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The Most Horrific Execution Methods Throughout History (Warning Graphic)

Which is the worse way to die?

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Felt bad reading the Armenian genocide,this world is such garbage. How many even know of that incident?
 
MXZT said:
Breaking Wheel

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The breaking wheel or execution wheel, also known as the Catherine wheel or simply the Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through Middle Ages into the early modern period by breaking a criminal's bones and/or bludgeoning them to death. The practice was abolished in Bavaria in 1813 and in the Electorate of Hesse in 1836: the last known execution by the "Wheel" took place in Prussia in 1841. In the Holy Roman Empire, it was a "mirror punishment" for highwaymen and street thieves but was also set out in the Sachsenspiegel for murder and arson that resulted in fatalities
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The description of this method, here, doesn't do it justice. This is among the most grotesque and horrific of them all. They weren't just placed atop the wheel. The wheel itself was made out of a heavy iron or wood, and would be used by the tortures to slowly break/pulverize the victim's bones until he his body was jelly. They would sometimes drop the wheel from a height of 10+ feet to achieve this. Start at the feet Then the ankles. Up they'd go. Some wheels had large spikes on the outside. Once the victim's bones had been broken so completely their body had no more form they would impale them on these outside spikes, wrapping the body around the wheel, and then roll it down a hill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel#Execution_by_wheel
 
no fat chicks said:
Humans, you nasty.



Boggles the mind how low we are able to stoop when we work together.
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Well, think of it this way.

We split the atom. An incredible achievement.

What do we do with that achievement? Pretty much 2 things.
1: Boil Water
2: Kill People

_Humans
 
Madmick said:
The description of this method, here, doesn't do it justice. This is among the most grotesque and horrific of them all. They weren't just placed atop the wheel. The wheel itself was made out of a heavy iron or wood, and would be used by the tortures to slowly break/pulverize the victim's bones until he his body was jelly. They would sometimes drop the wheel from a height of 10+ feet to achieve this. Start at the feet Then the ankles. Up they'd go. Some wheels had large spikes on the outside. Once the victim's bones had been broken so completely their body had no more form they would impale them on these outside spikes, wrapping the body around the wheel, and then roll it down a hill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel#Execution_by_wheel
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Sorry if my description sucked. But I agree that's horrific, one of if not the worst way to die.
 
Madmick said:
The description of this method, here, doesn't do it justice. This is among the most grotesque and horrific of them all. They weren't just placed atop the wheel. The wheel itself was made out of a heavy iron or wood, and would be used by the tortures to slowly break/pulverize the victim's bones until he his body was jelly. They would sometimes drop the wheel from a height of 10+ feet to achieve this. Start at the feet Then the ankles. Up they'd go. Some wheels had large spikes on the outside. Once the victim's bones had been broken so completely their body had no more form they would impale them on these outside spikes, wrapping the body around the wheel, and then roll it down a hill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel#Execution_by_wheel
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I posted a pretty graphic firsthand account from the 17th century toward the beginning of the thread. When I first came across it I felt compelled to write it down to keep for myself.
 
Testosterone. Estrogen sure as hell doesn't push people to be this barbaric. Women could never dream of being this frightening.
 
Ice That Jaw said:
Testosterone. Estrogen sure as hell doesn't push people to be this barbaric. Women could never dream of being this frightening.
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Sounds like you never met my ex-fiancee.
 
Impalment is the worst for me. I've read that victims would sometimes survive for up to a week impaled on the spear..
 
MWB1982 said:
Impalment is the worst for me. I've read that victims would sometimes survive for up to a week impaled on the spear..
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Why don't they just die? Stupid idiots
 
Have you guys heard of Scaphism?
Enjoy. :)

The first mention of scaphism is Plutarch's description of the execution of Mithridates:

[The king] decreed that Mithridates should be put to death in boats; which execution is after the following manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and answer each other, they lay down in one of them the malefactor that suffers, upon his back; then, covering it with the other, and so setting them together that the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and the rest of his body lies shut up within, they offer him food, and if he refuse to eat it, they force him to do it by pricking his eyes; then, after he has eaten, they drench him with a mixture of milk and honey, pouring it not only into his mouth, but all over his face. They then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that settle on it. And as within the boats he does what those that eat and drink must needs do, creeping things and vermin spring out of the corruption and rottenness of the excrement, and these entering into the bowels of him, his body is consumed. When the man is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were, growing to his inwards. In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired.

— Plutarch, Life of Artaxerxes[5]
The 12th-century Byzantine chronicler Joannes Zonaras later described the punishment, based on Plutarch:

The Persians outvie all other barbarians in the horrid cruelty of their punishments, employing tortures that are peculiarly terrible and long-drawn, namely the 'boats' and sewing men up in raw hides. But what is meant by the 'boats,' I must now explain for the benefit of less well informed readers. Two boats are joined together one on top of the other, with holes cut in them in such a way that the victim's head, hands, and feet only are left outside. Within these boats the man to be punished is placed lying on his back, and the boats then nailed together with bolts. Next they pour a mixture of milk and honey into the wretched man's mouth, till he is filled to the point of nausea, smearing his face, feet, and arms with the same mixture, and so leave him exposed to the sun. This is repeated every day, the effect being that flies, wasps, and bees, attracted by the sweetness, settle on his face and all such parts of him as project outside the boats, and miserably torment and sting the wretched man. Moreover his belly, distended as it is with milk and honey, throws off liquid excrements, and these putrefying breed swarms of worms, intestinal and of all sorts. Thus the victim lying in the boats, his flesh rotting away in his own filth and devoured by worms, dies a lingering and horrible death.

— Zonaras, Annals[6]
 
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