People are capable of unprecedented cruelty.
Human beings are inventive, especially the murder of their own kind. Reading the description of these terrible kinds of punishment – both ancient and quite modern, don’t forget to rejoice in the fact that you’re meant to learn about them exclusively from the outside.
Impalement
Since the time of ancient Babylon impalement was considered one of the most terrible executions. It is widely practiced not only in Babylon but also in Russia – especially in relation to people who have committed crimes against the government and the state, especially in time of war, but also for other offences – related to culture, religion and sex. Man was put on a pointed upright pole or stake, which slowly pierced the body of the unfortunate through or, going all the way, stuck in the bone. Condemned men died within a few days, undergoing inhumane suffering to the end.
Penalty with milk and honey
This invented in ancient Persia penalty prolongs the suffering of the victim for weeks and months. She was like a Breakfast buffet, which no one would like to be. Condemned men were placed in the boat, holding the body between the two boards so that people could not get out. After that, he started to feed exclusively with milk and honey. If condemned men refused to eat, he was poked with a stick or needle in the eye as long as he did not agree to continue a terrible meal. The body of the unfortunate too, watered with milk and honey. Soon people were immersed in their own excrement, which, combined with a sweet honey smell, attracting swarms of insects that slowly and cruelly clawed body put to death until he ate it almost entirely.
Rat torture
If you watch “Game of thrones”, you know what it is about. This torture was often applied in order to obtain the necessary information, rather than for punishment. It was widespread in the middle Ages. It needed a little – just the rat and the cage. Choby to fully appreciate the elegance of the design, we must remember that rats have a huge will to live. In addition, they are able to chew through anything – of course, if you give them enough time. Before beginning the torture of the unfortunate tied up, tight primatv to his body a cage with a rat. Then the cell started to heat up, and the rat began to frantically search for shelter. They were soft, unprotected abdomen of the victim. The rat probed the inside put to death until he died in agony. Then fat and happy rodent for a job well done got free.
“The necklace”
This terrible and, worst of all, it is a modern form of punishment hails from South Africa. It is not known who invented it first: whether one of the rebel groups, whether representatives of the criminal world or even the world of politics. However, we know that all of these groups used it repeatedly. “The necklace” is a rubber tyre which was filled with gasoline and put on his neck a accident or pulled on his belt, then set on fire. People were burned alive in the melting rubber, the clouds of stifling smoke. Thus the victim could remain alive for up to 20 minutes, unsuccessfully calling for death as a deliverance.
Elephant execution
As a rule, elephants behave very carefully and politely. But these giant animals can become a deadly weapon. Of course, not on their own. But in medieval India elephants specially trained to torture and kill the condemned. Typically, this penalty was applied to the soldiers of the enemy, but she was subjected to and its own citizens who have committed certain crimes. The elephants were trained to trample the person until he dies. Trained thus the elephant could crush the unfortunate chest, skull or any other part of the body, in accordance with the orders of the owner. The worst in this execution was that a trained elephant could kill a human quickly, and could do it slowly, prolonging the agony of the sufferer.
“Tie”
This method of execution was demonstrated to us in the TV series “Hannibal”. Fortunately, it never existed in reality because the to use it is physically impossible. In this execution character wanted his victim cut the neck and podergivani through the tongue accident. But really to make it impossible: language is attached much higher in the mouth, and it is impossible to push through the throat. Theoretically, it is possible to do with a man with record long tongue and while voluntarily helping torturer – but it is hardly possible to imagine such a picture in reality. However invented by the writers of the series – obviously people with a sick imagination! – this execution made a lasting impression on the audience and even entered urban folklore.
Bamboo torture
This terrible execution was invented in China, but probably also existed in Japan. It was used in modern times, using, in particular, to prisoners of war during the Second World war. The fact that bamboo is the fastest growing plant on Earth, capable of the day to grow a meter or more. The torturers used this property of plants to inflict maximum suffering on the condemned. Put to death the body was stretched horizontally above the young bamboo shoots. Growing shoots sprouted through the victim’s body, piercing. like a sharp spear. The victim could stay alive more than one day, experiencing neither the incomparable suffering.
