Worst Punishments in the History of Mankind Compilation

There are many horrible devices from the distant past that were intended to inflict excruciating pain or outright kill their target. Some of them, like the bronze bull, a bronze statue in which the victim would be burned alive, sound pretty scary, the breast ripper or a couple of Heartbreak are other examples of things you know you wouldn't want to happen. , but let's say you were held captive and those in charge threatened to take out the wheel, Catherine's wheel, you might think well, that doesn't actually sound that bad. If we were in for a big surprise, we will explain why this episode of the infographic shows Catherine's wheel, the

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Catherine's Wheel is named after Saint Catherine of Alexandria, who is the patron saint of those with academic or philosophical inclinations and prevents unforeseen events. death now there is no mention of this individual before the 9th century, although he supposedly lived in the 4th century, so it is suspected that he did not really exist, however the story of him was well known and began in Egypt. She was believed to be noble, if not a Princess as well as very studious, however, some might consider it unwise for her to stand up to protest the errors of the then Roman Emperor of the time Maxentius, who relentlessly persecuted Christians.

Maxentius supposedly selected several scholars to engage in a battle of wits with the young Catherine, but the wise men eventually lost as an added insult while she was imprisoned for her words Catherine managed to convert many of Maxentius's soldiers and even his wife to the christian religion needless to say that didn't exactly sit well with maxentius after the torture in which she declared jesus christ her husband, she was sentenced to death, that's when the wheel came into play, which was the device of execution, the story goes that she shattered upon touching her and therefore, in his desperation, the emperor finally beheaded her and she was then taken to Mount Sinai, curiously later, Saint Joan of Arc identified Catherine's voice as one of several he heard, so what is this wheel that Catherine had miraculously escaped from but which killed many of the less fortunate?

Another name that is known for the broken wheel will probably be To give you some ideas, it was a wheel made of wood similar, if not the same, as those used on carriages, in addition to being made of heavy wood, these wheels were equipped with a metal edge, although they were sometimes modified so that they could cause more damage. With protruding iron blades, these enormous wheels were dropped on prisoners all over their bodies, breaking bones upon impact. Another method was to tie a person to the wheel and hit their limbs with hammers or iron bars while the wheel spun for as long as possible. the bones were shattered, that was the only thing that mattered, the exact number of wheel falls or hammer blows had already been determined beforehand, this would depend on the magnitude of the convict's crimes, such as whether they committed acts of robbery or murder of the

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criminals, efforts were made to better combine their punishment with the crimes, for example, sometimes sharpened pieces of wood were placed under the victim to provoke even more torture, on the other hand, for those who wanted to avoid what Worse, they could deliver a fatal blow by falling the wheel or striking it with the iron.

Unfortunately, most were not so lucky and breaking the bone was just the beginning or step one of the next two or three. The bodies from the first step were usually passed over the spokes of another wheel, while this would be difficult to do with a For a normal person, it was much easier once their limbs were broken, then the wheel was fastened to a post and was displayed for all to see, much like those who had suffered crucifixion, at this point some would be cut or strangled which would ultimately be painful in their suffering. others would be placed over a burning fire or, alternatively, thrown directly into one;

It was even possible to hang the individual while in the wheel, although this option was usually reserved for those who had been convicted of the worst crimes or multiple serious crimes. crimes the executioners in charge had no mercy even for the souls of those whom they had killed the bodies they simply left them where they had been thrown or hung to be devoured by the beaks, teeth and claws of wild animals many believe that this would prevent the souls from ever finding eternal peace, it would also serve as a dire warning to others, but there was one small hope for those sentenced to death by Catherine's wheel and that was if they somehow disconnected or if the wheel somehow failed to function. do his job.

Under these circumstances, it was considered divine intervention and the conflict's life would ultimately be saved; However, this was very unlikely; It happened so rarely that, when it did happen, it would become the subject of religious paintings depicting the miracle, most often those to whom this sentence was given never. They came to the works of art, furthermore, their suffering could continue seemingly endlessly before they died. There are stories of a murderer in the 14th century who lasted for three days before expiring on another occasion, a man called Bonadius lasted four full days. Days and Nights, a more questionable account of a German serial killer in the 16th century claimed that he stayed alive with the help of alcohol for nine days, but again, this latter account is most likely just another legend about Catherine or the broken wheel.

It's a pretty gruesome device, it was used as a method of public execution in Europe from ancient times to early modern times. Bavaria used it until it was banned in 1813 and it is suspected that its last use was in Prussia in 1841. We are all very grateful, as are moderns. Everyday criminals who have eventually fallen out of favor with most societies are welcome back to our macabre series of shows featuring some of the worst things people have done to each other in the name of punishment, while in others programs we have talked about instruments of torture and murder.

You could say that they are basic claws that tear flesh, clubs that break bones. You could say that this particular instrument of horribly inhumane torture was put together by creative people, as with almost everything we've talked about in this series it would be unimaginable. suffer this treatment, but hey, we are not going to say that it is worse than having hungry rats bite your intestines, like that punishment, although this was slow, making hanging or cutting off the head seem very merciful in comparison, this form of execution was created by the ancient Greeks it had a few names and could also be called the bronze bull or the Sicilian bull, but how do we know anything about it?

One of the answers is because it was written about something called the bibliotheca historica, which translates as historical library consists of many books written by an ancient Greek historian called diodorus seculas in these books you will find his version of the

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of the world, from what happened in ancient egypt until the leader alexander the great, much of it is still intact but some parts of the series are missing or are in fragments in one of these books that lord sequels wrote about the brazen bull and this is what he said , the guy who invented it was an inventor by trade and was named dangerous of Athens, he said before he built this somewhere between 570 and 554 BC.

C., he actually launched the idea that he was what you could call a creative technologist from the past who was looking for funding. He obtained that funding from a man named Phalorus, the tyrant of the acrogas, given his terrifying title. I would not be surprised to know that this man was said to be very cruel in some accounts of his life it is written that he enjoyed torture and even ate children. We should say that the Encyclopedia Britannica cites research that says he was. He is as cruel as some people have written in any case, it seems that he commissioned the construction of the bronze bull, so how could one perish on a bronze bull?

Well, it was certainly something conjured up by a creative but sadistic imagination. It was said to be the same size as a bull, but shaped like bronze and with an opening where a man could enter, then a fire was lit under the bowl and the man was slowly roasted to death, but get it, it was done. so when the man howled in agony. His screeches would emanate through specially distorted tubes built into the bowl, so the impression the viewer would get would be that of an animal roaring in pain. This might have been the fun part for someone like the acroga tyrant.

The smoke would come out through the holes in the bull's head. nose and that nose was filled with incense, since burned bodies do not smell as good, the bones that remained would later become bracelets, so the story goes that when the idea was launched because it was dangerous, he said he told this to the tyrant Folaris, the occupier. He will scream and roar in ceaseless agony and his cries will reach you through the flutes like the most tender, the most pathetic and the most melodious of bellows. Your victim will be punished and you will enjoy the music when the bowl is finished.

The followers told the inventor to go inside the bowl. Which is proving the sound, but some sources say he lit the fire and the inventor died there, others say he pulled him out but then killed him by pushing him off a cliff, it seems that despite all his hard work, Peligrous was killed, but perhaps not because Falris did not want to pay even though it is said that Falrus liked cruelty it is written that he said this to Peligrous after learning of the method of execution, his words disgusted me, I carry the idea of ​​such ingenious cruelty and I resolve to punish the artificer in kindly I told him if your art can really produce this effect to enter inside you and pretend to roar and we will see if the flutes will produce the music that you described by the way it is written that after his fall Falrus was also killed by inside. the bull, so the inventor and the commissioner were killed by their own hands in a way that the word of the brazen bull was passed down and stories were written and linked the device with these two men, the inventor and the tyrant, but the story of the ball no.

Let's not stop there, the Romans said they liked the brass bowl and if you've seen our other programs on Roman torture you won't be surprised to learn that some people wouldn't have had many qualms about roasting a man to death. and enjoying his screams, we could see the story of a man called Saint Eustis, it was said that he became a martyr after being murdered in the second century, the Romans were punishing many Christians before they themselves converted to Christianity under the Emperor Constantine, but that was in the 4th century AD, before much Christian blood was shed and it seems that some Christians also died by being cooked inside a bronze animal.

Saint Eustace was said to have been one of them before converting to Christianity, he had served under a Roman emperor, but he saw the light, so to speak, when one day he had a vision involving a deer and a crucifix. Christians could tell you that this man then lost everything, which was one of those tests from God, he lost his money, his servants, his wife and his children were taken from him by a lion and a wolf, but his faith remains strong in all the time. There are a few different stories about what happened to this man, but some people will tell you that he regained his wealth and his family, but in the end, he, his wife, and his children were roasted to death on the bronze bull by order of Emperor Hadrian.

We looked at some Christian sources and they seemed to support that, although they don't say that his family also received the treatment. We also find This piece of Christian

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written in the 19th century seems to suggest that when Eustis and his family were roasted, they died but some miracles happened. This is from that text that the holy martyrs by divine power remained alive for three days praising and blessing the great giver. of life and death finally when their voices stopped the bull opened and the four were found lifeless but also without any damage to their bodies or their clothes it is written that other Christians close to him at that time followed the same path for example A man known as Saint Atipas This was written about him They became enraged and dragged him to the temple of Artemis and there they threw him into a container of red-hot copper or bronze metal where they normally put their sacrifices to idols to expel demons.

His own people prayed aloud to God to receive his soul and strengthen the faith of the Christians and he begged God to forgive those who were inflicting his torment on him and then he left as peacefully as if he had fallen asleep, we must say. that there are many people who do not believe in these stories and relate them more to legend than to truth, it is not for us to say what is true or not, but the most serious historians will at least tell you that the stories, from the beginningssurprising from the bulls in Greece even the Christian martyrs, do not feel. any pain while being roasted is difficult to verify, what is very true is that the stories about the bronze bull have been passed down through the centuries and by the way, those manuscripts can still be read today, while it is possible seeing a bronze bull in a museum in the world will not be real only a description of one in terms of justice you could say that the ancient Persian empire was harsh but fair the penal code included the principle of lex talionis an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth Minor crimes generally warranted fines, could be accused of defamation, and for the worst crimes they would receive the death penalty.

Sometimes there was a two-punishment rule, which meant that someone would not be executed for his first crime, so there you are, in ancient Persia, two

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. Below you wonder how the death penalty will be applied, it will be suffocation with ashes perhaps or maybe having molten gold poured down your throat, like what could have happened to the Roman emperor Valerian, it is difficult to say what would be worse, but today I think we have a Persian punishment that was the most brutal of all, while the ancient Persians had strict laws regarding matters of justice, as we said, it did not prevent them from being tremendously brutal at times.

We'll give you a few more examples before we get to the possible worst punishment of all. Take, for example, the death of a Persian judge named Sisemnis. It is said that he was corrupt and King Cambyses II of Persia who ruled from 530 BC. to 522 BC He wanted to make an example of him as a warning to others who might think of corrupting the courts. It is said that that judge was skinned from head to toe and then his skin was used to make a chair. As the story goes, any person appointed from From then on as a judge I would have to spend some time sitting in that chair to know what would happen if I were corrupt.

You can see this horrible spectacle in the paintings. sesame arrest and sesame skinning then there is the story of cyrus the great it is written that his wife became quite unhappy with one of his eunuchs so unhappy that in fact he ordered him to be killed three times this is called the triple death he said first they took him away the eyes from his head, but then they nursed him back to health. His second death was being skinned, but again they took care of him so that he would not die. We imagine that he couldn't have been skinned completely as that resulted in certain death when he had better be crucified and the job was done, we should say though that there are many versions of this story, we'll stick with this one for now. , so with these two executions in mind, could there be anything worse?

Well, now we have to look at the story of a man named Mithridates, he was a young Persian soldier who was executed in the year 401 BC. C., said that this man accidentally killed Cyrus the younger, the rebel who had the intention of killing his older brother in order to inherit the throne. of men were killed behind Cyrus as this culminated in the Battle of Kunaxa Cyrus' army took the lead after charging at Artaxerxes' army everything was going well the throne was in his sights Cyrus then went to attack his personal bodyguard brother and then, oops! out of nowhere the javelin just hit him and killed him on the spot.

This was a major setback for the rebels and they all retreated. Their future king was dead. It's over. We know this because the story was recorded by the Greek biographer Plutarch in his essay The Life of Artaxerxes. Another Greek writer named Catecius told Plutarch the fate of the man who accidentally killed Cyrus with that javelin. As you know, his name was Mithridates. It is understandable that some people were perhaps a little upset with Mithridates, only the harshest punishments would do and that is where the scaphism comes from. This is how Plutarch describes the very unusual type of death penalty which we will paraphrase, as his language is now a bit dated, so two canisters of the same size were placed on top of each other and nailed together, forming a sort of coffin floating.

