliers were red-hot.
History knows, there are still many sophisticated methods of execution and judging by how cruel and terrible they were, one can only rejoice that none of them has survived to this day.
The attitude towards crimes and criminals in different eras and in different countries was different, so that the severity of punishment also varied. But if a person was sentenced to death, then it was very cruel. The most cruel executions in the history of mankind are terrifying, since the condemned could die in terrible torment for weeks.
10 most brutal executions in the world
1. Chinese execution. Oddly enough, the executioners treated women with particular cruelty. One of the worst executions in history was practiced in China. The condemned woman was stripped naked and, having deprived of support on her feet, was fixed between her legs with a saw.
Execution "Sawing"
The woman's hands were tied to the ring. The force of gravity drove the victim down onto the cutting edges of the saws, so that her body was slowly sawed from the bosom to the sternum. The reasons for such a terrible punishment are not clear to us, for example, the rice cooked by the cook turned out to be not as snow-white as the color of the owner's wisdom required.
2. Quartering. In Russia, and throughout Europe, in India, China, Egypt, Persia and Rome, this execution implied tearing or dismembering the human body into several parts. The parts themselves, after the execution was completed, were put on public display. There are many options for dividing the criminal into parts - he was torn apart by horses, bulls, treetops. In some cases, an executioner was used to chop off limbs.
Execution "Quartering" Moreover, it is impossible even to single out for what type of crimes such a punishment was imposed. It was often used when it was necessary to make the execution spectacular. Therefore, they quartered deserters and their families, state criminals, rapists, Christians in ancient Rome, etc.
3. "Tin Soldier". Prison "Alcatraz" went down in history as one of the most creepy prisons in the world due to executions. The management of the correctional institution had an unhealthy imagination, otherwise it is simply impossible to explain the appearance of the "tin soldier".
The convicted prisoner received an injection of heroin, after which he was poured with heated paraffin. At the same time, the guards put the person in a pose that was funny from their sick point of view. When the paraffin solidified, the person simply could no longer move - it turned out to be a "tin soldier". After that, the guards cut off the prisoner's limbs. Death from shock and blood loss lasted for hours, which the executed man endured in terrible torment.
4. "Cradle of Judas". Another no less brutal variant of the killing of prisoners in "Alcatraz" is "the cradle of Judas". The person sentenced to execution was put on a pyramid, his hands and body were fixed. The tip of the pyramid was placed in the anus or vagina, so that the structure gradually ripped apart the body. To speed up the process, weights were attached to the feet of the condemned, increasing the pressure.
This slow and painful death from blood loss and sepsis took up to several days, with weights the process accelerated to several hours. The leadership of the famous prison borrowed this barbaric method from the medieval inquisitors.
5. Keeling. A separate set of executions was used for pirates, the worst of which was keeling. The man was tied up and pulled on a rope under the keel of the ship.
Execution "Keeling" Since this lasted a long time, the man managed to choke, not to mention the blows against the keel itself, covered with sharp mollusks - the skin was ripped off the man. However, this type of punishment for disobeying the captain, who possessed absolute power on the ship, was also practiced in the English fleet.
6. Deserted island. Another pirate version of the execution known throughout the world - the rioters were not killed, but planted on a desert island that would feed the criminals.
Many unfortunate rebels remained for years to drag out a miserable existence on plots of land without adequate food and amenities.
7. Walking on the board. This version of execution by pirates is described in adventure novels.
Execution "Walking the plank" The robbers did not need the crew of the captured ship, so they went to sea. The plank was put up over the side of the ship, so that a man, having passed it, fell into the sea in the mouths of waiting sharks.
8. Execution for treason. In many cultures, the punishment for adultery for a woman is death. The methods of execution vary. In Turkey, an adulteress was sewn into a sack with a cat and thrashed on the sack. The distraught animal tore the woman apart, and the condemned woman died of blood loss and beatings.
