5 Barbaric Execution Methoda



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1.Lingchi (Slow Slicing)
Lingchi, also known as “death by a thousand cuts”, was a brutal method of execution used in China in which the victim would suffer a multitude of cuts before eventually dying of blood loss. Executioners were tasked with making as many cuts as possible and removing slices of flesh without killing the victim. This practice started in the 10th century and was outlawed in 1905, making it one of the few execution methods for which photos of it being practiced actually exist!
2. Execution by Elephant
Execution by elephant, also known as gunga rao, was a common method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, where Asian elephants were used to crush, dismember or torture captives in public executions. The animals were trained and versatile, able to kill victims immediately or to torture them slowly over a prolonged period. The practice was eventually suppressed by European empires that colonized the region in the 18th and 19th centuries. The practice was also occasionally used by Western Powers, such as Ancient Rome and Carthage, particularly to deal with mutinous soldiers.
3. The Breaking Wheel
The breaking wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through Middle Ages into the early modern period, by breaking the bones of a criminal and/or bludgeoning them to death. The practice was abolished in Bavaria in 1813 and in the Electorate of Hesse in 1836; the last known execution
4. Impalement
Impalement involved hammering a sharpened stick into a criminal’s body via the anus (or vagina) before then hoisting up the criminal and letting gravity pull the criminal slowly back down to the ground. The stick would eventually protrude through the victim’s head or shoulders or back, killing him, but not before he suffered hours of humiliating, excruciating pain as a sharpened stick tore slowly through his body via the initial point of entry through his body. Ouch!
5. Rat Torture
This is the use of rats to torture a victim by encouraging them to attack and eat the victim alive. A bunch of rats are placed on a criminal’s stomach, chest, or buttocks and covered with a pottery bowl, open side face-down. Then, hot charcoal was placed on the other end of the bowl, so that the rats would have no choice but to eat through the victim if they wanted to escape the heat.

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