Holes were made. in the boat so they could hold the prisoner in them with his hands, feet and head outside so well that he was floating and his head was sticking out he was getting quite hot they left him there with the hot sun shining on his face his body was hot inside from the floating grave, they then force-fed him Mithridates' milk and honey and in good-sized portions also covered his face with that substance. Soon his honey-covered face was covered with flies that fed on him and the honey. Then he was force-fed more and more until his belly was distended and had produced a large amount of excrement.

At this point, as Plutarch said, crawling things and vermin sprout from the corruption and rot of the excrement. . These things entered the intestines of Mithridates while his flesh was also slowly being eaten from the outside. This slow devouring by insects and vermin was said to last 17 days at which time poor young Mithridates with the bad javelin shot was eaten alive. another description of this by a 12th century Byzantine chronicler named Jonas Zanares. It's actually the same story, but he embellished the story a bit. This is the translated word-for-word conclusion. Flies, wasps and bees, attracted by the sweetness, land on his face and all those parts of him project themselves out of the ships and miserably torment and sting the unfortunate ones.

In addition, man's belly, swollen like milk and honey, sheds liquid excrement and these putrid excrements engender swarms of intestinal worms and of all kinds. Thus, the victim who lies in the boats, his flesh rots in his own filth and, devoured by the worms, dies persistently and horrible death, but it's just one case of scaphism throughout history, well, it seems like the only case everyone is talking about is the one we just described, although most sources call scaphism an ancient form of punishment, as if it happened over and over again. an excerpt from a book called the history of Christian martyrdom and that book is written that a bishop named Marcus in the year 363 AD.

He destroyed a pagan temple and then erected a church. This did not sit well with the Roman emperor Julian the apostate. It is written that as punishment, he took Marcus and hung him in a basket and left him there to feast on the insects, but this seems like a case of death under the scorching sun rather than extreme scaphism. There's actually a big debate about scaphism on the wiki talk page. With some editors questioning Plutarch's veracity and asking for other sources, Plutarch did in fact write that account of scaphism, but some historians believe he may have done it to demonize the Persians and make his own culture look better.

We will never really know what happened. Mithridates, but right now that's the prevailing story, maybe he was the only man who got the full dose of scaphism or maybe old Plutarch was a former fake news editor. He tries to put you in this position for a moment. You are a king in the ninth. 19th century medieval England and you have been attacked and invaded by quite fearsome Viking hordes who have made the journey to kill and plunder in that order. They told you that they will execute you and then you wait in some kind of tent wondering. how that will play out what usually happens in your own territory is that criminals go to the chopping block, you think it's okay, it will be quick and painless, I will say my prayers and that will mean that I am a martyr, heaven will be good. to me, but you underestimate the brutal creativity of your enemies, you soon find out that they will take your ribs and lungs out of your back to turn them into some kind of winged creature, damn, that's going to be tough, you think, and that's the eagle of blood in Brief, but we will add a little more to the description of this unpleasant Viking execution procedure.

First, the person is laid on their back with their back facing the air, perhaps if the victim had not been told what was going to happen, they might have thought. They were going to lose their heads as was customary in Anglo-Saxon England, we can't be sure if they were told or not because there is nothing in Viking literature that tells us so, so we also assume that they were held down by some people or tied up, These pieces are missing in ancient texts, so the person is lying on his front waiting. This form of execution was a ritual of sorts, so it would undoubtedly have happened in a special place and would have been observed by many Viking men.

An executioner then approaches the naked victim with a very sharp knife or something larger like an axe. In some cases, he may have an eagle carved into the skin of him. This was simply an appetizer. With that knife he then cuts the flesh from the man's back. with so much power that it actually cuts through the ribs, those ribs are pulled and stretched outward like wings, the piece de resistance is when the man's lungs pass through his back and wrap over the wings of the ribs. This procedure was supposed to give a greater impression of bird wings, hence the blood eagle, it sounds too bad to be true, so how do we know this really happened?

During the Viking Age, they had poets, as many ancient cultures did back then, this was called scalded poetry, these poems would become part of sagas detailing things like Viking invasions, legends of great kings, bloody battles, etc., some of these stories have survived and been translated. There is a story called the Orknayaga saga and it details the exploits of a guy called Harald, the first blond, who is said to have been the first king of Norway, credited with being the ruler when the Vikings took over the northern islands of Orknei. and shetland, if you don't know where they are and we don't expect most of you to be north of Scotland, but groups of islands that are not on the mainland, if you didn't know that a group of islands is called an archipelago, look, we don't just try To describe blood and gore, the saga details life on these islands, some scholars might wonder if what is written really went down because the saga was written many years after the herald king existed, it was written in the 13th century, but the vikings were there since the 9th century, word of mouth could have passed on the details anyway to shorten an even shorter story about the herald warrior.

His sons called Half Then Longleg were executed because he had been involved in power struggles that had killed a member of the Viking nobility and 60 other men. He had done this with his brother. That brother was banished from Orkney, but the mastermind of the operation was not. Not so lucky, the son of the murdered noble took revenge and demanded that the blood eagle be made in half and then in the long leg as a sacrifice to the god Odin. This is how it has been translated. Count Einar approached Halfdan and cut the blood eagle in his the way he stabbed his sword into his chest along the spine and cut all the ribs up to the loins and then took out the lungs and that was the death of Halfdan .

That's case 1. Case 2 involves a formidable Viking warrior named Ivor the Boneless, who is said to have been the son of Norse hero Ragnar Lothbrok, why boneless, you might ask, and historians have wondered the same thing. Some think that he actually wasn't boned, but that his manhood didn't work very well. What he lacked physically he made up for. in the brain because he said he was an outstanding strategist in battle, this was a time when the Vikings were taking over much of Anglo-Saxon England and it is detailed in the saga called the story of the sons of regnar which describes what which happened in the 9th century.

King Ayla of Northumbria, which is the north of England, King Ayla learns of an upcoming invasion from the great Ragnar Lothbrok. There are different accounts of what he did and how he died, but one of those features spoiler alert if you haven't finished watching the show Vikings Plug. Your ears now are that he was captured by King Ayla and thrown into a pit of snakes there he dies. Ivor the Boneless is too smart to invade the north of England when the army there is so strong that he bides his time. In fact, he stays in England but asks King Ayla for something called a war guild which is a kind of compensation for a man's life, in this case his father's, he tells Ayla that all he wants is a ox hide and that he will only take the land on which he can stretch the hide in a modern parliament and Zela might have thought what an idiot but smart.

Ivor cut the skin into a very thin rope and stretched it around a large area. He said that this will be a new city and that city is supposed to be York in the north of England. Ivar proceeds to obtain all the The chiefs of that region are on his side. He now has a powerful army and decides it's time to attack the rest of England and get revenge on Ayla. Many of the northern English swear allegiance to Ivor because they respect him, which sounds a bit like Norse propaganda. everything ended with the capture of ayla in ivar becoming the king of the northeast of england her brothers basically go on a pilgrimage devastating england and all over europe meanwhile ayla is about to receive the dreaded blood eagle treatment and in a poem by 11th century this is how it came down in translation and ivar, who lived in york,has Ayla's back cut with an eagle, that's a pretty familiar description of events because we also have another description, if your bloodlust wasn't quenched, it was like that, they caused the bloody eagle. to be carved into Ayla's back and all the ribs were cut out of her spine and then her lungs were ripped out, okay?

Did all this really happen? Well, who knows, because any historian who tells you what is true or not is true. I also can't be sure they weren't there. Some scholars say that the Norse poets, like modern poets, used cryptic symbolism and therefore were not always literal. They say that in the 12th century a Danish poet called saxo grammaticus also wrote about people being cut into pieces and turned into eagles, so there definitely seems to be a shared theme in those dark days. In that story, the Vikings took the ritual a step further and poured salt on the open body.

Some say it could have happened and others seem to think that a lot has been lost in translation over the years, you see, the saga writers wrote those things hundreds of years after the fact, as you yourself know, the things They tend to get exaggerated over time, which starts out like one guy pushing another guy on a train. The season could at the end of the week be a bloody fight where someone lost a tooth in an eye and a hero could also emerge from the chaos. Were those stories of Viking violence embellished as people admired them and thus examined the ferocity of the Vikings?

Exactly, we simply don't know, but it is a fact that there was a bit of talk about the blood eagle. Scholars still disagree today, but in the interest of this program we won't ask you to let facts get in the way of a good story. French philosopher Michel Foucault begins his book Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison with a chapter about an unfortunate Frenchman named robert francois damiens damiens had tried unsuccessfully to assassinate king louis His limbs and then his torso were burned at the stake. Some in the crowd cheered, but one commentator wrote that several times I was forced to turn my face and cover my ears while listening to his piercing screams.

Half of his body had been torn off. Things slowly changed regarding him. the harshness of the punishments, but today we will look back at the brutal past in this episode of the infographic showing the worst punishments in the history of humanity. We must explain that this list is not in any particular order of evil because you will see that all of these punishments imposed are barbaric to the nth degree. It would be hard to say which one is the worst since they are all incredibly horrible. We'll let you decide which punishment you think is the most egregious.

We will also add that some of you might believe. Such prolonged agony, like solitary confinement for 20 years, could actually be worse than the excruciating pain that lasts a few seconds or minutes before death, but today we will focus more on barbaric acts. The colt, we'll start with a punishment that everyone has probably heard. The rack was a fairly simple device consisting of a rectangular frame and a series of levers, pulleys and ropes. There are different versions of the rack dating from ancient times to the Middle Ages in Europe, the idea was to stretch the prisoner by the joints until the muscles were torn. and the joints burst eventually all the joints would dislocate hanged drawn and quartered this is close to what happened to damien but it was better known as a very gruesome form of execution in middle ages england when someone had committed high treason, too known as treason against the state.

The prisoner would be hung until almost dead, then taken down and gutted while he was still alive and the manhood would also be cut from his body. He would then be cut into pieces and often have his head cut off and hung somewhere where the public could see it. The punishment was abolished in England in 1870. The Judah chair, also known as Dany's chair or Judas' cradle, is not known exactly when it was used, but there are sketches of it and it is also exhibited in some museums. This gruesome device was a chair with a pointed pyramid shape on the seat of the chair, websites that write about medieval history tell us that people would sit on top of this spike and lower themselves down with ropes, which was extremely painful. when entering the hole, but were sometimes dragged down with use. of weights, while applying oil would make things worse, they would die slowly as they were lowered even further or perhaps die even more slowly due to an infection, this could take hours or days according to two sources we found.

Some sources say it was used during the Spanish inquisition, but Other sources refute that boiling again, we head to England and this time to the 16th century the often bullied King Henry VIII is said to have made this a form of capital punishment. , but it seems that it was also popular at one time throughout Europe and Asia as you can guess that the torture and usually the ultimate death was the result of someone being boiled alive in a large cauldron or teapot filled with water, oil or tar. The Catherine wheel, also known as the breaking wheel, is believed to have been primarily used for this simple method of body destruction.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, in Europe and parts of Asia, the French writer Voltaire writes about punishment in a book published in the 18th century. The prisoners were tied and spread on a large wooden wheel, the executioner took a heavy object, sometimes an iron club. and breaking the person on the wheel until the body was completely almost in pieces, sometimes, however, it would take a few days for the victims to die from their injuries. the head crusher, this should be self explanatory. Imagine a metal plate strapped to your skull and a metal plate under your chin you cannot move it as it is all secured the plate can be lowered using a large screw that can be turned as it goes down it breaks the bones in your head and eventually crushes the skull we can't find too many reliable sources tell us when this was used, but again it is believed to be a gadget from the Middle Ages.

History.com tells us it was a real thing and it appears in a book called the big book of pain, torture and punishment throughout history. You've seen Game of Thrones, you'll be familiar with this punishment. Torture involves cutting off all of a person's skin, although in China it is said that sometimes it was just the skin of the face. Sometimes the person may have been burned first to make cutting easier. or perhaps simply to add more evil, it existed as late as the 18th century and Michel Foucault analyzes it in great detail in the book we mentioned discipline and punishment, he said that the English did it with thieves in the 13th century, but that punishment happened everywhere.

In the world throughout time it is said that the Chinese Emperor Hongwoo ordered the skinning of 5,000 women in 1357, although a book called Skin and Bones puts the date in 1396. Death by a thousand cuts attached to the Chinese in a similar period comes This brutal torture also known as linchi, a book called Death by a Thousand Cuts says it was a common form of punishment in China in the 14th century, but was present in the country for many centuries. The prisoner's entire body would be cut up but it would take a long time for him to die. as expected from small cuts, but nothing was saved from the knife and eventually this would kill the unfortunate victim;

However, although this form of punishment became infamous outside of China, some historians tell us that it was not as long as some people originally said and that some of those cuts actually meant dismemberment making death come faster sawing looking at sketches of This from the 15th century, in some ways is the most barbaric, since it is so basic that a person is hung upside down from a gallows with his legs forming a v. Then, two men would take a large saw and cut the man in half from the groin area; apparently it would survive much of this, according to one source we can find, this was used infrequently in medieval Europe and in China, where it was cut horizontally across the middle was an alternative, look around the net, the Sawing took all sorts of forms around the world for many centuries, in any case, people were sought, but the method may have taken many forms, rats, right now you might be thinking what the hell was wrong with people. in the past who enacted or even endorsed such behavior because humans understand pain so well, aren't we blessed with a built-in morality, if you haven't already thought that maybe you will in a second, since death by rats really is Take the cookie that was? apparently used in medieval Europe and China.