In Korea, a traitor was forced to drink vinegar, and then the swollen body of an adulteress was beaten with sticks until the weaker sex died.
9. Executions in ISIS. The types of punishments adopted by ISIS (an organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation) also belong to the category of cruel ones, but they do not occupy the first place in the list of TOP-10 gruesome executions.
Representatives of the group willingly distribute in the media photos and videos of executions by burning, beheading, which is not much different from the medieval set of tortures and executions.
10. Executions for rape. Executions for rape are often much less brutal than for adultery, especially for the fairer sex. Nevertheless, the death of the rapist was threatened not only in the Middle Ages, it is still relevant now in Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Sudan.
However, the Muslim tort law sometimes causes strange decisions. There are precedents when, after a rape, a girl is executed by stoning, since the victim allegedly seduced the rapist. In other countries, for crimes of a sexual nature, the offender faces a punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 1 year to life imprisonment.
In Soviet times, rape by a repeat offender, rape that entailed serious consequences, or the rape of a minor victim was punishable by death. This law was in effect until 1997. By the way, a similar measure for the rape of a child in the US state of Louisiana was canceled only in 2008.
Man is an intellectual and sublime being, able to create truly great masterpieces. But not always the products of his creativity are put at the service of good, sometimes his inventions are terrifying with their sophisticated cruelty.
| N | Execution | Country of invention | First mention |
| 1 | Persia | 5th century BC e. | |
| 2 | Assyria | II millennium BC e. | |
| 3 | India | 1st millennium BC e. | |
| 4 | Ancient Rome | VI century BC e. | |
| 5 | Phoenicia | XI century BC e. | |
| 6 | Siam | XVI century | |
| 7 | China | 17th century | |
| 8 | Scandinavia | X century | |
| 9 | Egypt | III millennium BC e. | |
| 10 | Italy | XX century | |
| 11 | USA | XX century | |
| 12 | Argentina | XX century |
The name comes from the word "trough" or "boat" in ancient Greek. The concept itself became known thanks to Plutarch, who described the death of the Persian warrior Mithridates, who was executed in this way.
The execution consisted in stripping the victim naked and then tying it between two dugout boats so that only the head and legs remained outside. They were thickly smeared with honey. The man was then forcibly given honey and milk to drink until he had diarrhea. The boats were lowered into a reservoir of stagnant water. The smell of sewage and honey attracted numerous insects, which covered the body of the unfortunate, slowly devouring his flesh and laying larvae in it. Death occurred within two weeks.
There were two methods of execution. The person was impaled, inserted into the anus, and over time he exited through the chest. In another way, the victim was injected with a stake in the chest area. Such images are present on numerous bas-reliefs for the edification of contemporaries and descendants. Subsequently, this method of execution spread to the countries of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, as well as to the Slavic territories.
The method of execution is widespread in India and Sri Lanka. The Asian rulers knew very well that Indian elephants are well-trained and used it.
There were many ways to carry out the execution. They could put on armor with spears on the tusks, with which the condemned was pierced, after which the elephant tore him apart. But most often the elephants trampled on the condemned, tearing off their limbs with their trunk. In India, people who were sentenced were often thrown at the feet of an angry animal weighing about five tons.
In ancient Rome, Christians were executed in the arenas. Of course, this method of killing was better known much earlier and was not invented by the Romans. The massacre was attended by lions, less often buffaloes, leopards, bears and panthers.
A person could be tied to a pole in the middle of the arena and wild animals were lowered onto him. Also, the criminal was thrown into a cage to wild animals or tied tightly to the back of the animal. There were times when the victim was put up for battle against a wild beast. A short spear was folded for him with armament, a tunic in his uniform. In ancient Rome and in later times, such executions always attracted many spectators.
Crucifixion or execution on the cross
This method of execution was invented by the Phoenicians - a people of seafarers living in the Mediterranean. Subsequently, the crucifixion was used by the Carthaginians and the ancient Romans. On the territory of Rome and in Israel, such an execution was considered shameful, so recidivists, criminals, thieves and traitors were punished.
