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Attitude towards crime and criminals in different eras and in different countries different, so that the severity of punishment varied. But if a person was sentenced to execution, then it was very cruel. The most cruel executions in the history of mankind evoke horror, since the condemned could die in terrible agony for weeks.

10 most brutal executions in the world

1. Chinese execution. Oddly enough, the executioners treated women with particular cruelty. One of the worst executions in history was practiced in China. The sentenced woman was stripped naked and, depriving her of support on her feet, they fixed saws between her legs.

Execution "Sawing"

The woman's hands were tied to the ring. Under the influence of gravity, the victim fell down onto the cutting edges of the saws, so that her body was slowly sawn from the womb to the sternum. The reasons for such a terrible punishment are incomprehensible to us, for example, the rice cooked by the cook turned out to be not as snow-white as the color of the owner's wisdom required.

2. Quartering. In Russia, and throughout Europe, in India, China, Egypt, Persia and Rome, this execution meant tearing or dismembering human body into several parts. The parts themselves, after the completion of the execution, were put on public display. There are many options for dividing the criminal into parts - he was torn apart by horses, bulls, treetops. In some cases, an executioner was used to cut off limbs.

Moreover, it is impossible even to single out for what type of crimes such punishment was imposed. It was often used when it was necessary to make the execution spectacular. That is why they quartered deserters and members of their families, state criminals, rapists, Christians in ancient rome etc.

3. "Tin Soldier". The Alcatraz prison went down in history as one of the most terrible prisons in the world due to executions. The leadership of the correctional institution had an unhealthy imagination, otherwise it is simply impossible to explain the appearance of the "tin soldier".

The condemned prisoner received an injection of heroin, after which he was doused with heated paraffin. At the same time, the guards put the person in a pose that was funny from their sick point of view. When the paraffin solidified, the person simply could not move anymore - it turned out to be a “tin soldier”. After that, the guards chopped off the limbs of the prisoner. Death from shock and blood loss lasted for hours, which the executed experienced in terrible agony.

4. "Cradle of Judas". Another no less cruel version of the killing of prisoners in Alcatraz is the “cradle of Judas”. The person sentenced to death was put on a pyramid, fixing his hands and body. The tip of the pyramid was placed in the anus or in the vagina, so that the structure would gradually tear the body apart. To speed up the process, weights were attached to the legs of the condemned, increasing the pressure.

This slow and painful death from blood loss and sepsis took up to several days, with weighting agents the process was accelerated to several hours. The leadership of the famous prison borrowed this barbaric method from the medieval inquisitors.

5. Keeling. For pirates, a separate set of executions was used, the most terrible of which was the keeling. The man was tied up and stretched on a rope under the keel of the ship.

Because it lasted for a long time, then the person managed to choke, not to mention the blows on the keel itself, covered with sharp mollusks, - the skin was torn off the person. However, this type of punishment for disobedience to the captain, who owned absolute power on the ship, was also practiced in the English fleet.

6. Desert island. Another world-famous pirate version of the execution - the rebels were not killed, but landed on a desert island that would feed the criminals.

Many unfortunate rebels were left for years to drag out a miserable existence on patches of land without proper food and amenities.

7. Walking on the board. This version of the execution of pirates is described in adventure novels.

The crew of the captured ship was not needed by the robbers, so they went to sea. The plank was exposed over the side of the ship, so that a person, having passed on it, fell into the sea in the jaws of waiting sharks.

8. Execution for treason. In many cultures, the punishment for adultery for a woman is death. The methods of execution vary. In Turkey, the adulteress was sewn into a bag with a cat and beaten on the bag. The mad animal tore the woman apart, and the convict died from blood loss and beatings.

In Korea, the traitor was forced to drink vinegar, and then the swollen body of the adulteress was beaten with sticks until the representative of the weaker sex died.

9. Executions in ISIS. The types of punishments adopted by ISIS (an organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation) also belong to the category of cruel ones, but they are far from the first place in the list of TOP 10 terrible executions.

Representatives of the group willingly distribute in the media photos and videos of executions by burning, beheading, which differs little from the medieval set of tortures and executions.