Some sources tell us that hungry rats pour themselves into a box with a naked prisoner and slowly eat the person. Other sources say that first the person's belly is partially opened so that the rats can access the inside of it. written in a 1931 book called Happily I'm Going to Hell, Reminiscences of a Bishop's Daughter, another book called Torture Dictionary tells us that this happened in Germany and another book tells us that in China the rat would be trapped in the stomach of the victim under a metal pot this pot would heat up until the rat had no choice but to try to force its way through the person's body, we cannot say what the outcome of this would be and perhaps it is not so plausible that a rat can eat its way. through a body, some of the sources who say that was the case offer no evidence that this was the case.

By popular demand, we bring you another program about unimaginable punishments that authorities have imposed on criminals and people considered a threat to the government or government. even religion while crushing the heads of people with medieval vices certainly doesn't happen anymore, the world still hosts some barbaric punishments today, even in the most developed countries there are things like waterboarding or the brain ruin of being imprisoned in solitary confinement , floggings that still happen in some countries have been called beyond unbearable while being stoned to death, we can imagine that it must be a terrible path to follow. In 2008 reports emerged of a 13-year-old Somali girl who had been buried up to her neck and stoned to death by 50 men. reporting a rape today we will explore more insane meanness in this episode of the infographic program the worst punishments in the history of humanity part two number 10 the brazen bull also known as the sicilian bull this brutal punishment existed in ancient greece how do we know?

The Greek historian Theodorus Sicilus wrote about this in one of his many history books covering various cultures of the time. He writes that a bull would be made of bronze almost the same size as a real bull. There was a door on the side. Then a fire was lit under the bull and the person was roasted to death. It is even said that the bull was designed in such a way that screams would be emitted to viewers if this sounds bad, well at the end of the show you might be thinking that wasn't a bad way to die after all Iron Maiden number 9, it's You may have already heard of the name if you like heavy metal music, the band got its name from a torture device like many torture contraptions, historians debate when and how it was used, but nowadays you can certainly find maidens iron in museums.

It is believed that the first of them was a Germanic invention from the 14th century, but throughout the following centuries many historians would write. about these devilish things, they look like an egyptian mummy, but the inside of the door is adorned with spikes when it is closed, the person in the coffin is impaled, as we said, some historians write that these things may not have been used or They may not have been used often, but they certainly existed. Others write that they were talked about a lot in the 18th and 19th centuries to show how barbaric people used to be and how much better they were in their era of crucifixion number 8, we probably should have included this in the first show as it is a terrible way to die, as you will know from reading Christian history, crucifixion involved tying or nailing a naked person to a wooden beam, then the person would be left to die slowly, this is how ended Jesus Christ, what you may not know is that there were many ways to crucify a person, maybe a good scenario was being nailed to a tree, but much worse was being impaled on a stake and left to die, even in ancient history some people thought this was too much and the Roman philosopher Cicero called it the cruelest thing. and a disgusting punishment, if you didn't die of shock, sepsis or dehydration, then the animals around could feast on you, you may also not know that it was not only popular in ancient times, theJapanese crucified in the 16th century, the Burmese in the 19th century and in some parts of the Middle East crucifixion remains a legal punishment.

Spanish donkey number 7. This is a donkey that no man or woman would want to ride if you saw our first show. The way someone would be tortured is similar to the prisoners in judas cradle they would be sitting on what looks like a triangular shaped block of wood, this wood could have nails on the ridge, they would lower them down to the sharp ridge and, Sometimes they would be pulled down with weights which would cause excruciating pain, some sources say this could result in the person being cut off and dying others say it simply paralyzed a person the French called it chevalet or horse a documentary from the history channel says that such a device was used during the american civil war to torture confederate prisoners these prisoners would faint from pain and sometimes be disabled for life number six breast ripper these horrible things look like two forks with prongs similar to fangs of a snake except they were made of iron appearing in the book victims and values ​​a history and theory of suffering that said they would be heated and then used to tear off a woman's breasts as punishment, this would cause severe scarring and loss of the breasts, but the infection that followed often killed the woman.

The medieval times at castles website writes that this instrument was mainly reserved for women accused of performing a miscarriage or accused of adultery, there are some reports that Isis used a similar instrument on a female victim in 2014, except they called it the teether, the teether was reportedly used because some women were accused of not wearing the correct number five dress. Crocodile scissors, of course, men did not escape such barbaric punishments related to their virility. Crocodile scissors were iron tubes with teeth inside, they were heated and attached to a man's penis like a crocodile's mouth, resulting in castration. but again in those days such punishment often meant a slow death from infection.

In medieval times and Castles writes that crocodile curtains had a very specific purpose: to mutilate those who attempted to assassinate the king. Another writer tells us that after tearing off the penis, they would tear it off. Removing other things like fingers or toes, trying to kill a king, regicide was considered the worst of the worst and of course warranted a punishment that would prevent any man from trying again. It could have been worse. the iron comb this was a heavy comb with sharp spikes that ran through the flesh until there was not much left of you, people were often combed and then if that didn't finish them off they lost their heads number four the chinese torture chair, Okay, so this is another piece of horror apparatus that may have been used just for daylight scares in a popular puzzle from the Saw franchise.

I would have been envious of this chair if it had been real, of course we found one of them on a museum website with the current owner mentioning that they did exist. The chair is made of wood with 12 steel sheets on the backrest, footrests and seat. A chair is said to have been used in Europe, although we refer to it simply as the iron chair. This could have had 500, up to 1,500 spikes for the victims to sit on, sometimes embers were placed under the chair to increase the pain. The historian writes that the spikes did not penetrate vital organs and blood loss was minimized at least until that the person was freed from the chair.

We cannot imagine that the outcome was good once the prisoner was released. Chinese torture number three with water. You might be thinking, what is this? do here between instruments that cause extreme physical pain well maybe going crazy slowly could be even worse than losing one or two body parts torture involves slowly dripping water on a part of the head and apparently after enough time this will become absolutely unbearable thing the victim was doing, the crazy mythbusters, they tested it to see if it really worked and the person didn't last long after not even two hours, he asked the experimenter to stop complaining about claustrophobia and shoulder spasms and said he was starting to laugh, imagine days.

Of this the skeptics are not sure it is that effective there is only one way to find out coffin torture number two the problem with this is the fact that it took years to die was very popular in the Middle Ages and used to scare people. for committing crimes the victims would be hung from a beam or tree inside a kind of coffin a wooden prison with holes would be so small that the person would bend over in a painful position and then they would just leave them there people could throw things at them they would poke them with sticks, etc. and they would stay there until they slowly died, even after death, they would leave them there until the birds destroyed their flesh and there wasn't much left of them.

The lucky ones were allowed to go down alive if their crime was Maybe not that bad and finally, scaphism number 1, one of the most creative tortures that ever existed, this Persian execution method is unlike any other, According to the book, one bloody thing after another, the horrible history of the world, the victim was forced to eat a large amount. so much milk and honey that he vomited, attracting ants and bugs, he was also covered in honey, apparently most of this honey was smeared around his eyes, nose, mouth and genitals, and also on his ears and anus, then they tied him up. two boats in a patch of shallow, stagnant water where he would be devoured by all manner of insects and four-legged scavengers, wrote a Byzantine historian;

Furthermore, its belly swollen as it is with milk and honey spews out liquid excrement and these putrid excrements engender swarms of intestinal worms and all kinds, hence the victim lying in the boats, his flesh riding in its own filth and devoured by the worms, dies a long, horrible death, basically being eaten from the inside out or you might be lucky to die first When it comes to cruel and unusual punishments, you could say the Romans took things to the extreme: a persecuted Christian or a A rebellious slave could simply be executed by beheading, and while that sounds like a kind of harsh justice, the Romans might have thought it was merciful after all. the worst criminals could suffer the humiliation and agony of crucifixion;

Any sane person would have begged to be beheaded rather than crucified; other criminals could suffer perhaps an even worse fate, and that was literally being thrown to the wolves, lions or leopards, or even being thrown crushed by an elephant and then there is the punishment that we will talk about today and we will let you decide. where it ranks in the ranking of Roman executions, first of all, this spectacle has nothing to do with the type of fireworks you have heard about. That is called the Roman candle. Those fireworks that fill the air with an explosion of stars do not come from Rome but were created on the other side of the world in China.

However, the Roman candle that we are going to talk about today is related to the fire and a form of entertainment, let us explain, you may have heard of something called the great fire of Rome and it is supposed to have happened in 64 AD, it destroyed large parts of Rome and entire neighborhoods went up in flames, no one knows exactly how . began, but it is generally believed that strong winds carried the flames through the narrow streets lined with many wooden homes. The emperor at that time was a man named Nero who has gone down in history as perhaps the most villainous character in Rome.

Some Roman historians wrote about how tyrannical and deranged this man was in times past and present. Historians disagree as to the validity of how crazy this man was and also what part he had in the fire. Some accounts of the fire come from Roman historians who were not actually there. for the thing, but those stories are all there is, there's a chance that Nero actually had arsonists start the fire so he could rebuild parts of Rome in his own image if he really was a tyrannical egomaniac, that might make sense, we had The saying: Nero played the violin while Rome burned to represent how this man was far from the flames while his people suffered violence was not even invented back then, but the phrase is supposed to simply mean that he was playing music and having a good time. while Rome burned in flames, perhaps. the fire was an accident or maybe Nero set it or maybe some arsonists who were not connected to anyone in power did it, we really don't know but the accounts tell us that Nero blamed the minorities for the fire and each other.

There were Christians and Jews. Historians believe that Nero simply punished the people accused of starting the fire and only years later were they said to be Christians. Someone was used as a scapegoat to burn most of Rome and it could have been these minorities. Christian historians would certainly say that it was people of their religion who were punished by fire but again it is not so clear the most talked about death was Saint Peter and some accounts say that he was crucified and became a martyr at the hands of Nero but this was written Years after the event, Saint Paul and some accounts were decapitated by the fire and in one legend his head bounced three times and each time water gushed out from the place where he hit what were supposedly two of Nero's victims after the fire according to some stories.

We apologize for not being able to tell you exactly what happened, but many things have been written and historians and theologians will disagree on matters today, some say that Roman historians never discussed Christians at that time, while others They say that at the time of the fire it is not clear that Christians even considered themselves Christians, a Roman historian named Tacitus wrote about Nero's anger after the fire, but this was many years after the fact that he wrote that many Christians were being detained and then interrogated, after which some suffered the worst kind of death by being covered in animal skins. and then torn apart by dogs was one of them that the historian wrote Nero tied to the guild and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on the Christians who were hated for their abominations.

We may not be clear about exactly which people in groups were blamed, tortured and executed afterwards. the fire, but most agree that Nero meted out some nasty punishments and finally we get to the Roman candle, it went out something like this. A person is sentenced to death, but Nero wants the pain to last for some time. He also wants the show to be kind. entertainment, so he came up with a plan to take a person and cover them with flammable material, but not so flammable that the person would catch fire very quickly. Some sources claim that first the feet would be lit, the person is tied to a stake. and the event occurs in an imperial garden where Nero and his friends can witness some years later Tacitus described some of the executions like this those who confessed were captured first then those who were accused by informants those sentenced to death were also mocked torn to pieces by dogs dressed as beasts or crucified and set on fire at the end of the day as torches to illuminate the night, the same story tells us that Nero put on these light shows for the people while he walked through the dress like a charioteer make us believe that this show was not for the public good but for his own sick entertainment, we may never know who started the fire or who was killed for it or even if Nero used people as torches, there is a painting depicting the event that was called the torches by Nero English although it was not painted until 1876 it is the middle ages and times have been difficult for a peasant like you the subsequent drought and poor harvests have devastated his town and widespread famine is around the To make matters worse, there have been raised taxes because their rulers are at war with other rulers, you're tired of watching your children starve, but in the absence of Twitter, seeking social justice will mean gathering real people and making their case to you.

You know, even though someone has denounced you and you have been quickly suspended from your peasant duties, your interrogators are not interested in malnourished children or dying crops and, as they stretch your body on the rack, you admit more than ever, which was just Get some people together to talk about injustice, you've been branded a traitor and the worst is going to happen to you, so here you are a brave social justice warrior who just wanted a respite from the demands of high taxes during a very difficult time. difficult. time for the peasants it doesn't really matter that you didn't kill anyone or starta mutiny what matters is that you have been accused of conspiring and occupying the movement of the lord having been stretched on the rack you admitted to being somewhat dissatisfied by watching your children die in front of you and not being able to get the most precious bread, you hardly started a revolt peasant, but a simple meeting of peasants to discuss the drawbacks of serfdom really angered and upset the nobility.

