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1. 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 of the open and locked. To start the execution, the victim was placed in a brass bull and a fire lit beneath it. metal is heated until really hot, causing the victim to "bake until death". Bull's designed so that the screams of the victims will be heard the music for the enjoyment of the executioner.


2. Crucifixion



method of execution is one of the most popular method, obviously mainly caused by the execution of Jesus Christ. The crucifixion of victims of the hands and feet are nailed to the cross and then be lifted into the air. Victim then left to hang there until death, which is usually up to days and days, and often die of thirst before anything else.

3. Republican Marriage



not yet clear is one of the most interesting. Originating in France, the form of execution is common in the French Revolution. Involves the binding together of two naked men, a men and women are usually of the same age, and drowned them. In some cases, usually where water is not available, couples will be punished with the sword.


4. 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 with a crash, causing people to die almost instantly severed.

5. Cement shoes




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


6. Hanged, Drawn, and quartered



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

7. Colombian Necktie



This execution method is one of the sadistic gan. Victim's throat was slashed, often times with a knife, but there really sharp objects that will be done, and then their tongues pulled out through an open wound. As time 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.


8. The Five Pains



one of china death penalty 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. Inventor of this punishment Li Si, a Prime Minister of China, finally tortured and then sentenced to death in this way.

9. 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 tortured in ways that berkepanjanganh or killing the victim almost immediately.


10. 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 fire melted.

11. Burning at the Stake



Death by burning has been used as a form of capital punishment over the centuries, often associated with crimes such as treason and witchcraft. This is now regarded as a punishment cruel and unusual, but before the 18th century, who was burned at the stake was common practice. Victims tied to a big stake, often at the center of the city or anywhere with the audience and then lit a fire. This is regarded as one of the slowest way to die.


12. Slow slicing



Ling Chi, translated as "slow slicing" or "death of the remaining" was described as death by a thousand cuts. forms of torture and execution that are similar to the Five Pains, but drawn on a much longer period of time. Tormentors slowly wound and removed some parts of the body, prolong life and the victims of torture as long as possible. According to Confucian principles, the body cut can not be whole in the spiritual afterlife, a form of execution victims who were tortured in the afterlife.

13. The Spanish Tickler



This torture device is commonly used in Europe during the Middle Ages. Used for skin tear victims, this weapon could tear anything, including muscle and bone. Victims tied up naked, sometimes in public, and then the torturers began to torture them. Usually begins in the legs and work in, neck and face are always saved for last.


14. Snake Pit




One of the oldest forms of torture and punishment Dead, hole (space) is very common snake is a form of capital punishment. Prisoners were thrown into the deep hole with a rattlesnake.


15. Buried Alive



death penalty has been used for individuals or groups. Victims usually tied and then placed in a hole and buried. Once the Nanjing Massacre during World War II, when Japanese troops bury alive Chinese civilians in the so-called "Ten Thousand Corpse Ditch".