10. Executions for rape. Executions for rape are often far less severe than for adultery, especially for the fairer sex. However, the death of a rapist was threatened not only in the Middle Ages, this is true even now in Iran, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Pakistan, Sudan.

However, Muslim tort law sometimes causes strange decisions. There are precedents when, after rape, a girl is executed by stoning, because the victim allegedly seduced the rapist. In other countries for crimes sexual in nature the offender will be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 1 year to life imprisonment.

In Soviet times, rape by a recidivist, rape that entailed grave consequences, or rape of a minor victim was punishable by death. This law was in effect until 1997. By the way, a similar measure for the rape of a child in US state Louisiana was canceled only in 2008.

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15. Burial alive.

Burial alive begins our list of common executions. Dating back to BC, this punishment was used to individual people as well as for groups. The victim is usually tied up and then placed in a hole and slowly covered in earth. One of the most widespread uses of this form of execution was the Nanking Massacre during World War II, when Japanese soldiers mass-executed Chinese civilians alive in what was referred to as the "Ditches of Ten Thousand Corpses".

14. Pit with snakes.

One of the oldest forms of torture and execution, snake pits were a very standard form of capital punishment. The criminals were thrown into a deep pit of poisonous snakes, dying after being attacked by angry and hungry snakes. Several notable leaders were executed in this manner, including Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warlord, and Gunnar, King of Burgundy.

13. Spanish tickler.

This torture device was commonly used in Europe during the Middle Ages. Used to rip through a victim's skin, this weapon could easily tear through anything, including muscle and bone. The victim would get involved, sometimes publicly, and then the tormentors would begin to mutilate her. Usually started with the limbs, the neck and torso were always saved for completion.

12. Slow cutting.

Ling Shi, which translates as "slow cutting" or "continuous death", is described as death due to a thousand cuts. Carried out from 900 to 1905, this form of torture was extended over a long period of time. The tormentor slowly cuts the victim, prolonging his life and torture for as long as possible. According to the Confucian principle, a body that is cut into pieces cannot be whole in the spiritual afterlife. Therefore, it was understood that after such an execution, the victim would be tormented in the afterlife.

11. Burning at the stake.

Death by burning has been used as a form of capital punishment for centuries, often associated with crimes such as treason and witchcraft. Today it is considered a cruel and unusual punishment, but back in the 18th century, burning at the stake was a normal practice. The victim contacted, often in the city center with spectators, after which he was burned at the stake. It is considered one of the slowest ways to die.

10. African necklace.

Usually carried out in South Africa, an execution called the Necklace is unfortunately still quite common today. A rubber tire filled with gasoline is placed around the victim's chest and arms and then set on fire. Essentially, the victim's body turns into a molten mass, which explains why this is in the top ten on our list.

9. Execution by an elephant.

In South and Southeast Asia, the Elephant has been a method of capital punishment for thousands of years. Animals were trained to perform two actions. Slowly, in a long way, torturing the victim, or with a crushing blow, destroying it almost immediately. Commonly used by kings and nobility, these killer elephants only added to the fear. ordinary people who thought the king had supernatural power management of wild animals. This method of execution was eventually adopted by the Roman military. In this way, deserter soldiers were punished.

8. Execution "Five Punishments".

This form of Chinese capital punishment is a relatively simple act. It begins with the nose of the victims being cut off, then one arm and one foot are cut off, and finally the victim is castrated. The inventor of this punishment, Li Sai, the Chinese Premier, was eventually tortured and then executed in the same way.

7. Colombian tie.

This method of execution is one of the bloodiest. The victim's throat was cut, and then the tongue was pulled out through the open wound. During La Violencia, a Colombian period of history fraught with torture and war, this was the most common form of execution.

6. Hanging, stretching and quartering.

Execution for high treason in England, with hanging, stretching and quartering, was common during medieval times. Although torture was abolished in 1814, this form of execution caused the deaths of hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of people.

5. Cement boots.

Introduced by the American Mafia, this execution method involves placing the victim's feet in cinder blocks and then filling them with cement, followed by throwing the victim into the water. This form of execution is rare, but still performed today.