Everyone who is very familiar with the past peasant revolts and any kind of insubordination will be treated seriously, which meant a mixture of tried and tested cruel and unusual punishments for you while informing your tormentors of your guilt and defeating some others. peasants angry with You may be broken but you are not dead and the nobility want to give you an example with what is offered, just as they would like to give you an example, they want to make your death a public spectacle, perhaps after seeing you scream. The man in the street will think twice before complaining that he has been taxed to death.

The nobility will have a brainstorming meeting and try to think of some particularly gruesome punishment for you. He burned the bonfire in public view, says one of the rich judges, so come on, someone responds by burning. It's so 13th century, come on guys, let's try to think outside the box, another man raises his hand and looks like he might have a good answer, he says hanged, quartered, but then we gut him and put his head on a pike, he looks despondent . When his boss responds, Gilbert, you know very well that we did it last month, it's not very original now, isn't it okay? "I have one," says a guy right behind him, barely looking up and with an evil look in his eyes, "we make a box that looks a little like a coffin but shaped like a human.

We fill it with spikes and when it's closed, all those Barbs impale them and may leave some spaces for blood to flow through. You know, it could look really good. The boss rubs his mustaches and thinks for a moment yes, that could be brutal enough. I like blood spurts. It's very romantic. The scenario we just described, of course, didn't happen and we don't need to tell you that people did. Don't talk like that in the Middle Ages, the truth about that conversation is that Iron Maiden, in addition to being the name of a British heavy metal band that wrote songs with a name like the number of the beast, was actually a box. with spikes on the inside, it looked something like the box in which an Egyptian mummy would be kept, something called a sarcophagus.

Iron maidens can still be found in museums today. They captured the imagination like no other gadget simply because they seem as barbaric as any angry peasant who had even heard of one of these, would flee for the hills if he thought the nobles were after him, but the burning question is where and when they were used and against who. This part has worried historians for years, but that hasn't stopped it. Numerous websites simply state that they were used and do not include any further information. First of all, we're not going to do a show today about something we just made up or found on some dodgy website that likes to say you won't believe what happened next.

Maidens exist and have existed for quite some time. Some of them are now artifacts that people can take selfies with in museums. At the same time, Google Glass and T-Mobile exist and no one uses them much. Well, it's the first time anyone. mentioned that an iron maiden was used in a very similar way to what we are talking about today was when a german philosopher named johann philip steven key talked about one and wrote that in 1515 a coin counterfeiter in nuremberg had gone to bed for eternity and had cattle. How did you know this? He was writing in the late 18th century and no one seems to know how he knew about the Iron Maidens.

He also studied ancient history and stories have been passed down from ancient times about people being executed in a rather uncomfortable manner. box perhaps the philosopher embellished those boxes on his account for a good reason. There are skeptics because after he wrote about those things people started making them in the 19th century, making iron maidens was all the rage and that's why there are so many of them today. museums, if you're from the US, you can see one for yourself at the san diego man museum. The earliest version of the Iron Maiden was made in Nuremberg in 1802 after Stephen Key's account that one was destroyed in World War II, why would he? people started making them in the 19th century and didn't use them.

One of the reasons that kept coming up according to scholars was related to propaganda. If people in the 19th centuryIn the 19th century it was said that this is how people were punished in the Middle Ages, they would think, wow, we have it so good today. . Hanging up is like a slap on the wrist. Steven Keys was thought to have invented the whole thing and there was no coin counterfeiter who drilled himself inside. a sequined sarcophagus, it seems that other countries just followed the lie and also used the iron maiden as a way to make people realize that the past was brutal and the present was perfect and humane, so there it is you have in the Middle Ages and after.

There were methods of torture that we find absolutely disgusting today and there were gruesome ways of executing people, but the Iron Maiden was an invention of more civilized people who wanted to paint their predecessors on planet Earth as savages. We are in the 16th century in England and you are the cook in a nobleman's house. That rich man has invited many of his friends to dinner and you are responsible for preparing it. The elite at this time are incredibly cautious when it comes to eating and food tasters are often employed on this night. one will do this terrifying job. 17 of the people who eat your food get seriously ill and some of them die.

They accuse you of putting something lethal in the food. Food poisoning is considered the most heinous of crimes, so you are sentenced to death by boiling. When that finally happens, viewers will be nauseated and shocked by what they see - even in this era, boiling someone alive was seen as over the top. The true story we just told you involved a cook named Richard Roos and he was accused of attempting to kill. the man he worked for, who was the bishop of rochester, the bishop did not end up eating the food, but some of his guests did, as well as some of the household servants, this was the time of king henry viii and He was known to fear being poisoned like no one else, which is probably why such a harsh sentence was handed down even in those days.

Being boiled alive turned most people's stomachs, which is why the English didn't do it much because many elites feared their food would be contaminated. A food taster was often hired, but that was not always due to poison. In those days, food couldn't be refrigerated, so eating something rotten was very possible, in view of this, just being a cook was a pretty dangerous job in Roose's case. They tortured him to obtain a confession. They stretched him out on the rack, so you'd think he'd say anything after that. He admitted that he put a certain white powder in the food, but said that he thought it was some kind of laxative and that he had done it as a joke, yes the joke goes back centuries, he said that a stranger had given him the package.

Some people thought that the king himself might have been behind this, as the bishop was one of Henry's critics in the end. he would order the death of the bishop and it was the feared type of execution hanging, quartering and some of the other people believed that it was someone somehow related to the king who gave that poison to the cook. He was probably a pawn in a game he knew. nothing about it so the fact that he was boiled alive is sad to say the least the event was talked about for many years after shakespeare alluded to it writing what he studied the torments the tyrant has for me what wheels racks fires what skinning boiling in lead or oil what Should I receive old or new tortures?

So how did the ruse come to boil? His execution occurred in London on April 15, 1532. The Chronicle of the Gray Friars of London described how the whole thing lasted about two hours. First, Bruce was bound with chains and then he. They hung him on a kind of scaffolding above a large pot of boiling water. Not only did they sink him and leave him there, but they lowered him into the pot three times with the order to do so until he died. Bystanders said he roared mightily. loudly and some women who observed the event were sick to their stomachs in england this method of execution would only be repeated once more by poisoning in 1547 edward vi put an end to it before the english boiled people to death the romans had The same thing was done for thousands of Christians, but sometimes oil, wax or even wine was used.

The Roman emperor Nero was particularly fond of doling out this type of punishment in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. People were thrown into the kettle, the cauldron and the pot for everyone. All sorts of things happened from Scotland to France, Germany and other parts of Europe in the 14th century. A Scottish nobleman named William II Sewell was boiled alive after being accused of witchcraft, although there are other interpretations of what happened to him, unlike some. Of the punishments that we've talked about in our other videos, there's a lot of written evidence that he was boiled and it happened quite a bit, especially to people in the Middle Ages who had been accused of being coin counterfeiters or counterfeiters.

It's not a very creative way. way to kill someone, so you won't be surprised that boiling someone to death happened all over the world in 16th century Japan. An outlaw hero named Ishikawa Goemon went that way. The stories of this man are part of mythology, as he was said to be. A ninja with devastating combat skills, Goemon, had attempted to assassinate a despotic warlord, but failed and his punishment was to be boiled to death with his son. We cannot guarantee the veracity of what happened next, but the story goes that the son died first. Goemon remained a while longer holding his son and then died in Asia.

There is also the case of a Sikh martyr who was thrown into the pot when he refused to accept Islam. All these executions happened a long time ago and we would like to think. that today no one anywhere on this planet is being cooked to death, although American intelligence in 2004 told us that two men in Uzbekistan were murdered this way for being enemies of the state. Human Rights Watch wrote that the men's injuries pointed to the fact that they had been boiled as to what this punishment would feel like, you know a man was recorded screaming in pain, it won't be quick and the organs will take some time to heal. boil if the water is already boiling so soon.

As the person is thrown in there, their skin, flesh, and fat will cook, which will not kill them immediately unless they go into shock. What will kill them is when their heart, liver, brain, stomach and everything else inside starts to cook, we know more about This is because people were accidentally boiled to death when they fell into boiling water in 1981. In the US, A man jumped into a hot spring to save a dog. They told him not to come in and he yelled at the shocked onlookers as if he didn't. and he actually dove in, they pulled him out and he was still conscious, even though he had suffered terrible injuries, he told the onlookers that it was stupid, how bad am I, it was stupid what I did, he died the next day, this just shows that a person can survive being Boiled for some time, so overall, even for this series of shows, boiling is incredibly brutal when it comes to terrible punishments during the ancient world and the Middle Ages.

The ship represented the pinnacle of the army. The ship was something sacred and as time passed. It was those who ruled the waves who became the most powerful nations, but during the Age of Discovery, when ships discovered new worlds and crossed vast oceans, life was hard for sailors, the Age of Discovery was also an era of mutiny when an aggrieved crew turned against their captain. All hell could break loose and there was nowhere to hide. That's why some particularly horrible punishments were reserved for out-of-control sailors. orders for his transgression, the punishment had to be quite severe because when you are in the middle of the ocean you cannot afford to let things slide, on the other hand, if a captain is too harsh, this could create a conspiracy to capture him. and that is what we call mutiny perhaps the best known of them was the mutiny for the reward that a captain had to be tough but fair so as not to lose the respect of his crew the most common types of punishment then were not keel transport which could be said to be the most severe form, the offending sailor was most likely to receive a few strokes of the cane or, worse still, the whip;

They would just tie him to the mast and let him think about what he had done,but let's say that a sailor had been part of a mutiny and that mutiny had failed or what if the villains of the seas the pirates had wanted to severely attack someone what was the worst thing they could do well they could be hanged but it was a particularly type of mutiny painful hanging because instead of being dropped, the person was lifted while their head was on the rope, they were made to climb something called a yardum, which was part of the wooden cross section of the mast from which the sails are set.

There was a case of yard hanging in 1860, which happened to Royal Seaman John Dallinger on HMS 11. There were also cases where men were thrown overboard, but in one infamous case of this happening, the men They had not committed a crime, the crime was against them, it is now known as the Zhong massacre and 130 slaves were thrown overboard of a British ship and then there is the punishment that everyone will have heard about while reading books or watching movies about pirates. and that's the gruesome treatment involved in having a man walk the plank into the ocean, despite being the most recognizable punishment in the pirate era, it's mostly a thing of fiction.

Some cases have been recorded, such as that of a mutineer in the 18th century who confessed that he had made his officers walk on the plank blindfolded, but the details are sketchy and many believe it never happened. There are some cases that ring true and were reported in the newspapers of the time, but plank walking was certainly a rare thing to happen, so now we come to keel transport, which definitely happened and you. you could argue that it was a worse punishment than any of the previous ones the keel of the ship is like the backbone of the ship it is the bottom when someone is dragged under the keel this is called keel transport that person could have been dragged with ropes from one side of the boat to the other or worse still dragged along the entire length of the boat from what is called the bow and stern, as you can imagine, this would be quite unpleasant to say the least, you might think well if the operation It was short enough at least.

You could hold your breath and make it to the other side, then you could dry off, say some apologies, and get back to work, although that wasn't really the case, because being hit against the ship was a painful business, there was a good chance. bones would be broken or a head injury could mean the person would be dragged away dead. It was actually a rather extreme form of punishment because ships are generally not smooth on the surface of the hull, the part of the ship that floats on the water, these are made of wood. The hulls of the ships were covered in barnacles, which are those ultra-sharp crustaceans that stick to things.

We're sure some of you have experienced slipping on a rock and getting cut by these sharp things. Now imagine that his body is dragged against them with pressure, the keel supporting the man. He would be torn apart all over his body and could come out like a victim of Freddy Krueger. It was a fate worse than abandonment, which is when pirates simply left people to die on a desert island. Some pirates jokingly call this making someone a ruler. Sometimes weight was placed on the man so that the people pulling him would have more control over the movement of his body.

There was an advantage and a disadvantage to this: he could have missed all those sharp barnacles if he had gone low enough, but he also could have drowned. This punishment was rare, to say the least, but there have been depictions of it in paintings dating back to ancient times and the Middle Ages. There is an image that was sketched sometime in the 15th or 16th century in England. It was discussed in 1880 in the British parliament, when a politician asked the secretary to add morality to a keelboating case that had been reported in Italian newspapers; it supposedly happened on the hms alexandra, but the navy denied it had happened.

There is also a well-known painting that called Admiral Jan Van Ness' surgeon the lifting of the ship's keel, the event occurred on a ship standing in front of many spectators, but it seems that the punishment was never intended to kill the offender, but only act as a warning to others who thought about not towing. The play on words intended that expression to be a reference to the navy. Historians have written that keel transport occurred in the Dutch navy, they described as we have said that they lowered the man with pulleys and ropes into the water and tied weights to him.

He then climbed back onto the other side of the ship, although it is also written that perhaps they gave him some time to catch his breath and then he started again. This was apparently much more severe in the winter when the water was freezing and caused serious injuries. could happen because the man hit his head, it wasn't supposed to be a death sentence, although in the case of this keel transport it was under the command of a 17th century dutch admiral named yanyan savaness, we just can't find no resource telling us what the guilty surgeon had done to deserve this evil treatment.