Before the act, the victim was stripped to a loincloth. After being beaten with leather whips or fresh twigs, he himself carried the cross to the place of execution, such a cross weighed up to 50 kilograms. After the installation of the cross, the criminal was lifted with ropes and nailed to the cross. In some cases, they could interrupt the legs with an iron bar. The victim died of dehydration, pain shock and exhaustion.
Bamboo
It is believed that the method of killing with bamboo was invented and first tested in ancient China, but there are no reliable sources on this topic. But there is evidence of the use of this kind of torture in Siam and the island of Sri Lanka.
The condemned man stretched himself out between the young, growing shoots of the plant. For several days, trunks of young bamboo were sprouting through his body, practically making holes in his internal organs. In rare cases, the executed man managed to live for one week, but this was already considered a rarity. Bamboo grew quickly and killed a person much earlier.
The name can be translated into Russian as “sea pike bites”. There was also another name for "death from a thousand cuts." For the first time, this method of execution began to be used during the reign of the Qing dynasty, execution was applied only in relation to high-ranking officials who were stealing. About 15-20 people were recruited per year.
The essence of the lynch is that parts of the prisoner were gradually cut off from the body. For example, an executioner chopped off a phalanx of a finger, burned a place and moved on to the next. The court itself decided how much and what to cut. Moreover, from 24 to 3000 such shreddings were prescribed. Sometimes, in the form of special mercy to the sentenced, the court ruled to first behead him, and then cut off the body parts. Banned only in 1905.
Historians doubt that such an execution actually existed, but there are references to it in the folklore of the peoples of Scandinavia. In the Scandinavian countries, this method of execution was used during the early Middle Ages.
This is how the harsh Vikings often executed their enemies. The convict was tied behind his back and laid face down on a stump. The executioner neatly cut the skin on the back, after which he lifted the ribs with an ax and broke them out. After that, they were somewhat shaped like the wings of an eagle. Then the lungs were removed from the victim's body and hung on the ribs.
After that, the victim died a painful death within 24 hours.
This variant of killing was developed in ancient times and found wide application in the Middle Ages. Basically, the execution was applied to counterfeiters. If he was convicted of counterfeiting money, he was thrown into a cauldron of boiling resin or water, where the unfortunate man was boiled alive. Such an execution was relatively humane, the death of the offender came from a severe pain shock. If a more sophisticated executioner came across, he put the criminal in a cauldron of cold water, the water gradually heated up, or the person was slowly lowered into this water, starting from the area of \u200b\u200bthe feet, when the water was already becoming boiling water. When a person was still alive and fully conscious, the cooked muscles moved away from his leg bones.
It is believed that this method of execution began to be used by the Sicilian mafia, the first to apply this method in practice was allegedly the mafia Giovanni Brusca.
Today, this method of reprisal is practiced by eastern extremists. Saddam Hussein's personal bodyguard once witnessed such a reprisal. According to him, the pool was first filled with a caustic substance, then the victim's legs were gradually lowered into it, after which it was dumped into it entirely. During 2016, ISIS fighters boiled 25 people in an acid pool.
Cement boots or Chicago coat
This method of execution is reflected in numerous TV series about the life of gangsters and mafia. Indeed, even during the mafia wars in Chicago, gangsters dealt with their enemies and traitors in this way. A person was tied to a chair, a basin was placed under his feet, into which liquid concrete was poured. When the cement hardened, the convict was brought into a reservoir and pushed into the water. Boots made of cement instantly carried the victim to the bottom, and it became food for fish.
In Argentina, in 1976, the dictator Jorge Videla came to power. During the five years of his leadership of the country, he gained fame as the most cruel tyrant of our time. The so-called "death flights" later became widely known as one of his most sophisticated atrocities.
A person who opposed the tyrannical regime was pumped up with drugs, after which he was taken to an airplane and, after gaining altitude, was thrown down, and always into the water.