Triple penalty
This form of punishment was widely used in England in the thirteenth century. To start, the condemned was tied to a horse and dragged through the streets to the gallows. There he hung, but seconds before death choking victim was released from the loop,cutting the rope. Then the sufferer castrated, burning severed body parts in front of him. If at that time he was still alive, its finally finished, cutting off the head. But after his death, a mockery of the body was executed tied hands and legs to four horses and drove them in different directions. Such executions were subjected, as a rule, the murderers, on account of which there was more than one victim.
“Copper bull”
In the dark middle Ages it was not only a penalty but also a favourite entertainment of the rough crowd. Sentenced to death had his tongue cut out and locked him inside a hollow copper statue in the shape of a giant bull. Then, under the statue fueled the fire, which the sufferer actually roasted alive. Exit from hell’s frying pan was not, and even shout put to death, deprived of his tongue could not. The only thing he could – racing to the wall in a vain search of the exit. The bull was shaking so violently that it seemed alive. A wild sight it seemed not knowing the values of humanism to the people of the middle Ages are so funny, that attracted a much larger crowd than any other kind of penalty.
“Bloody angel”
This type of penalty is known as the “bloody eagle”, was widely practiced by the Vikings until the XIII-XIV centuries. Her victims were soldiers and kings. Condemned men were tied up and laid on the ground face down. Put to death then cut up the skin on the back and started one after the other to cut through the ribs with an ax, so that the debris sticking out from the back in the form of monstrous wings. No matter how awful, then, put to death, as a rule, was still alive. Then the wounds were sprinkled with salt and, finally, through the gaping wound in the back tore from the body the heart and lungs, throwing them on top of “angel wings”. And finally, the most incredible thing: the Vikings, this form of punishment was considered so honorable that sometimes they asked the enemies to make it a “bloody eagle”, thus showing contempt for pain and death.
Excoriation
Excoriation aimed to not only kill the victim but to cause her the maximum of suffering, so it was more torture than execution – though this torture, for obvious reasons, always ended in death. However, perhaps not always: for example, the Assyrians used to skin children of their enemies in the eyes of the parents – and even for those it was clearly worse than his own death, but they remained alive. In this case, each of the many peoples who practiced this form of execution, had their own customs about where it ought to flay the skin: the Chinese are usually stripped her face of medieval Europeans with the chest, while the Assyrians used to butcher prey whole.
Ash penalty
Not too spectacular, rarely used, e
the penalty, however, was particularly painful for the victim. The man was locked in a small room, full of ashes, and died painfully by suffocation, and not in minutes or hours, as the victim of a fire and for many days and even weeks.
Stoning
Atated executions were extremely sexist character. As a rule, he raped the woman is guilty of adultery, even if her guilt was not proven. However, sometimes victims of stoning were men and even children. As a rule, the victim was buried in the ground to the waist: it does not allow the victim to move and deprived of hope for salvation. Then the crowd began to throw stones at the condemned men, and strictly observing the rules: the stones were not supposed to be too large, so the victim did not die immediately, but too small is also not good. As a rule, after hundreds of hits of medium size boulders in the head and chest of death. The worst thing in this kind of punishment, ask them to apply today.
Shot out of a cannon
This form of punishment was usually applied to soldiers guilty of mutiny or desertion. The first information about it date to the XVI century, while it existed at least three centuries. Sentenced, primaziale back to the mouth of the gun, and when fired he was off his head, which sometimes flew for a few tens of meters. First, as far as known to historians, this execution was used by the Emperor of Ceylon, however, practiced it, and in the army of the British Empire. There is information that it is used today in the ever-warring Afghanistan.
“Jaws of a crocodile”
This form of execution in medieval Europe, was applied to murderers, to kill for money. “Crocodile jaws” called the iron mechanism, reminiscent of ticks, indeed resembled the jaws of a crocodile, and filled with razor sharp, blades-“teeth”. Having heated jaws hot, the executioner closed them on the penis of the victim and tore him. If condemned men did not die from pain shock, he in a few minutes he passed away from massive bleeding from prervanniy artery. From the description it is clear that this form of punishment was meant only for men: it is true that medieval legislators and could not conceive that women can elect the path of an assassin.