Keel transport is described in a book called An Account of Two Voyages Made to the East Indies which was published in 1700 again. It was the Dutch who did it. Here is an excerpt from that book. Whoever hits an officer or captain of the ship, without hope of forgiveness, will be thrown into the sea tied by a rope with which he is thrown from one side of the ship and raised again from the other, and so on three times in a row. It is drawn around the keel of the ship, by doing so, if they had the opportunity not to allow the rope to sink under the keel, the evildoer could lose his brain, it seems that the further the man sank, the greater his chances would be. to keep its head intact and not be cut by barnacles, there are other cases of keel transport that were described in the diary of the Dutch admiral named Martin Harpenchun Trump in 1639, he described something similar to the above in the 18th century, a writing by a English said that the English don't I don't do it, but the French do it.

One case is described when a French sailor circled the ship five times. It was published in November 1869 in a publication called Onward Magazine. The person who witnessed this and wrote about it said that the sailor had injuries in the most serious nature or death itself, with certainty, are the result of what we could call more progressive nations that over the years have introduced forms less brutal execution. Gone are the days when crucifixion was crushed to death and people were burned at the stake, but in some countries today we will still find stoning and beheading, something most of us would call barbaric;

In fact, many human rights advocates will tell you that taking someone's life for a crime is always barbaric and that we should put an end to this bloody chapter in human history, others might just tell you that capital punishment is a necessary evil, but if you kill them then try to do it humanely, that usually means death by lethal injection, the most widespread mode of execution after today's show topic, the firing squad, okay, so let's talk a little first . More about execution methods around the world. We know we told you that people are no longer crucified, but we should say that Saudi Arabia still has a kind of post-mortem crucifixion which means beheading someone, let's say, for practicing that ancient thing.

It is called witchcraft and then planting the head on the body and crucifying the accused evildoer. We could call this a modern iteration of a practice that dates back over 2000 years, you can still be hanged and in countries like India, Japan, Singapore, Syria and South Korea. is still a legal remedy for serious crimes, you can also be tied to a chair and shocked, but only in the Philippines, in the United States, the first has not even used the chair, undoubtedly dusty, and the law on the punishment of death is still valid. under review there where in the US for most states it is cruel and unusual punishment in the US if it is legal you will have to apply for it last time someone was electrified to death by the state without having another option was in Alabama in 2002 the last person who elected him was electrocuted in 2018 in Tennessee, his last words before the chair came to life were let's rock, it is similar in the US to the gas chamber in seven states , right now it's on the death options menu the last time someone was gassed to death in the US in 2010, but by reading articles about how long and painful this was, you can understand that many people in the The US wants it to be abolished completely so now that we get to the firing squad, what we mean by that of course is being shot dead in some nations this is simply called shooting because you can take out the part of the squad out of the equation and replace it with a singular person like a gangster execution.

This can be more or less someone walking behind a prisoner and popping one. in the back of the head in the Soviet era, this type of execution was sometimes called receiving nine grams of lead, although it seems old-fashioned, a shot in the back of the head is still performed in some nations of China. This happens, but it is veiled. Secretly, a US news report in 2018 described him this way after watching a video surrounded by dozens of security personnel in which he is forced to kneel and then shot in the back of the head so he knows, according to Amnesty International in 2018, the countries with the most executions from fifth to first were Iraq with 52 plus Vietnam with 85 plus Saudi Arabia with 142 Iran with 253 more and first China with 1000 plus the United States ranked seventh with 25.

Death by firing squad could still occur in many nations too many to mention, but like the US, it could be a secondary option behind the default method of lethal injection, saying some inmates might think it is at least quick, maybe the authorities don't like the blood and the public doesn't like the sound of it. but news reports in 2018 told us that four death row inmates in Tennessee had requested the firing squad; it's not legal there but inmates filed a lawsuit saying that under the 8th amendment they had the right to challenge electrocution right now in the US only three states still offer death by gunshot as an option and they are mississippi , Oklahoma and Utah, as we said, not all firing squad deaths are created equal.

You may have seen the film about the man who shot in Thailand for many years, called the last executioner, which showed a man perfecting his craft. Over the years and for the sake of the prisoner, trying to get the job done quickly in Thailand, prisoners were given a machine gun in the back, but the country has since adopted lethal injection, but when we say squad we generally mean a group of people, of course, this could at least ensure that a few bullets ensure death, but many cases can be found where the prisoner did not die or at least needed a few more bullets.

Nowadays this is unlikely to happen because men are not simply lined up against a wall. and soldiers shooting randomly from a distance is now a precision operation in the old days, in fact it may not be fast at all, we are told that the first types of firing squads could be found in ancient cultures, but as the weapons were not invented the weapon of choice was a crossbow, the Romans and Vikings did this and we could consider that it was probably a blessing for the prisoner given that death could have come from being boiled alive or something even more gruesome as seen in our programs on the punishments of In the past, in Europe, once guns were invented, it is possible to find people executed with a bullet and then by firing squad.

This was used a lot in the early 20th century, sometimes for acts of betrayal or soldiers walking away from battle. One of the most controversial cases is the British in the First World War who ordered the execution by firing squad of 346 of their own soldiers and imperial troops. These men were put against the wall and shot for reasons of desertion and cowardice, although now they are He thinks it is not surprising that they were suffering from PTSD and depression during the American Civil War many enemies met the firing squad but we can only find one case where an American man was shot for desertion and it was in the second world war his name was eddie slovik and although he said he was too scared to continue fighting on a cold January morning in France in 1945. 12 of his fellow soldiers fired 11 bullets into various parts of his body.

It took him 15 minutes to die. Now you might be thinking: hmm, then a man must have done it. he had a pretty poor shot or maybe he was a soulcompassionate, that is not the case at all, the reason why 12 men hit him with only 11 bullets was because during the execution by the firing squad, one man is given blank bullets, no one knows who takes the bullet blank. and in hand-to-hand combat you can't really determine whether you hit the prisoner. The reasoning behind this is to lessen the responsibility to let you off the hook if you want.

This way, no soldier knows if he really had the blank that the squad might have. at least sleep better at night with plausible deniability the science of life tells us that these days the firing squad of death row inmates is a little different the website the rights to an execution the five executioners police officers certificates who remain anonymous were about 25 feet away and fired from behind a black curtain and threw a brick wall cut with a porthole or a special opening for firearms the bullet that did the job fired from a rifle 30 caliber Winchester was pierced through the heart, no one knew who had fired that fatal shot As again one of the guns fired blanks, we say no one knew, but you will find people who don't believe that and say most shooters will know if they had blank bullets due to lack of recoil, the prisoner in this case had chosen a firing squad. about lethal injection, explained why I like the firing squad, it's much easier and there are no mistakes, he said in an interview, sounding as if a Utah expert's execution menu in the past had consisted of hanging and also mafia style chokers, so maybe relatively speaking firing The Squad was a walk in the park.

Has anyone ever survived the firing squad? Probably what you want to know now, as we told you, there are many cases where a man took a hail of bullets and simply did not die, but actually walked. away, as it's quite a difficult task to evade death with a group of men shooting at you and then shooting at you some more when they see your ears move and then a little more when you expel a bubble of blood from your mouth, we can barely find a unique case, that's because if you survive all the rounds, what normally happened in the past was what we call the coup de grace, the killing blow, which means a close-up bullet to the head.

There is a famous case of a man who went through all of that and finally came out successful and that is the story of a Mexican revolutionary called Wenceslau Mogel alias el fusilado which means that the one executed in 1915 during the Mexican revolution was sentenced to death by a platoon by firing squad and was shot nine times, he was not completely dead and said that an officer walked up to him and shot him in the face. He actually showed up at Ripley's and you can see what he looks like after surgery. He said he lived a full life, but you can also see.

He literally took some on the chin since his new face looks like it was modeled with putty by a child. You can see the bullet hole under his eye and after seeing Mr. Miguel you will wonder how he survived his ordeal. We have summarized it for you. In our series of worst punishments, despicable things that men have done to each other in the name of justice, often a very baffling kind of justice, many of the punishments we have discussed were used at different times in history and in different countries, and each purveyor of pain put their own spin on punishment, the Chinese, for example, skinned the flesh from an enemy's back in ancient times, but they might have simply skinned a person's face as a severe reprimand. , while a crime de les majeste in 14th century Europe might have had you skinned from head to toe then castrated and then decapitated for good measure yes, these shows can be hard to swallow, but we think the barbarism The past should not be ignored, so we will begin this series with a torture that is often said to be the worst type of torture that has ever existed in recorded history, we say that, but it is not easy to invoke the superlative when there is people who have their skin removed after boiling them in a pot, maybe burning them at the stake was better than modern white torture, at least it's over. quickly, so we won't say what the worst is and we certainly won't try to tell you what was the best, but we'll start with the rat torture just because it's so outlandish with this kind of official evil that we have to pick apart the myth. of the truth or at least try to support the truth with substantial facts, what we can safely say is that a type of rat torture was perhaps the type of incidental punishment, because something called the dungeon can be found in the tower of london of the rat writers in the Elizabethan period said that what would happen is that the prisoners would be kept in the dungeon and when the river Thames rolled in the water would spill into the cell, the prisoners did not like it very much this time as the water would bring rats with it. and those rats would occasionally bite the prisoner's flesh, we assumed that the guards knew this was happening maybe this was better than being locked in a small cell called a little facility because the prisoners in this place had to stay for a long time crouching in one position painful It could have been worse after a stint with the rats, you might have been sent to the rack, we're told in the 17th century, although those bloodthirsty English elites cleaned up their act a bit, now it gets even worse, we'll talk about it . the ultimate rat torture or perhaps the ultimate rat torture the book the rise of the dutch republic a history volume 1 by john lothrop motley is considered a classic book in this book it is written that during the dutch revolt against the spanish hapsburgs in the centuries 16 and 17 For centuries, master torturer and leader Dierich Sunay was caught doing the worst kind of things imaginable with a pack of vermin.

This man said he would take a bunch of hungry rats and place them in the cut belly of a prisoner who would be held in the stomach with an upside down bowl so far so good, probably tickled him a little and maybe a rat gave him a bite now and then, but then the fun began for sonae at least when embers were placed on top of the bowl, this not only burned the victim, but made life inside that bowl unbearable for the rats hmm, where to go when there is no escape, we were told that what would happen is that the rats would try to burrow into the man's stomach to escape the heat, although we are not sure to what extent the rats or if this was torture to death or if it was just a way to extract information from a prisoner, you can be sure that the prisoner did not hold back much, if that were the case, the torture museum website, which is hardly a barrel.

Laughter tells us that this method was very effective in terms of interrogation and the criminal felt a powerful combination of disgust, fear and pain, often confessing without waiting for the rodents to dig holes in him. A similar type of torture appeared in the second season of Game of Thrones, but the ceramic bowl was replaced by a metal bucket. They also tell us that in many parts of medieval Europe you may have encountered something similar, but the rats would be placed in a cage in the stomach of a prisoner and the opening in the belly would be closed.

It will not be easy enough for the rats to begin to eat the inside. The problem with this is that we can't find any sources that cite historical examples of when this happened, but if you consider that Europeans back then had wheel-breaking, knee-splitting head crushers, and the absolutely horrible judas cradle, it doesn't take much. imagination to believe that someone might have said at some point in the past something along the lines of hey everett, how about we make a bunch of hungry rats eat your guts, you might have heard your coworker's response, oh jeffrey , that's a great idea, do you know where we can find a small cage in a rat bag?

As you well know, if you want to find creative types of torture, just read. about ancient rome oh the things they did with animals there imagine being sentenced to death sitting on an elephant and to make matters worse in front of a cheering crowd or how about being sewn to a donkey but they also tell us that emperor A Nero especially liked animals to bury themselves in people. Some sources tell us that an animal, such as a cat, a dog (we assume it is small), or even a rat or rats, was placed in a cauldron; That cauldron was heated until the crazed animal was satisfied.

Unfortunately, for some people, anything could come out, the only way out was a person's stomach that was placed next to an opening in the pot. Other sources tell us that there was another Roman twist on rat torture and this was simply emptying out many starving people. rats in a barrel where a man was waiting, the hungry rats would get to work and the more blood and flesh that came out, the easier it would be to eat it when the rats were full, more hungry rats would be poured into the barrel, we imagine this going on until nothing left of the poor man, the torture museum tells us that later in India there was a similar interrogation technique in which they forced a man to wear rat pants, these were pants with a lot of room in the groin area but not A along the legs, hungry rats feasted on the crown jewels until the suspect was willing to talk, while such torture, we would like to hope, is a thing of the past.

