15 death penalty most cruel and painful

15 death penalty most cruel and painful


Buried Alive

death penalty has been used for individuals or groups. Victims are usually tied and then placed in a hole and buried. It was once the Nanjing Massacre during World War II, when Japanese troops bury alive Chinese civilians in what is called "Ten Thousand Corpse Ditch".
Snake Pit

One of the oldest forms of torture and the death penalty, the hole (space) are very common snake is a form of capital punishment. Prisoners were thrown into a deep hole with venomous snakes.

The Spanish Tickler

This torture device was commonly used in Europe during the Middle Ages. Used to tear the victim's skin, this gun can rip through anything, including muscle and bone. The victim was tied up naked, sometimes in public, and then the torturers began to torture them. Usually begins in the legs and work inward, neck and face are always saved for last.

Slow Slicing

Ling Chi, translated as "slow slicing" or "lingering death" was described as death by a thousand cuts. forms of torture and execution are similar to the Five Pains, but drawn out over a much longer period of time. Tormentors slowly cuts and eliminate some parts of the body, prolong life and victims of torture as long as possible. According to Confucian principles, the body can not cut a whole in the spiritual afterlife, making this form of execution that is still torturing the victim in the hereafter.

Burning at the Stake

Death by burning has been used as a form of capital punishment for centuries, often associated with crimes such as treason and witchcraft. Now regarded as a punishment cruel and unusual, but before the 18th century, who was burned at the stake was common practice. Victim tied to a large stake, often at the center of the city or anywhere else in the audience and then start a fire. It is regarded as one of the slowest way to die.

Necklacing

Common practice in South Africa, Necklacing consists of a rubber tire, filled with gasoline, forced around the victim's chest and arms, and then be burned. Necklacing essentially causes the body will turn into burning melt.

Execution by Elephant

in South and Southeast Asia, elephants have become the method of capital punishment for millennia. Animals were trained to execute two ways. Slowly in a prolonged torture or killing the victim almost immediately.

The Five Pains

one of Chinese capital punishment is relatively easy to understand. Starting with the victim's nose is cut off, then one arm and one leg, and finally, the victim was castrated and cut in half at the waist. The inventor of this sentence Li Si, a Prime Minister of China, eventually tortured and later executed in this way.

Colombian Necktie

Method of execution is one of the goriest. The victim's throat was slashed, often times with a knife but really any sharp objects that will be done, and then their tongues pulled out through an open wound. During La Violencia, a period of Colombian history is full of murder, this is the most common form of execution. It is used mainly to intimidate others who find the facts.

Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered

The punishment for high treason in England, which will be hung, drawn and quartered is common during the Middle Ages. Although abolished in 1814, form of execution was responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of deaths. The process is as follows. First, the victim was dragged on a wooden frame, called a hurdle to the place of execution. Second, the victim was hanged by the neck for a short time until almost dead (hanged). Third, castration occurs, after which, the contents of the stomach and genitals were burned in front of the victim. Finally, the body is divided into four separate parts and decapitated.

Cement shoes

Introduced by the American Mafia, the execution method involves placing the victim's feet in the blocks and then fill it with wet cement and then threw him into the water. The form of execution is still practiced today, and even coined the term "person who sleeps with the fishes" as a euphemism for the dead.

Guillotine

Guillotine is one of the most popular form of execution. Consists of a sharp knife tied to a rope, the victim's head is placed in the middle of the frame and then the knife fell to the flash, causing people who beheaded died almost instantly.

Republican Marriage

rather gruesome but it is certainly one of the most interesting. Originating in France, the form of execution was common in the French Revolution. Involves the binding together of two people naked, a male and female is usually of the same age, and drown them. In some cases, usually where the water is not available, couples will be tormented with the sword.

Crucifixion

method of execution is one of the most famous, obviously mainly due to the execution of Jesus Christ. Crucifixion consists of hands and feet of victims who nailed to the cross and then be lifted into the air. The victim then left to hang there until dead, which usually took days, and often die of thirst before anything else.

The Brazen Bull

The Brazen Bull, sometimes known as one of the most cruel methods of torture and execution out there. Designed in ancient Greece, in the form of a bull, with a door on the side that is open and locked. To begin execution, the victim was placed in a brass bull and a fire lit underneath. metal is heated until it is really hot, causing the victim to "bake to death". The bull was designed so that the screams of the victims will be heard the music for the enjoyment of the executioner.