4. Guillotine.

The guillotine is one of the most famous forms of execution. The guillotine blade was sharpened so perfectly that it decapitated the victim almost instantly. The guillotine is a seemingly humane method of execution until you learn that people could potentially still be alive for a few moments after the act. People in the crowd said that the executed, who were beheaded, could blink their eyes or even speak words after their heads were cut off. Experts theorized that the swiftness of the blade did not cause unconsciousness.

3. Republican wedding.

The Republican Wedding may not be the most gruesome death on this list, but it certainly is one of the most interesting. Originating in France, this form of execution was common among the Revolutionaries. It meant binding two people, usually of the same age, and drowning. In some cases where water was not available, the couple was executed with a sword.

Since ancient times, the sophisticated mind of man has tried to come up with such a terrible punishment for a criminal, carried out necessarily publicly, in order to frighten the assembled crowd with this spectacle and discourage it from committing criminal acts. This is how the most terrible executions in the world appeared, but most of them, fortunately, became the property of history.

1. Bull Falarida

The ancient instrument of execution - the "copper bull" or "bull Falaris" was invented by the Athenian Peripius in the VI century BC. e. From copper sheets they made a huge bull, hollow inside and having a door on the side or on the back. A man could fit inside the bull. The one sentenced to death was put inside the bull, the door was closed and a fire was kindled under the belly of the bull. The nostrils and eyes of the bull had holes through which the cries of the roasting victim were heard - it seemed that the bull himself was roaring. The inventor of this instrument of execution himself became his first victim - so the tyrant Falarid decided to test the device's performance. But Peripius was not fried to death, but was taken out in time, in order to then “mercifully” be thrown into the abyss. However, Falarid himself later came to know the belly of a copper bull.

2. Hanging, gutting and quartering

This multi-stage execution was practiced in England and applied to traitors to the crown, since it was the most serious crime while. It was applied only to men, and women were lucky - their body was considered unsuitable for such an execution, so they were tritely burned alive. This bloody and brutal execution was legal in "civilized" Britain until 1814.
At first, the convicts were dragged to the place of execution, tied to a horse, and then, in order not to kill the victim during transportation, they began to be laid in front of the drag on a kind of sleigh. After this, the condemned was hanged, but not to death, but was taken out of the noose in time and laid on the scaffold. Then the executioner cut off the victim's genitals, opened the stomach and took out the insides, which were burned right there so that the executed person could see it. Then the offender was beheaded, and the body was cut into 4 parts. After that, usually the head of the executed was planted on a pike, which was fixed on the bridge in the Tower, and the rest of the body was transported to the largest English cities, where they were also flaunted - this was the usual wish of the king.

3. Burning

People have adapted to burn the condemned alive in two ways. In the first case, a person was tied to a vertical pole and surrounded on all sides with brushwood and firewood - in this case, he burned in a ring of fire. It is believed that this is how Joan of Arc was executed. In another method, the condemned was placed on top of a stack of firewood and also chained to a pole, and the firewood was set on fire from below, so in this case the flame slowly rose along the stack and climbed to the legs and then to the rest of the body of the unfortunate.
If the executioner was skilled in his work, then burning was carried out in a certain sequence: first the ankles, then the hips, then the arms, then the torso with forearms, the chest, and finally the face. It was the most painful kind of burning. Sometimes the executions were massive, then part of the condemned did not die from burns, but simply suffocated from carbon monoxide released during combustion. If the firewood was damp, and the fire was too weak, then the victim was more likely to die from heatstroke, blood loss, or pain shock. Later, people became more "humane" - before burning, the victim was hung, and an already dead body fell on the fire. In this way, witches were most often burned throughout Europe, with the exception of the British Isles.

4. Lynchy

Eastern people were especially sophisticated in torture and execution. So, the Chinese came up with a very cruel execution of linchi, which consisted in the fact that small pieces of flesh were slowly cut off from the victim. This type of execution was used in China until 1905. The sentenced was gradually cut off pieces of meat from the arms and legs, stomach and chest, and only at the very end they plunged a knife into the heart and cut off the head. There are sources claiming that such an execution could stretch for several days, but this still seems to be an exaggeration.
Here is how an eyewitness, one of the journalists, described such an execution: “The condemned was tied to a cross, after which the executioner armed with a sharp knife grabbed handfuls of fleshy parts of the body on the hips with his fingers and carefully cut off his chest. He then trimmed the tendons of the joints and the protruding parts of the body, including the fingers, ears, and nose. Then came the turn of the limbs, starting with the ankles and wrists, then higher at the knees and elbows, after which the remains were cut off at the exit from the torso. Only after that followed a direct stab in the heart and cutting off the head.

