Most horrific executions in history.

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Original post by Rational Thinker

Indeed. I thought this was quite an effective parody.
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I'll watch it when I get back, I'm afraid I have to go and do some Christmas shopping now

oh and PRSOM :tongue:

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Rational Thinker

Original post by russellsteapot

Scaphism looks pretty grim.

The description of the execution of Robert-François Damiens in Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault is also rather unpleasant. Involved several stages of localised burning, molten metal torture, dismemberment and culminating in what was left of him being burnt at the stake.

I agree.

Reply 42

KimKallstrom

Original post by Rational Thinker

I wonder whether that would be more painful than burning at the stake, if such a diabolical sensation can be measured.

Oh yes, the Japanese army carried out some attrocities that were so grotesque, that they repelled Nazi attatches!

Dracul, the count on which the Dracula character was based on, put off the Ottomans by impaling thousands of enemies on stakes and placing said stakes outside city walls. Some had the stakes up their backsides, some were placed on them upside down through the mouth and out the other end.

However apparently none were killed first...........

It did the trick. Ottoman forces turned right around at the sight of them.

Reply 43

PopaPork

I cann't remember the names

1) opening up the lower abdomen and removing the lower organs and placing them in a pot and them boiling them (a slow and painfully way to go)

2) the stake. the trick was to use the person weight to allow the stake to slowly work it's way up the body and out through the upper half. As the organs are moved out of the way a person could stay alive for quite some time

3) death by a thousand cuts

Reply 44

Habsburg

It is interesting that a common theme was that the worst crime one could commit was treason - this is even seen in the Christian tradition, where the ultimate crime of Beelzebub was to rebel against God himself. As such, the very worst punishments were often reserved for treason in its various forms - as well as regicides and petty treasons (killing one's master or liege, or a wife killing her husband or a clergyman killing his bishop), we can include things like patricide as well.

(1) Hanging, drawing and quartering in England. For reasons of public decency, women guilty of treason would be burnt at the stake instead (for a brief period, women found guilty of poisoning their husbands would be boiled alive, but this was never as popular as on the Continent).
(2) Slow slicing, also called 'death by a thousand cuts', or língchí in China until the early 20th century. I will not post it here for obvious reasons, but there is actually a photograph on Wikipedia (be warned, graphic and all that).
(3) The punishment (though not fixed) that became customary for French regicides, as described in reference to Robert-François Damiens by Michel Foucault in his book Discipline and Punish. The condemned had his flesh torn from him with pincers. The wounds had burning sulphur, molten lead, hot wax, and boiling oil poured in to them. The hand with which he had attempted his crime was burnt off, and his limbs were tied to horses to be torn apart. Apparently, they had to hack at his sinews a little for it to work. His torso, which a skilled executioner would ensure was still living, was then burnt at the stake.

Although not strictly speaking an execution, peine forte et dure sounds rather grim. It was a method of torture wherein those who stood mute in court were effectively crushed to death.

Reply 45

Umar1

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Reply 46

Origami Bullets

Original post by Rational Thinker

Horrdenous but as bad as this?
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They're both up there - but personally I reckon that the amende honorable is worse than the Boats.

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Bump.

Hanging, drawing and quartering is pretty grim.

Reply 49

Pepsi_cola1357

Original post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Death by 1D.

Being tied to a chair and gagged, whilst being forced to listen to an endless loop of Best Song Ever until the condemned gives up hope from the torture and just passes away.

similar but with any elton john or queen song ever written !!!

Reply 50

That Bearded Man

The execution of those who took part in Easter Rising in Dublin.

Look at James Connolly

Reply 51

Al-Mudaari

Original post by Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Stoning still happens legally in Saudi Arabia, women get pelted in public executions if they are caught looking an unmarried man.

In the UK, they chop you into 50 pieces and feed you to dogs if you look at a married men.

Also, they only do this to women.

Reply 52

Solemn Rain

http://touch.dailymotion.com/video/x4na0q_kaiji-forced-kneeling-machine_shortfilms

Being roasted and forced to kneel.

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Reply 53

lamp-y

Original post by Al-Mudaari

In the UK, they chop you into 50 pieces and feed you to dogs if you look at a married men.

Also, they only do this to women.

oh – so you are a troll, I was wondering about that

Reply 54

IShootLikeAGirl

The bronze bull was a pretty grim creation of the Greeks. Being burnt alive does not sound like a good way to die

Reply 55

Dalek1099

Original post by Rational Thinker

In my opinon

1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

2) Burned alive.

3) Immurement. This is being imprisoned and left to starve to death.

4) Being buried alive.

I think number 2 should be lower because you would be dead pretty quick, which means the execution isn't half has bad.

Reply 56

Origami Bullets

Original post by That Bearded Man

The execution of those who took part in Easter Rising in Dublin.

Look at James Connolly

He was executed by firing squad. Not nice, but as executions go I wouldn't say that it was particularly gruesome either tbh

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Reply 57

Kallisto

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These are the most brutal executions which I have heard from history:

Impalement - an executions from the 15th century by which the delinquent is sitting on a stake and is penetrated step by step.
Death by sawing - I guess there is nothing to be added. Very brutal!
Execution by elephant - an execution from India by which a delinquent puts the head on a stone which will trample by an elephant's food.