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Top 10 Hideous Execution Methods
Each time you tune into any news channel, you surely get amazed to see the increasing crime rate; no matter at what level it is. The crime is not something that’s new, since the time immemorial, different type of crimes and other punishable offenses have crop up.
The guilty of crime have been punished on being proved though the ways of punishments have changed with time. Execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense is known as capital punishment or death penalty.
For capital offenses and crimes like murder, sexual crimes such as rape, adultery, incest and sodomy, carry the death penalty, drug trafficking, corruption, cowardice, desertion, insubordination, and mutiny are also capital offenses. Hold your breath, here you are about to witness some of the horrifying executions till date.
We have listed down some of the hideous torture methods throughout history. Some of the methods are so dreadful and agonizingly painful that their images can give you goose bumps.
10. Hanged, Drawn, and Quartered
From 1351 a penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, the execution of convicts by hangingdrawing and quartering was practiced. Depending on the severity of the sentence against the seriousness of the crime, the convicts were fastened to a hurdle and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged, emasculated, disemboweled, beheaded and quartered-chopped into four pieces. Not only this, their remains were displayed in prominent places across the country.
9. Flaying
Flaying is a very old torture method that was used thousands of years ago in the Middle East, Africa and even America. During the Middle Ages, it was frequently used to torture and execute criminals, captured soldiers and witches. In one version, the victim’s arms were tied to a pole above his head while his feet were tied below. His body thereby completely exposed and the tortured with the help of a small knife, peeled off the victim’s skin slowly.
8. Lethal Injection
Since 1976, when the death penalty was reinstated in the US, 788 people have been killed by lethal injection. In it an injection of three substances-sodium thiopental to induce anaesthesia, followed by pancuronium bromide to relax muscles, and finally potassium chloride to stop the heart is given.
7. Scaphism
Scaphism also known as the boats was an ancient Persian method of execution designed to inflict torturous death. Those sentenced to scaphism were stripped naked and smothered in honey, thereafter they were shacked between two sandwiched rowboats while only the head, hands and feet were left protruding.Later the accused were left with a stomach-twisting diarrhea. Chewing and stinging of insects brought insanity and the dehydration or starvation to bring death.
6. Upright Jerker
The upright jerker was an execution method and device intermittently used in the United States during the 19th and early 20th century. In this method of execution, the condemned would be violently jerked into the air by means of a system of weights and pulleys. The objective of this execution method was to provide a swift death by breaking the condemned’s neck.
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5. Slow Slicing
Slow slicing, the lingering death or death by a thousand cuts was a form of execution used in China from roughly AD 900 until its abolition in 1905. In this form of execution, the condemned person was killed by using a knife to methodically remove portions of the body over an extended period of time.
4. Death by Spanish Donkey
In this form of execution a device which consisted of a main board cut with a wedge at the top was fastened to two cross-beams. The naked victim was placed astride the main board as if riding a donkey and various numbers of weights were attached to his/her feet. On occasion, the wedge would slice entirely through the victim as a result of the immense weight attached to his or her feet.
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