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5. Wheeling

Wheeling, or as they said in some countries, "Catherine's wheel" was widely used for executions in the Middle Ages. The offender was tied to a wheel and all his large bones and spine were broken with an iron crowbar. After that, the wheel was horizontally fixed on a pillar with a pile of meat and bones of the ground victim lying on top. Birds often came to feast on the meat of a still living person. At the same time, the victim could live for several more days until he died from dehydration and pain shock. The French made this execution more humane - before the execution, they strangled the convict.

6. Welding in boiling water

The offender was stripped naked and put into a vat of boiling liquid, which could be not only water, but also tar, acid, oil or lead. Sometimes it was placed in a cold liquid, which was heated from below by a fire. Sometimes criminals were hung on a chain, on which they were lowered into boiling water, where they were boiled. This type of execution was widely used for counterfeiters and poisoners in England during the reign of Henry VIII.

7. Skinning

In this variant of slow killing, either all the skin or some parts of it were removed from the body of the convict. The skin was removed with a sharp knife, trying to keep it intact - after all, it was then supposed to serve to intimidate the people. This type of execution has ancient history. According to legend, the Apostle Bartholomew was crucified upside down on the St. Andrew's Cross and skinned from him. The Assyrians skinned their enemies to intimidate the population of captured cities. Among the Mexican Aztecs, flaying was of a ritual nature, it often touched the head (scalping), but even bloodthirsty Indians they usually scalped corpses. This by no means humane form of execution is already banned everywhere, but in one village in Myanmar, all men were recently skinned.

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8. Impaling

A well-known type of execution, where the offender was hoisted onto a vertical pointed stake. Until the 18th century, this method of execution was used by the Commonwealth, which executed so many Zaporozhian Cossacks. But they also knew it in Sweden of the 17th century. Here, peritonitis or blood loss leads to death, and death occurs very slowly, after a few days.
In Romania, when impaling women, the instrument of execution was inserted into the vagina, then they died faster from heavy bleeding. A man planted on a sharp stake, under the influence of his own weight, descended lower and lower along it, and the stake gradually tore apart his insides. So that the victim would not get rid of the torment too quickly, the stake was sometimes made not sharp, but rounded and lubricated with fat - then it penetrated more slowly and did not tear the organs. Another innovation was the transverse bars nailed slightly below the end of the stake, dropping to which the victim did not have time to damage vital organs and, again, suffered even longer.

9. Skafism

This ancient oriental method of execution is unhygienic, but causes excruciating pain. long death. The sentenced was completely undressed, smeared with honey and placed in a narrow boat or a hollowed out tree trunk, and covered with the same object from above. It turned out something like a turtle: only the limbs and the head of the victim stuck out, which they heavily fed with honey and milk to cause uncontrollable diarrhea. A similar design was either placed in the sun, or allowed to swim in a pond with stagnant water. The object quickly attracted the attention of insects, which penetrated the inside of the boat, where they slowly gnawed on the body of the victim, laying larvae there until sepsis began.
"Compassionate" executioners continued to feed the poor fellow every day in order to prolong his suffering. Finally, he usually died from a combination of septic shock and dehydration. Plutarch reported that this is how they executed the king Mithridates, who killed Cyrus the Younger, who suffered for 17 days. A similar method of execution was used by American Indians- they tied a victim to a tree, smeared with mud and oil, leaving it to be eaten by ants.

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10. Sawing

The condemned to death was hung upside down with legs apart and started sawing in the groin area. The victim's head was at a low point, so the brain was better supplied with blood and, despite the huge loss of blood, was conscious longer. Sometimes the victim survived, being sawn already to the diaphragm. This execution was known both in Europe and somewhere in Asia. They say that the emperor Caligula loved to have fun so much. But in the Asian version, sawing was carried out from the head.