HISTORY'S METHODS OF EXECUTION THAT WERE GRUESOME

CRUSHING

This is pretty much exactly what the elephants would do except in

Europe and America it was typically used to extract a plea.

Every the time the victim refused, more weight was added to the their chest.

CEMENT SHOES

The preferred method of execution by the American mafia,

your feet were placed in cement blocks and you were thrown in the river.

REPUBLICAN MARRIAGE

Another form of execution by drowning, rather than using cement

blocks, the French would tie a man and a woman together

before throwing them in the water.

GUILLOTINE

Possibly the least violent on this list, the guillotine was the first method

of execution operating under the assumption that capital punishment

was intended to end lives rather than inflict pain. The last execution

by guillotine in France was in 1977.

WALKING THE PLANK

Although the intention was for the victim to drown, they were many

eaten by the sharks that tended to follow the ships instead.

SCAPHISM

This ancient Persian method of execution involved leaving the victim

in a tree trunk with only their head, hands, and feet protruding.

They would then be thrown in a stagnant pond and as their faeces

accumulated insects would begin to breed in within their skin.

Death could often take up to 2 weeks.

COLOMBIAN NECKTIE

Practiced by many drug cartels in South America, this involved

cutting open the victim’s throat and pulling their tongue out

through the opening.

BRAZEN BULL

Famously used in Italy, it was just large enough to fit one person

in its torso. A fire would be lit beneath it and as the person slowly

cooked their screams would be acoustically converted to

“bull sounds” emitted from the mouth and smoke from their

body would be expelled from the nose.