He said that rat torture was actually a thing not long ago during the Brazilian military. In the days of the dictatorship from 1964 to 1985, dozens of people or dissidents were said to have been subjected to horrific torture, while tractors often seem to have a knack for making people disappear. They tell us that in Brazil in those days they were also brutally tortured. The strange thing is that Guardian wrote in 2014 that many of these Brazilian military went to the United Kingdom to learn better torture techniques, but what they learned there was that psychological torture works better because it can make a prisoner release more slowly, but this does not It was so scary.

Like the torture we've talked about so far, where the torturer used rats or snakes or even crocodiles just to scare the prisoners, we suppose that simply being covered in rats or having a crocodile as a cellmate is scary enough, maybe those Brits were onto something today. Punishment is perhaps the best known of the most unpleasant ways in which people were executed in the past. There is arguably no more well-known case than that of would-be king-killer Damian, who in 1757 in France, after failing to assassinate King Louis XV, was punished to the extreme. The Rights of Man Thomas Paine later wrote about this terrible cruelty, as did the French philosopher Michel Foucault, who said that such a grim spectacle of violence was a turning point in the way we punish people.

Damian was first forced to wear boots that crushed his feet and then had his hand restrained. The knife that tried to kill the king was dipped in molten lead, after which it was cut open and hot oil was poured into its wounds. Then they tied his limbs to horses and slowly and with some effort pulled them off, finally apparently still breathing in his torso. was burned at the stake after hearing that you might agree that humanity has advanced in some ways and as we said, Damien's case upset a lot of people at the time, it was barbaric to the extreme and although the stories They differ on how Damian died, is that the case? at the stake or when his last limb was torn off, even the most avid spectator of executions in those days would mutter something like hmm, I think that might have been too much, it was a fact that those who attempted to kill a king known as regicide would receive the worst kind of punishment, but what happened to Damian sickened some people to the point that, as Fucor points out in his book Discipline and Punishment, they were calling for reforms, this is what an Italian author and adventurer who saw the execution said that we had the courage to contemplate the awful sight for four hours.

Several times I was forced to turn my face and cover my ears while listening to his heart-rending screams. Half of his body had been torn from him before his death. at least he hadn't lost his sense of irony, apparently saying the joni serra, which most translate as the day will be difficult, but it could also be that it will be a difficult day, you won't disagree with daniel here if they crush your feet and hands melt. Red-hot pliers poke holes in you, and pouring hot oil on your wounds isn't punishment enough. Being torn apart could certainly be called the icing on the cake.

It is actually written that the horses did not do the job correctly and someone had to come in. there with a knife to cut the stubborn tendons, it was certainly a pretty daytough, but now we might wonder how many other unfortunate people in this world have had an equally bad day if the French went too far in the middle of the 18th century, their neighbors and often mortal enemies, the British had been giving people bad days For a long time, in fact, it was said that it was the British who devised the punishment we now call hanging and quartering.

It's called that because the way these Brits would do it. What is done is to pull or lure the man to a place where he would normally be hanged, but only to the point of death, not actual death. The drawing part was to drag the criminal into the crowd so he could mock and feel the fear of this kind of thing. The punishment was reserved for people who had committed high treason, people called traitors to the state. Now, for the final part, dismemberment, not all executions were exactly the same, but usually a traitor had his manhood removed with a knife, he They ripped out his entrails, ripped out his evisceration, and then cut him into four pieces or like what happened to Damion, his four limbs were separated by horses, just in case, what was left was sometimes burned at the stake, other times not.

It was burned, but the torso or head was left hanging from the London Bridge just As a reminder to anyone who might go against the State, sometimes the four members are sent to the four corners of the country. You'll find some people calling this the worst execution ever, but let's be real if you've seen them all. In our programs about terrible punishments it is difficult to pick a highlight, the worst thing of course is that it often does not end quickly and, as with Damion, the prisoners can survive many cuts, tears, burns and sometimes, They may even have some left when they are almost limbless.

We are told that in England and many other places in Europe those charged with dispensing justice would decide how long it would last if they took pity on someone, strangle them or hang them to death, and then do the unpleasant job. On the other hand, they also knew it. how to keep someone alive during the worst If a prisoner was really lucky, they could accidentally be killed while being hanged, something we will discuss later. Another famous example of this torturous execution was that of William Wallace, the Scottish knight warrior. I have seen the movie Braveheart, but remember that when Hollywood makes history, you could say that the interpretation is so vague that it barely understands the countries well.

Wallace fought the law and the law won. He was found guilty of treason in 1305, although he famously said: How can I be a? Traitor, if I am not a subject of England, Wallace had led the fight for Scottish independence against the English and King Edward the First. On August 23 of that year, Wallace was stripped naked and dragged through the streets of London by a horse, without No doubt the locals were shouting with joy as they dragged the accused Scottish scoundrel away, he said they then hanged him but took him down still alive and very conscious, then cut off his penis, after which the executioners tore out his guts, those entrails were burned while a dying wallace He was forced to watch the operation, then cut in four and his head cut off, which could have been a great relief.

His head was dipped in tar and stuck on a pike on London Bridge so everyone wouldn't see the kind of view you have. We'll see these days during a spin on the London Eye, but this was the brutal past and the laws were there mostly as a deterrent, the harsher the punishment the less people broke the law, rehabilitation didn't really exist in that So, many people in Britain alone suffered this fate, but as we said, some had a less painful experience under Queen Elizabeth. The first said that many Catholic priests were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered.

This could have been the golden age of artistic poetry. by william shakespeare but lizzie didn't like some of those pesky catholics those accused of being part of a polish catholic plot lost their limbs this also happened in 1681 to the archbishop of armagh named oliver plunkett under the reign of charles ii sometimes spies went that way too, like some people accused of sympathizing with revolutions, obscene punishment was supposed to keep people scared or tame, but as is often the case, such extreme behavior can make people go against the State. It is also said that during those difficult centuries many people loved a good execution, sometimes thousands of people filled the streets and sometimes even tried to tear off pieces of the corpse for themselves, so they had a trophy many years later, it was said that there were Some cases of hanging, quartering and quartering in the American War of Independence in which both sides called their enemy a traitor, we cannot go over all the cases as there are many, but some historians agree that the first was in England in 1283 , a group of Scottish rebels, as we said, was that some time later, as were some people who had joined the peasant revolt in 1381.

The 16th century was a good year for hanging, drawing and quartering, but not long after 17th century, a group of guys tried and failed to blow up the British parliament which is the famous story of Guy Fox in the gunpowder plot, still today some British people get together on November 5th and burn an effigy of a fox on a bonfire Since we said the plot failed and Fox was captured and tortured, he and other conspirators were sentenced to die in a horrible way in 1606, first they would be dragged back through the city and have their heads beaten, then when the judge said, they would be executed halfway between heaven and earth for being unworthy of both, that meant the part about not killing where they are.

They hanged them, then removed their genitals, and then burned them right in front of their eyes. Then they cut the men open and took out their intestines, but this time they also asked the executioner to rip out their hearts. It is written that the most famous. The tracer fox was actually lucky because his rope was attached incorrectly and when he was hanged he broke his neck, as we said you can see effigies of dolls meant to look like Guy Fox's humans being burned every year in the UK. Now we could continue. about uprisings in Britain and falls of the so-called merchants, but we think that now you have an idea of ​​what this operation was like, as we said, in the latter part of the 18th century and some people were beginning to ask if this punishment was not a little inhumane, The United States would call it cruel and inhuman punishment and in general more developing countries began to resort more to deprivation or prison than deterrence with a spectacle of violence in Britain, some sources say a man named David Tiree it was the last one. man who received the punishment in 1782.

He received the full amount after being accused and convicted of spying for the French. This is written about that day when he was sentenced to be taken to the place of execution and there hung by the neck, cut alive and his entrails and private members were cut from his body and his sight was burned his head to be cut off and his body to be divided into four quarters and disposed of at the king's will apparently 100,000 Britons flocked to fathers, mothers, sons and daughters to cheer this on. However, outright brutality was going out of fashion as Europe was becoming much more reasoned and enlightened in the 19th century.

Brit said enough is enough, maybe we let the evisceration of manhood fall apart and just lure people into the streets and then hang them until they are killed or cut off their heads. This happened in 1803 and the victim's name was Edward Despard Le. They commuted the sentence from the first to hang, take out in quarters, to the second, simply take out and kill quickly. He was a high-ranking soldier who had said he was stationed in Honduras. During the days of the empire, some members of the ruling class considered him problematic since he granted some rights. to slaves and embraced an unusual idea of ​​racial equality at the time.

He married a black woman and then greatly upset some of the British rulers when he said that he treated blacks the same as whites; he was in charge at the time, but then, because of his terrible kindness and humanity, he was sent back to England and then accused of being involved in a plot to kill the king. The largest gathering for a long time turned up for the drawing and execution 20 000 people in total it was quick and compared to the past not so horrendous an era ended and never again would the public see someone massacred in the streets while He screamed in agony he would no longer do so.

Heads decorating London Bridge and filling stomachs with hot coals or oil would never again be fashionable in the chambers of justice. It's another new day and another addition to our series of worst punishments. This time we bring you something that is definitely not for the squeamish. So if you have a weak constitution or ate recently, click on another of our videos for those brave enough. Although stay tuned for this episode of the infographic show, the worst punishments, sawed in half, people have been coming up with Ingenious ways of killing each other from people around, sometimes, although humanity turns murder into something of an art form and is particularly talented.

Artists have sought to outdo each other for millennia while inventing increasingly creative ways to kill people. The saw was first invented around the 31st century BC. C., making it one of humanity's oldest tools, while history is not sure when the saw became The nefarious purpose of torture and execution, our expert team of historians here at the infographic program has They deduce that it occurred approximately five minutes after his invention and as proof they cite the terrible nature of the man himself, which we must admit is quite convincing evidence in any case. The saw has a rich history of use as a torture and execution device with the goal of prolonging an individual's suffering for as long as possible;

After all, it would be easier to just chop off someone's limbs or decapitate them, but much less entertaining. of the oldest and most verified accounts of execution by sawing occurred during the reign of darius ii in ancient persia the half sister and wife of darius ii because that was how they came down in those days it was well known that she was the real power behind the throne and after being scorned by his daughter-in-law's brothers she ordered them to be killed, the first brother to be killed was cut in half probably while hanging upside down if you thought execution with a saw was something reserved for ancient antiquity, although then you should know that so late.

In 1848, during the Hungarian revolution, thousands of women, children and the elderly were mutilated, roasted on fire and sawn into pieces. Sawing torture comes in different varieties and the technique varies depending on the objectives. Sometimes the song is used as a form of punishment and not. Necessarily a direct execution of thieves, liars and other petty criminals in some ancient cultures, their hands or feet or perhaps entire limbs were cut off. This was not only intended to punish and deter crime, but to serve as a very visual warning to everyone else if they were thinking. about stealing a chocolate bar from a store, but you happened to see a guy with severed limbs, you'd probably think twice before stealing that precious candy.

Punishments varied, but offenders could expect to have their individual fingers cut off, or perhaps their entire hand or foot for more serious crimes. The leg or arm may be sewn shut, although perhaps just below the elbow or knee, or the entire limb may be amputated depending on the severity of the crime. You've probably heard of the expression pay well for your eight pounds of flesh, in this case it was taken quite literally, while those who are condemned to punishment through suffering were not destined to die for the experience or at least for Blood loss, as many would die from infection after sawing with the intent to kill was much more common, in that case the executioners faced a particular dilemma in that the human body is quite flexible, especially if their victim screams. and struggles in agony to solve the problem.

Many cultures became quite inventive about it. If you've seen our other episodes about punishment and torture, then you already know. The ancient Chinese were quite clever when it came to devising ways to mutilate and mutilate and when faced with the problem of cutting a flexible human victim in half, they put their best minds to the task, the obvious solution of course would simply be see a person the midsection and this turned out to be quite popular not only in China but all over the world. Loggers in particular liked to tie a victim toa tree and then sawing through the victim and into the tree itself.

Victims could also be tied to vertical wooden posts and then cut right down the middle, another technique would be to tie a person to the ground and then cut them in half using a two-person saw with heavy weights on top. of the blade to force the blade to bite into the flesh, but all of these methods quickly became boring and repetitive, and while it was satisfying to see someone sawed in half horizontally, the real prize was cutting a person vertically for many years, this holy grail of saw execution eluded humanity's best scientists and engineers until two separate solutions were found. elaborated in the far east and in europe, in china, the executioners came up with the clever idea of ​​sandwiching a person between two boards which could then be pressed together using a system of gears at the top and bottom, so that The individual would be slightly crushed between the two boards and they would flail and scream as best they could.

The task of cutting up his body was made relatively easy in Europe and the Middle East. The victims would be hanged and hung upside down, literally turning the world of torture upside down with a saw. Above his head a person would be tied to two poles with each foot attached to a pull and hands held at the bottom of those poles this kept the victim firmly in place while the executioners moved the saw between the legs and began cutting. down while the techniques varied, leading to death on the part of the mountain researchers. We quickly discovered that of the two death methods of vertical and horizontal cutting, the vertical cutting ensured that the victim stayed alive longer.

