Hot water

In 1531 Lambeth cook Richard Roose was found guilty of killing two people with poisoned gruel while unsuccessfully attempting to assassinate the Bishop of Rochester.

Paranoid Tudor King Henry VIII introduced a special new punishment for poisoners – being boiled alive. Roose was duly plunged into a vat of scalding water at London’s Smithfield where he “roared mighty loud”.

The vile practice was dropped in 1547.

Stone me

Another old English punishment was to be “pressed to death”.

This saw the accused tied down and then heavier and heavier stones placed on their body until they died or pleaded guilty or not guilty. Legally, unless they did so, they couldn’t be tried.

Amazingly some people opted to be crushed to death, thus avoiding official conviction and meaning their children could still inherit their lands. Catholic martyr Margaret Clitherow died this way in 1586.

It was only abolished in 1772.

Wheel squeal

Popular in Europe until the 1800s – and once used in Scotland to execute murderers – was being “broken on the wheel”. T

his gruesome practice involved the condemned individual being tied to a large wooden wheel. Their limbs would be broken by being hit with a large metal rod.

They’d then be strangled or simply left to die before being paraded on the wheel in public.

Wild horses

Being pulled apart by four horses was a method of execution reserved for regicide - the murder of a monarch.

The French Catholic zealot Francois Ravaillac (1578-1610), who assassinated King Henry IV of France, in Paris, in 1610, is depicted, top picture, being executed by this gruesome method.

Sharp exit

Roman Emperor Caligula liked to have criminals sawn in half, while in China the painfully slow “death by a thousand cuts” or “lingchi” was a real execution method up until 1905.

Totally roasted

The Ancient Greeks sometimes locked lawbreakers inside a huge bronze bull statue, then lit a fire underneath so that their fate was to be cooked alive.

Cannon law

Being “blown from a gun” involved the wrongdoer being tied to the mouth of a cannon which was then fired.

Dating back to the 16th century, it was used by British forces to execute rebels after the 1857 Indian Mutiny.

Just wild

Elephants were once used to crush crooks to death in parts of Asia, while in Britain a murderous 12th century monk was just one of those sentenced to be torn apart by wild horses.

The once widespread method saw nags attached to each limb, then made to run.

Sweet justice?

As well as famously throwing people to the lions and burying them alive, the Romans sometimes left criminals stuffed in a tree trunk with just their head sticking out, which was covered in milk and honey.

They were left out in the open to be attacked by critters such as bees until they died.

Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/historys-oddest-executions-boiling-alive-24160577

That stupid nigga that killed hinny deserve the "wild horses" prosecution

The Europeans really had some ideas of painful deaths meted out to lawbreakers in the medieval times.

Another painful death was the bloodied eagle which the Vikings or North Europeans used on murderers. The person would kneel and the executioner would open up their spine, bring out their lungs and hang them on the victim's shoulders. I saw it in the Vikings series.

Arkmanbuddy:
The Europeans really had some ideas of painful deaths meted out to lawbreakers in the medieval times.

Another painful death was the bloodied eagle which the Vikings or North Europeans used on murderers. The person would kneel and the executioner would open up their spine, bring out their lungs and hang them on the victim's shoulders. I saw it in the Vikings series.

Men that shit is scary Af

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The life of man here on earth is truly solitary, nasty, brutish, and short.

AlhajiNatty:
The life of man here on earth is truly solitary, nasty, brutish, and short.

Do not forget "extremely wicked, unjust and evil"

DrBrainstorm:

Men that shit is scary Af

They were very evil then. Bet you did not know they also had a law that a landlord is the first to sleep with the wife of his tenants on the day he marries her on his land or that they killed any who stole an apple.

Now we burn suspected or red-hand caught criminals alive.
It's same sad experience, only that we don't get to see much blood now.

T

I prefer the blood eagle.
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AlhajiNatty:
The life of man here on earth is truly solitary, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thank God for modernization.
In the olden days, people died like fowls literally.
From diseases with no cure to senseless killings to wars etc. Those years, if you had simple malaria, just know you're on your way to Valhalla on a slow ride.

Arkmanbuddy:
The Europeans really had some ideas of painful deaths meted out to lawbreakers in the medieval times.

Another painful death was the bloodied eagle which the Vikings or North Europeans used on murderers. The person would kneel and the executioner would open up their spine, bring out their lungs and hang them on the victim's shoulders. I saw it in the Vikings series.

I couldn't bring myself to watch that particular episode..

Damn

Our leaders deserve all of these

Politicians deserve every bit of the above

longetivity:
Buhari and his followers deserves this type of punishments after 2023

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This is the type of punishment gays and lesbians deserve.

buhari and his useless supporters deserve all of these deaths

So many ways to die

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Arkmanbuddy:
The Europeans really had some ideas of painful deaths meted out to lawbreakers in the medieval times.

Another painful death was the bloodied eagle which the Vikings or North Europeans used on murderers. The person would kneel and the executioner would open up their spine, bring out their lungs and hang them on the victim's shoulders. I saw it in the Vikings series.

The bloodied eagle is considered controversial by historians I hope you know that.

AlhajiNatty:
The life of man here on earth is truly solitary, nasty, brutish, and short.

Hobbes, you must have done government or political science

SegFault:

Hobbes, you must have done government or political science

Correct guy!
Actually, I did both. Opportune to have drank from the ocean of sage like Okwudiba Nnoli while studying the later in the greenish and picturesque Nsukka enclave.

AlhajiNatty:

Correct guy!
Actually, I did both. Opportune to have drank from the ocean of sage like Okwudiba Nnoli while studying the later in the greenish and picturesque Nsukka enclave.

Good to see people using their education even though the country makes it look like it's a waste.

SegFault:

The bloodied eagle is considered controversial by historians I hope you know that.

Controversial in what sense, that it was a lie?

Crucifixion was still the most painful, agonizing kind of capital punishment from antiquity. More particularly, Roman crucifixions.

Arkmanbuddy:


Controversial in what sense, that it was a lie?

No now, historical evidence of the method of execution was from writings which were ambiguous and could mean anything, remember seeing it on YouTube, learning the old English of that time does not guarantee your knowledge of their patterns of speech or what they meant, remember that figurative methods of writing are as old as time. That's the problem.

Alusiizizi:
Crucifixion was still the most painful, agonizing kind of capital punishment from antiquity. More particularly, Roman crucifixions.

There were others worse than that.

Would this stop people from still doing heinous crimes now?