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  2. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    A slower method of applying single pieces of burning wood was used by Native Americans to torture their captives to death. [5] Molten metal. Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pavlo Pavliuk were supposedly killed this way. The execution method is associated with counterfeits (by pouring down the neck) or traitors (by pouring on the head). [6] Brazen ...

  3. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 February 2025. Medieval punishment for high treason 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 ...

  4. Category:Execution methods - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Execution methods" The following 73 pages are in this category, out of 73 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  5. List of botched executions - Wikipedia

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    Gray's execution was the first in Mississippi after 1976. He repeatedly banged his head into an iron bar while being gassed. After Gray's execution, head restraints were added onto the iron bar inside of the gas chamber. [30] John Louis Evans (1983) – Electric chair. Evans's execution was the first in Alabama after 1976.

  6. Breaking wheel - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Executioner - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Mazzatello - Wikipedia

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    Megivern cites mazzatello as one example of an execution method devised by the Papal States that "competed with and in some instances surpassed those of other regimes for cruelty". [ 2 ] The condemned would be led to an execution scaffold site in a public square of Rome , accompanied by a priest (the confessor of the condemned [ 3 ] ); the ...

  9. Category:Medieval instruments of torture - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Medieval instruments of torture" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.