This was because when an individual was searched horizontally, he would often die from massive blood loss relatively quickly, however, when turned over. Conversely, the blood would flow to the head and ensure that the victim remained alive and conscious for much longer than normal victims killed in this way would remain alive even when the saw reached chest level and of course there was the added satisfaction to observe the victim's blood. and guts falling into their faces as they screamed in agony, it was quality family entertainment, but some curious mind wondered what would happen if you searched for a person vertically but from top to bottom, given the victims' general reluctance to rudely refuse to keep their heads still.

A style similar to that used by the Chinese was necessary, so the victims had their heads tied to a post or board and the sawing began from right to left, unfortunately for everyone involved and to the surprise of absolutely no one, this technique resulted in a fairly quick result. death, since the brain is extremely allergic to being cut, still sometimes the technique can be handed out as a mercy, sure they'll execute you by cutting it in half, but hey, they're throwing you a real bone here because you're going to be mad. From top to bottom incredibly the victims still complained that this was cruel and unusual punishment, honestly there is just no way to please some people throughout history, there have been several fans of cutting Caligula in half, the infamous and very crazy roman empire in 48d liked to have people cut in half while eating considering suffering as an appetizer for dinner the next time we are in a restaurant we know what we are going to order before the main course thanks to the fact that Caligula was completely crazy, he was not lacking in cutting off victims, as he was particularly good at creating enemies while declaring himself a god, replacing the heads of statues of the gods with his own, and generally doing whatever he wanted with the wife or daughter of anyone in its vicinity, fourteen hundred years later, in 1450 AD, the Ottoman Empire. resurrected the sawing craze under the patronage of muhammad the conqueror probably very upset with the fact that his neighbor vlad had cemented a special place in history with the amazing nickname of vlad the impaler muhammad was in his palace determined to get a cool nickname from his own muhammad the strangler doesn't sound too creepy muhammad the ripper kind of cool but also too barbaric and not appropriate for royalty muhammad the tsar hmm now there's something muhammad had the chance to put this new nickname to the test when his armies conquered Constantinople in 1453 AD Muhammad gave his army a three-day pass to do whatever he wanted with the citizens of the conquered city and for three bloody days the soldiers exercised every imaginable cruelty against the population, cutting people in half, although he was singled out and Muhammad decided that Vlad could be impaled, but he would be sawn down years later, when his army conquered another small town. 500 prisoners were sent to Constantinople, where each was sawn in two, a year earlier, although 400 Christian knights had surrendered to the Ottoman forces under the promise that their lives would be spared, Muhammad agreed and immediately changed his mind and He had each man cut in half, but despite his best efforts, Muhammad the Tsar never stuck, probably because it is a rather silly nickname and instead he would have to settle for the Sawing in Half Conqueror instead.

It has been a pillar of human history since its invention, but fortunately the practice seems to have fallen out of fashion during the 19th century. Unfortunately, humanity now has to face a future in which we will never be able to experience the joy of sawing. people in half with the wide variety of different saws that modern technology has developed, we will never see someone cut in half with a band saw, for example, or a chainsaw, and what about a water saw, a device that shoots water at such a high pressure that it can cut directly into the heart of steel, we bet the ancient torturers are shedding tears right now because they could never see this really happen, as we are aware that humanity is absolutely terrible, so keep your chin up because chances are civilization will eventually collapse. itself and we will all be cut in half by the angry robots that rule us all.

Today's delivery of incredibly unpleasant punishments that humans inflicted on other humans is something we're sure most, if not all, of you have heard of and is probably the most famous form of brutal punishment in history - crucifixion. It is the method by which Christians believed their messiah Jesus Christ was murdered and today miniature crosses have been worn around the neck, carried in pockets and fallen off walls in movies about people possessed by demons since Christianity. Widespread in countries around the world, this cruel instrument of torture has become a household item, but crucifixion has a long and complex history as well as being the cause of Christ's agony and today we will cover all the bases, the origins of the word unbearable, a word we often use.

The use to talk about the feeling of extreme pain is derived from the Latin words for cross and crucify. This method of execution was supposed to cause what we might call excruciating pain. It was also supposed to be slow and since people were often crucified wherever the public could. See, it was believed that it would act as a deterrent and make people think twice before committing a crime themselves after seeing the victim's distress. It was also intended to be humiliating. We've all seen images of people on crosses with their nether regions. tastefully covered by a piece of cloth, but this was probably never the case in real life, you were hanging with everything hanging, the crucifixion was a warning to everyone, karmic retribution written by the state, this is what you get when you mess with us, there were There are many different types of punishment that could be described as a type of crucifixion.

Impalement is sometimes said to be a form of crucifixion, although if a person is impaled on a stake, he does not live long due to punctured organs and blood loss. It is not the same as what we normally consider a crucifixion; In other cases, a person may be tied to something with a rope and then left for days until he dies again, a similar fate but without that key component of a cross-shaped implement. The origins of crucifixion date back long before Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. The Persians had been crucifying evildoers as early as 400 BC. and there is evidence that the Assyrians and Babylonians may have been crucifying people hundreds of years before the ancient Greeks were less interested. in crucifixion he prefers methods such as letting the condemned drink poison, but the historian Herodotus mentions at least one case in which he wrote that after capturing a Persian general, the army nailed him to a board and hanged him.

Alexander the Great is the only man responsible for exporting the crucifixion. from Persia and spreading it to the Western world and actually crucified thousands of his enemies, it wouldn't be long until the Romans had it in their hands and they were the ones who really perfected it, but they didn't crucify it often. his own, this terrible method of killing was usually reserved for foreigners and outside Christians, although some slaves and soldiers who had disgraced themselves could also have been crucified, a person who had been crucified often died within a few hours, there were many ways in which that a person could die, such as asphyxiation, from being hung in a way that prevented them from breathing properly, they could also have been seriously injured from beatings before being hung on the cross and simply died from their injuries once they were there, but some people managed to hold on.

For a few days, Roman soldiers were ordered to guard the places where people were crucified and if that person lasted too long, they would simply break their legs to prevent them from being able to stand upright and cause suffocation or they could simply drive a cross through the heart of the person if you wanted to know what it would be like, just imagine this, you are lying down and your hands are tied and then nailed to both sides of a cross, this not only causes immense pain but you also lose feeling in those hands. Also, due to the severed nerves, your feet would be pinned to the bottom of the beam, but in such a way that your knees were slightly bent, meaning you could push yourself up a little to relieve some pressure on the top. of your body, but remember.

Sometimes soldiers break the bones in your legs to make it even more painful and harder to hold on to. Once this initial support is lost, your arms gradually become detached from their sockets, the weight of your own body would cause expansion of the chest and lungs and failure to rise to relieve this quickly leads to asphyxiation, essentially suffocation. If you choke to death, your heart would also suffer from this weight and you could even die of heart failure before your lungs could give. No matter what killed you first, it was an agonizing way to die on some crosses.

The support could have been given in the form of a footrest, extending the time it would take you to die, sometimes taking up to a few days, so how do you do it? We know some of this existed, the simple answer is that the Romans recorded it and many historians were quite detailed about it. Some of the writers expressed that crucifixion was cruel and a crime against humanity. The Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero, who was present during many crucifixions. He wrote that it was a very cruel and disgusting punishment, although it caused a fury among the masses and it is believed that after Spartacus led a slave revolt, thousands of his followers met their end on the cross, although Spartacus himself died in battle before to have his chance. going up to the cross which was probably a preferable way to go, what crucified a person was not always a cross although sometimes it was just a pole and that was called krook simplex, then there was a version with the cross. beam attached to the top and shaped like a T and was called krus kamisa, the one most of you know and which became a symbol for Christianity was called the crooks emisa even though it was reportedly used In thousands of people, archaeologists have only unearthed a skeleton. of a man who was crucified by the Romans in the time of Jesus, met his end in the first century and after some disagreements among archaeologists it was agreed that his legs were joined with a nail, his hands were tied and not nailed, and he He probably died from asphyxiation.

Another issue that is often debated is whether the victim had to carry the cross on his own back to the place of execution. This is highly unlikely because the person often had to walk a considerable distance to the site. We know this because the Romans wrote about at least one such site: the completed cross.He generally weighed around 300 pounds, so carrying that much weight in bare feet over a long distance would probably have qualified some of those doomed men for today's World's Strongest Man competitions, it is now thought. that they could have done it. He only carried the cross beam which could have weighed about a hundred pounds but even that would not have been easy but crucifixion always resulted in death no and in fact there are written accounts of people who actually survived the Roman Jewish historian of the first century, Titus Flavius ​​Josephus.

I wrote this. I saw many captives crucified and remembered three of them as my old acquaintances. I felt very sorry about this and went with tears in my eyes to Tito and told him about them, whereupon he immediately ordered them to be taken down and taken away. The greatest care was taken for their recovery, but two of them died under the doctor's hands, while the third recovered. The problem is that he didn't write about what form of crucifixion the men had endured, it could have been a guy who didn't cause a quick death, so maybe they were some of the lucky ones who got a rest for their feet, maybe they were just tied and not nailed directly to the cross and we assume that they were not stabbed in the heart with a spear.

We will never know for sure, but most of the time no mercy was shown as no Roman wanted to be killed by an unhappy slave. One way to ensure that didn't happen was to threaten them with the possibility of crucifixion thanks to the Roman. Tacit historian we know about a slave who killed his master, a revered Roman senator, as punishment the slave was to be killed by crucifixion, but the Romans wanted to make an example of this case and crucified another 400 of the murdered man's slaves , many of whom were Women and children, the reasoning was that the slaves should have protected their master and, because they allowed the murder to occur, they too were complicit and had to be severely punished.

This, they said, would inspire other slaves to help if something like this happened again. Tacitus wrote about this case in a book called the annals and described the senator's statement about which of us will be rescued by his servants, who even with the fear of punishment before them do not consider our dangers, not all people were so tough in that then, but Tacitus wrote. that many people protested the murder of women and children were not listened to and the executions went ahead a mob gathered and protested again but the guards were called and the mob was subdued it sounds like things haven't changed much since then the grotesque case of a 13 year old girl who was crucified a couple of hundred years later her name was eulalia de barcelona during the persecution of christians she was tortured 13 times first they rolled her in a barrel full of spikes and fragments of glass and then they whipped her just in case, if that were not enough, his now torn flesh was combed, not with a plastic comb, but with an instrument made of iron with sharp teeth, we will not talk about the whole ordeal, but it was followed by his being. crucified and then beheaded centuries later the Japanese introduced crucifixion and as is known in 1597 26 Christians were crucified in the 1860s a young Japanese man was crucified with his legs spread like an eagle and in fact there is a photograph of this, the title describes him as the servant sokichi crucified in the 25th year for killing niki sasuro, son of his master nuiski in the village of kiso, killing the masters again was a crime of which an example should be given early In the 19th century, a missionary working in Burma said it happened there, this is what he wrote and we have To warn you, it's pretty grim, four or five people after being nailed through their hands and feet to a scaffold, first they cut out their tongues, then they opened their mouths from ear to ear, then they cut off their ears and finally they opened their bellies over the course of a century.

Later, an Australian named Herbert James Ringer Edwards was crucified. He was a prisoner of war and had been building the infamous Thailand to Burma railway under Japanese rule. He and other guys had been caught killing cattle for food. The Japanese soldier hung him up. They fenced a tree with wire and beat him and then left him to die, but others stole food from him and after 63 hours they took him down, he lived to the ripe old age of 86, but two others who had been hanged with him did not survive. Today, a form of crucifixion is still practiced in Saudi Arabia, although there the person is first executed by beheading and then his corpse is hung from a beam.

Amnesty International wrote that the body with the detached head sewn on is hung from or against the pole. in public to act as a deterrent, the year is 1626 and a husband and wife were sleeping peacefully in their warm bed, oblivious to the fact that an exceptionally cruel and completely deranged thief was about to change their lives forever, the sleeping couple who I had enjoyed the comfort. and wealth their entire lives were in terrible shock, they were about to be confronted by a man who was not only going to take away all their valuables but was going to present them with one of the most evil devices known to man, known as the choke pair, but we think its alternative name is more appropriate given the pain it inflicted on its victims and that name is anguish pair and today, dear viewers, you will see how horrifying this little contraption must have been for those who used it .

Let's go back to the sleeping couple, they were woken up by the thief whose intention was not to silently rob the couple and flee into the night, but to wake them up and demand to know where they were hiding their most valuable belongings to do this. to get them to talk, but he never had much success cutting off fingers and punching people in the face, it was his good luck that he had recently been introduced to a new method of ensuring cooperation. A while ago he met a fellow thief in a tavern - a thief who said he had always had a 100 success rate in extracting information from his victims - the man explained that to get people to talk it was not enough to simply hit them a little, which What was needed was such a brutal device.

