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The result of short-drop hanging (only used in Iran in modern times). By garrote. Used in Spain and former Spanish colonies (e.g., the Philippines). Back-breaking: A Mongolian method of execution that avoided the spilling of blood on the ground [6] (example: the Mongolian leader Jamukha was probably executed this way in 1206). [7] Blowing from ...
The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.
This method of execution was uncommon throughout the time of the Roman Empire, though common during Caligula's reign, [13] when the condemned, including members of his own family, were sawn across the torso rather than lengthwise down the body. It is said that Caligula would watch such executions while he ate, stating that witnessing the ...
Capital punishment was a part of the legal system of Australia from the establishment of New South Wales as a British penal colony, until 1985, by which time all Australian states and territories had abolished the death penalty; [30] in practice, the last execution in Australia was the hanging of Ronald Ryan on 3 February 1967, in Victoria.
In medieval Europe the slow crushing of body parts in screw-operated ‘bone vises’ of iron was a common method of torture [citation needed], and a tremendous variety of cruel instruments was used to savagely crush the head, knee, hand and, most commonly, either the thumb or the naked foot. Such instruments were finely threaded and variously ...
Symbolic robed figure of a medieval public executioner at Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg, Russia Photograph (hand-coloured), original dated 1898, of the lord high executioner of the former princely state of Rewah, Central India, with large executioner's sword (Tegha sword) Depiction of a public execution in Brueghel's The Triumph of Death 1562–1563 Stylised depiction of public ...
Execution wheel (German: Richtrad) with underlays, 18th century; on display at the Märkisches Museum, Berlin The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the 19th century by breaking the bones of a criminal or ...
The two most common forms of execution in the Tang dynasty were strangulation and decapitation, which were the prescribed methods of execution for 144 and 89 offences respectively. Strangulation was the prescribed sentence for lodging an accusation against one's parents or grandparents with a magistrate, scheming to kidnap a person and sell ...