Some Historical Methods of Execution


1 Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is when the state kills someone for making a big oopsie in their eyes. Crimes that are punishable by death are known as capital crimes or capital offences, and they commonly include offences such as murder, mass murder, terrorism, treason, espionage, offenses against the State, such as attempting to overthrow government, piracy, drug trafficking, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, but may include a wide range of offences depending on a country. This is a list of methods that were historically used to execute people, some of which are still used to this day. This list is supposed to be in alphabetical order. You can help this list by expanding it!
2 Beheading
Use: Literally almost everyone in history; Saudi Arabia (still used regularly), China, India, Japan, Celts, Nordic countries, Iraq, Congo, Korea, Germany, and France
Gist: Victim's head is cut off

About: Decapitation is perhaps one of the most common historical methods of execution due to its ease, potential painlessness, and ability to be publicly displayed. A variety of weapons have been used to behead people, such as swords, axes, knives, or mechanical means such as a guillotine. Execution by beheading has been used as a form of capital punishment for millennia. In fact, "capital punishment" derives from the Latin "caput", which means "head", referring to the punishment for serious offences involving the forfeiture of the head. If the headsman's axe or sword was sharp and his aim was precise, decapitation was quick and was presumed to be a relatively painless form of death. If the instrument was blunt or the executioner was clumsy, multiple strokes might be required to sever the head, resulting in a prolonged and more painful death. The person to be executed was therefore advised to give a gold coin to the headsman to ensure that he did his job with care. 

The guillotine was invented shortly before the French Revolution with the aim of creating a quick and painless method of execution requiring little skill on the part of the operator. The device consists of a tall, upright frame in which a weighted and angled blade is raised to the top and suspended. The condemned person is secured with stocks at the bottom of the frame, positioning the neck directly below the blade. The blade is then released, to quickly fall and forcefully decapitate the victim with a single, clean pass so that the head falls into a basket below. The guillotine was celebrated as the people's avenger by supporters of the revolution and vilified as the pre-eminent symbol of the Reign of Terror by opponents.
Some Historical Methods of Execution

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Some Historical Methods of Execution

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#3 Blood Eagle
Use: Scandinavia 
Gist: Individual would have their ribs severed from their spine and their lungs pulled through the opening to resemble "wings"

About: Viking sagas describe the ritual execution of blood eagle, in which victims were kept alive while their backs were sliced open so that their ribs, lungs, and intestines could be pulled out into the shape of bloody wings. Modern scholars debate how Vikings performed this ritual torture and in fact whether they even performed the gruesome method at all. The victim’s hands and legs were tied to prevent escape or sudden movements. Then, the person seeking vengeance stabbed the victim by his tailbone and up towards the rib cage. Each rib was then meticulously separated from the backbone with an axe, which left the victim’s internal organs on full display. The victim is said to have remained alive throughout the entire procedure. What’s worse, the Vikings would then literally rub salt into the gaping wound in the form of a saline stimulant. After having all of the person’s ribs cut away and spread out like giant fingers, the torturer then pulled out the lungs of the victim to make it appear as if the person had a pair of wings spread out on his back. There were two main reasons Vikings used the blood eagle on their victims. First, they believed it was a sacrifice to Odin, father of the Norse pantheon of gods and the god of war. Second, and more plausibly, was that the blood eagle was done as a punishment to honorless individuals. Written accounts often embellished the stories for entertainment, however.
4 Blowing from a Gun
Use: Mughal Empire, Portuguese, British Raj, and Afghanistan
Gist: Victim is tied to the mouth of a cannon, which is then fired and blows the victim to bits

About: Also called "death by cannon", the prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle of a cannon. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen. A commonly reported method of blowing a man from a gun is to tie him in front of the muzzle of the gun and then have him shot. Loading the cannon with an actual cannonball is on occasion reported; but, more commonly, the use of blank cartridge or grapeshot is attested. Although immobilizing a victim in front of a gun before firing the cannon is by far the most reported method, a case from Istanbul in 1596 alleges that the victim was actually put into the gun and executed in that manner. Reports exist that attest that, on occasion, people were fastened to rockets and blown into the air. 

Blowing from a gun as a method of execution has a long and varied history on the Indian sub-continent, and many reports from the mid-18th century and onwards testify to its varied use. The destroying of the body and scattering the remains over a wide area had a particular religious function as a means of execution in the Indian subcontinent as it effectively prevented the necessary funeral rites of Muslims and Hindus. Thus, for believers the punishment was extended beyond death.

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