The very idea of ​​this would make people talk in seconds if they didn't talk immediately. The solution was simple to start the device at notch 1. The man explained that no one at all could stand notch 2. Then the thief He woke up the couple and told them in no uncertain terms that they needed to take him to the stash of jewels that he knew they had hidden, as expected the husband said there was no stash, just take what you see and please leave us alone, he said to the thief after saying those words. the thief took something out of a bag the man and his wife had no idea what they were looking at it looked like a pair a pair made of metal connected to some kind of key the thief explained to them calmly and we should say with a certain amount of savoring that in In a minute or two one of them would be testing the device, the woman screamed just thinking about it which helped the thief make his decision about who would experience his beloved partner's heartbreak first, we won't explain what happened next, your imagination.

You should be able to tell the rest of that story, if you can't see how that thief could have gotten the information he wanted, you'll soon discover that the pair of heartbreak wasn't something to be taken lightly, sometimes it was. It's only used as a joke, but if that screw is ever turned multiple times, the results could literally leave your jaw dropping to the question: did that happen? Was it ever used in a Hollywood horror form? Some people think yes, others think no, first us. I need to talk about the first recorded uses of this terrible pair.

Some of the gadgets are currently in museums, but evidence of their use is still somewhat scarce. Still, we have some evidence to work with. There is a book that was written in 1639 by a Frenchman. author named f de calvi the book in english is translated as general inventory of the history of thieves in this book the writer claims that the pair was invented by a known thief named gushru of palioli the writer explains that palioli used the device to rob parisians rich, although Calvi does not say that the victims had their jaws broken, only that it was used as a very terrifying type of gag, there is more evidence that this device was used for robberies, but outside of France in the book Diccionario del vulgar de 1811.

In the language it is written that the couple was used to extort people in Holland, another book written in the late 19th century called Brewer's Dictionary of Phrases and Fables also included a passage describing how Dutch criminals put the couple in the victim's mouth and then demanded a certain amount of money. What's scary is that the book explains that in some devices the key was removable, so if the criminal wanted he could leave the pair in the victim's mouth without the key. , it was very difficult or impossible to remove and so the cash could be extorted such an instrument of torture may have arrived in the US at some point during the 19th century, but that is debatable.

A detective working in Boston in the late 19th century admitted that pairs had been used as gags in the US, but noted that they were not as cruel as the gags that had been used in Europe. The detective wrote that the American pair was much less wonderful and dangerous than the Palioli pair. The American pair of angst was probably comparable to a pool ball or a sock. Something more frightening is that during medieval times the couple was used to extract confessions from people accused of witchcraft. In this case, the majority of people who confronted the couple were women.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out why. another way such an instrument. could have been used to cause immense pain and even death, the human body has several orifices besides the mouth and they are those places where the pear was sometimes inserted or at least that is the tail it was once told. He turned the key, the petals opened. and the woman would suffer with unimaginable frequency, the petals would have spikes attached to them to cause extensive internal damage. We know this from the artifacts that you can find today in torture museums, those artifacts are very real, but as you will see, they are also questionable men.

It seems that they could also suffer similar torture, except that the orifice chosen in their case was the entrance into the rear. The result of the torture was similar immense pain, internal damage and great blood loss, possibly death. This is what we hear about the Angst Couple when visiting certain museums, although in the 2014 book The Angst Couple Tortures Truth and Dark Medievalism, the writer states that there is no evidence that this ever happened, he even goes so far as to say Some of the devices that still exist today were actually built after medieval times, so like other torture devices we've talked about in the past, such as the Iron Maiden, they may have been created to cause fear just to show more modern people how brutal and backward people were in the past;

However, during our research we found sources that claim that pairs were used with blasphemers or even liars and in those cases the mouth was the place where the torture was carried out. The same sources say that if a woman had an intentional abortion she could also confront her peers, but the place where she had to insert herself was her vagina. As for a man, if he was accused of being homosexual, he could have been brutalized by the partner, but the location was his anus. There seems little doubt that the anguish couple were used by thieves in Europe, but if they were ever used by torturers.

In medieval times it is up for debate, it is very likely that the French thief we speak of had his own pair of anguish and there is little doubt that some Dutch criminals used them, but historians today maintain that the pairs expand in men and women.The lower orifices in the Middle Ages were possibly an invention of the propagandists who wrote in the 19th century about the terrible past. One historian writes that the surviving devices that can currently be found around the world would not have been durable enough to cause any of the internal damage we've talked about.

Although he admits that they certainly could have expanded an orifice and caused some degree of discomfort during the time he watched the infographic show videos, he may have come across some of the worst punishments humans have ever devised. Torture has been used throughout history to punish. Criminals make enemies talk or just for fun by crazy despots, but what if you were sentenced to death using a form of punishment that was quickly observed by thousands and may have even made you a household name? We're talking about the guillotine, join us as we explore the gruesome and fascinating machine that was the form of punishmentfavorite in France for almost 200 years and whether you agree with this form of punishment or not, just try not to lose your head and stay calm.

The guillotine is probably best known for its work during The French Revolution struck fear into the hearts of innocent and guilty citizens throughout France and it was a time of unrest and those condemned to death rarely had a trial, but beheading and even machines Decapitators were not new to the world at the time of the French Revolution. The revolution, beheading as punishment occurred throughout history and around the world, dating back to the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans, however, beheading was not for everyone, it began as an honorable death reserved for nobles and important people if you were someone. of lower status, you would most likely receive the ax as a beheading device, but those with true prestige were beheaded with a sword.

You had to be very important to obtain the sword either way, the result was the same. The beheading was not just Eurocentric. Punishment, whether seppuku, which is a ritual beheading with a samurai sword, was practiced in Japan from the 15th to the 19th century, regardless of whether you were a Roman samurai soldier or an English crusader. Beheading was always an option as punishment in England. Beheading gained popularity during medieval times. It was used to execute rival rulers, soldiers and merchants, but the merchants did not have high status, so they were not worthy of a normal beheading, instead they were dragged through the streets on horseback to the place of their execution. , hanging a few centimeters from death, disemboweled and finally decapitated, some traders were lucky enough to have all four limbs tied to a different horse and then torn when the horses ran in different directions, fortunately the traitor was already dead and when he was torn most of the time before the guillotine became fashionable and sped up the process. decapitation process there were other machines created to achieve this goal a machine called planck was used in germany during the middle ages and england had a similar device with a sliding ax known as halifax gallows it would seem that germany and england beat france for the chopping finally France passed on the idea of ​​the guillotine to the decapitation machine business and its namesake was Dr. joseph ignis guilleton was a professor of anatomy and a politician in paris when this famous idea occurred to him he lobbied before the national assembly in 1789 for equality and capital punishment the idea of ​​equality of life was on everyone's mind during the french revolution the Dr.

Kiyotan simply took the debate a step further, towards equality of death, he argued that it was unfair that common criminals were tortured as capital punishment, while more noble lawbreakers received quick and swift justice; some wealthy criminals might even tip their executioners to ensure they received a quick death. Dr. Guiton argued that if France was to be truly egalitarian, then those principles should extend to capital punishment and all criminals. Regardless of class, they were to be decapitated, he stated that his solution was a decapitation machine that guaranteed everyone received a quick and merciful death. He explained that the mechanism falls like lightning, the head flies out of the blood and the man no longer exists as far as punishments are concerned.

He's going to have the same experience. Josef Ignaciotan came up with the idea of ​​using a beheading machine for executions, but he was by no means an inventor or engineer, rather a man named Antoine Louis created and built the first beheading machine in France. Louis tested his machine on animals and When the new contraption was able to cleanly cut the heads of sheep and calves, it moved on to human testing. First, Louis tested his decapitating machine on the corpses of dead women and children and had great success, however, with dead human men. On the necks, the cuts never looked clean and this led Louis to go through several phases of redesign to overcome the annoying obstacles of thicker necks and denser bone in males.

Louis increased the height from which the blade fell and the blade was redesigned into a sloping triangular shape. The trick and louise machine could now cut off the head of an adult male corpse with precision and ease. It's amazing what you can do when you have a good head on your shoulders. The machine that Louis made was originally named after its creator, the However, the name Louis or Louis Setz did not stick after people associated the machine with the great doctor who came up with the idea of ​​equality in the punishment and execution, to the regret of dr. joseph ignis, the guilt of the decapitating machine was renamed the guillotine, but the French people also decided to call the machine the widow and the national razor.

The guillotine design was simple but effective. It consisted of two vertical wooden beams with a cross beam on top to which the rope to which the blade was connected was attached. Heavy weights were placed on the back. side of the blade to ensure that the blade acquired enough speed to cleanly cut the necks of the guillotine victims. The first victim of the device was Nicolas Jacques Peltier, who was executed in 1792. He was a criminal who had been sentenced to death for robbing and murdering Parisian citizens. A plastogram guillotine was erected outside the hotel de ville in Paris.

Veltier was paraded into the square. and walked towards the platform where an enthusiastic and interested crowd was waiting for his execution imagine for a moment that you are among the crowd waiting to watch for the next public execution, instead of the usual gallows, in the middle of the square there is a wooden machine 14 feet tall with a razor sharp blade hanging from the top, what the heck you could ask the person next to you but no one knows because this is the first time a contraption like this has been used in france, you watch as the scoundrel nicolas jacques partier is brought up to the platform and secured so that his head rests at the base of the wooden tower of death, then the executioner approaches instead of wielding an ax or a sword, He walks empty-handed to a lever, pauses for a moment, and then pulls the glowing blade that falls like lightning and cuts straight through the criminal's neck.

The decapitated head of the peltier falls into a wicker basket while laborers throw sawdust on the blood. -covered wooden boards the crowd erupts in applause the guillotine had become the primary form of execution for all convicted criminals in the country of france more devices were built and capital punishment by guillotine became almost as popular as egalitarianism during the French revolution at dinner At parties, people had models of guillotines in their living rooms with decapitated effigies of enemies and politicians for holidays and birthdays. Children were given toy guillotines to decapitate their dolls or mice that they had running around the house.

Poets and composers began to write and sing about what a wonderful machine it was. Bringing swift justice to all those condemned at all public executions, vendors sold souvenirs to commemorate the time families spent together watching the executions at the famous guillotine. If you planned well or knew someone important, you could even get a spot at a nearby restaurant. Called the guillotine cabaret, some people even attended guillotine executions daily. A group of somber taboo women called tricoteus were reported to sit on the scaffold and knit socks, hats and scarves between beheadings, with even the executed joining in the excitement.

There were accounts of people walking to their deaths making sarcastic jokes and dancing to the guillotine, not only were guillotine executions popular and widely attended, but guillotine operators were revered as celebrities during the French Revolution. The guillotine operators were judged by fans on how quickly and accurately they could decapitate their victims. The more beheadings the more admired the executioner was in the hearts of the spectators, the profession of guillotine executioner became a family affair, As in the case of the Samson family, the parents and children served as state executioners for multiple generations and were responsible for beheading King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette between the years 1790 and 1840.

The family was responsible for beheading thousands of people using the guillotine and could go almost as fast as him in a minute it was said that the names of the executioners were sung for all to hear and the clothes of the executioners inspired the latest fashion trends throughout France. Over the centuries it was rumored that when she cut off a victim's head, the victim was still conscious and could even move and speak. There is some truth in these statements. but not much, the brain uses about 20 of all the oxygen absorbed by the human body, once oxygen is no longer supplied to the brain, such as when the head is separated from the heart and lungs, the brain shuts down;

However, there is a small window of time in which the oxygen and blood that is present in the brain can still be used. Rumors that the decapitated heads were still conscious gained public attention when in 1793 an executioner's assistant slapped the decapitated head of charlotte corday, she was accused and sentenced to execution for the murder of her husband, viewers claimed to have seen her cheeks blush and turn red with anger this story led doctors and enthusiasts to ask the decapitated heads to blink spoke or showed signs of consciousness spoiler alert no severed heads showed any signs of consciousness experiments with decapitated heads were conducted a stop in the 20th century, however, studies in rats found that brain activity in the decapitated head can continue up to four seconds after the head is separated from the body, to the dismay of guillotine enthusiasts, it must all slowly come to an end, capital punishment.

It declined during the 20th century, however, there was a brief resurgence of the guillotine during the Nazi regime during the 1930s. 20 guillotines were ordered placed in cities throughout Germany according to Nazi records. Guillotines were used to execute more than 16,000 people between 1933 and 1945. After World War II, the guillotine was still used in France until 1977 for capital punishment. The last person executed by guillotine was a convicted murderer named Amida Jandubi. A few years later, in 1981, France abolished capital punishment entirely before his death became incredibly guitar-driven. Distraught at how the device he had envisioned and helped create became a symbol of death and terror across Europe, Github attempted to disassociate his name from the machine's principle and his family petitioned the French government to change its name, but none had success.

There were many forms of Torture and punishment are more painful than the guillotine, but few can boast deaths as rapid and numerous as those of the national knife. The guillotine instilled fear, trepidation and excitement in the hearts of the people during and after the French Revolution. No other form of capital punishment was met with such intensity. pomp and circumstance, since guillotine people tended to lose their minds over guillotine executions, just remember that if you ever find yourself on the wrong end of a guillotine, you may still have four seconds to grimace before of your decapitated head losing consciousness if you have lost.

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