in the past people who committed crimes and even those who were just accused of those crimes were given crazy and terrible punishments cruci fiction in the Middle Ages it was common to nail or tie people to a wooden cross and then leave them out in the open so that everyone could see them die a slow painful death the story of Jesus Christ's execution shows this it was used as a punishment by the Persians carthaginians and Romans among others the best thing about crucifixion was that it scared people so so much that they wouldn't do anything
bad or rebel against the government the Brazen bull this method was created by the ancient Greeks and was also known as the Sicilian bull because it was first used in Sicily it was made of metal and looked like and was the size of a real bull the bull was said to be Hollow and made entirely out of bronze with a door on one side the person who was being punished would be locked inside and fire would be lit under the bull heating the metal until the person inside was roasted to death this machine also had
systems that could turn the screams of the criminal into the sounds of a bull flang flang literally means to skin something in the past people were often punished or tortured by being skinned alive instead of killing them it depended on how much skin was cut off they either died or became mentally scarred and could never walk again Mesopotamia was known for this way of torturing people in the same way people were punished by having pieces of skin cut off of them [ __ ] wasn't crazy when he made that demand after all H using rats
there's still people who like to torture or kill others with rats but there were more of them in the past there was a thing called rat trap where a rat would be put inside a cage one side of the cage would be closed and the other side would be opened the open side of the cage would then be placed on the criminal's body usually around the stomach side the closed side of the cage would then be heated with fire and the poor rat would slowly eat away at the victim's skin to make room for itself
because the other side was simply too hot the braking wheel in the past the Broken Wheel was another way that people were put to death from ancient times to the 19th century the breaking wheel was mostly used in Europe to torture people and put them to death in public it was also called the punishment wheel the wheel of Catherine or the St Catherine's Wheel this very basic tool was just a wheel with spikes or chains that were used to the prisoners to the guilty person would be hid in the arms with a club or cuil
and as the wheel turned his bones would slowly break causing him to die in unbearable pain impalement in the Middle Ages it was not only normal but also popular to impale someone with a pike pole spear hook or stake people who have been found guilty of treason or crimes against the state would be punished in this way during wartime impalement was also used used to put down rebellions punish spies or collaborators and punish soldiers who didn't follow orders and people did come up with a lot of ways to use this method of punishment in this
horrible way different body openings would be used for different crimes but they all led to a very painful death in the end crushed under an elephant in South and Southeast Asia especially India criminals were put to death by being crushed under an elephant during public executions elephants were used to Crush dismember or torture Prisoners the animals were taught to either kill their prey right away or torture them slowly over a long time sometimes the elephants were made to just dismember the convict and not completely kill him most commonly employed by royalty the elephants were used
to signify both the ruler's power of life and death over his subjects and his ability to control wild animals abused by wild animal to death the citizens of ancient Roman Empire were huge fans of entertaining shows and nothing makes for a more entertaining show than watching animals kill people by mauling them to death especially if it happens to be a woman then she would be sexually abused by wild creatures that have been trained specifically for the purpose of doing sexual acts against her until she finally succumbed to death s in half in the past people
were often put to death by being s in half in places like the Roman Empire Spain and some parts of Asia this way of killing people was used people were also disemboweled which meant that their organs were taken out while they were still alive which slowly killed them there are different ways that people have been killed by sawing when it comes to cases involving the Roman Emperor calcula The Cutting is said to be Travers through the middle this method is like the old Chinese way of putting people to death by cutting them around the waist
in the cases of Morocco it is said that sawing was lengthwise both from the groin upwards and from the skull downwards death by boiling in the Middle Ages people loved to play with their meat or prisoners and of course it was cool to boil the guilty person in oil or water until they died there was no direct blood shown so it wasn't as famous as other methods but people in Europe and Asia still liked it death by boiling is a method of execution in which a person is killed by being immersed in a boiling liquid
boiling to death is a very pain F way to kill someone because it takes so long people often use a cauldron or a covered Kettle full of liquids like water oil tar or Tallow along with a hook and pulley system to carry out these kinds of tasks punished by the rack the rack is a type of torture device that has a frame that is rectangular generally made of wood and is raised off the ground just a bit one or both ends of the frame are fitted with rollers then both of the victim's wrists are chained
to one roll roller and their legs are tied to the other as the criminal is being questioned a handle and Ratchet mechanism connected to the top of the roller are used to slowly pull the chains back this puts more pressure on the prisoner's shoulders hips knees and elbows which causes unbearable pain this roller can be turned on its own axis using pulley and levers this puts stress on the ropes until the victim's joints dislocated and finally came apart also muscle fibers lose their ability to tighten if they are stretched too far which makes them useless
cropping of the ears cropping is when someone's ears are cut off as a form of physical punishment it was done along with being whipped or put in the stocks and sometimes it was done along with punishments like branding or fines croppings sometimes occurred as a standalone punishment where criminals ears would be cut off with a blade criminals ears were also nailed to the Piller and then eventually cropped as an extra punishment the idea aidea was that their movement would tear their ears off most of the time this punishment didn't kill the person who was found
guilty but in some cases they did die from an infection spread from the wound death by burning people in early ages loved a good fire and what better ways to light a fire than to burn a person at the stake one of the most popular ways to punish people accused of treason or witchcraft was to burn them alive this made a Big Show and also scared people away from per performing these crimes death by burning which is also called imulation is a way to kill someone by letting them catch fire or being exposed to high
heat it has a long history as a way to put people to death in public and many societies have used it to punish and warn people about crimes the most well-known way to kill someone in this way is by setting fire under a big wooden sake and tying the person to it if you found this journey into the depths of historical punishments intriguing don't forget to like subscribe and hit that notification Bell to stay updated on our dark Explorations into history until next time stay curious and stay informed bye for now
