Comments on: Top 10 Gruesome Methods of Execution http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/ Ultimate Top 10 Lists - Listverse Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:57:27 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: MPAA forces shutdown of towns free WiFi because of one illegal Download - Politics & Current Affairs Forum http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-224985 MPAA forces shutdown of towns free WiFi because of one illegal Download - Politics & Current Affairs Forum Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:25:20 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-224985 [...] are hardcore it won't work for them Sissy stuff. You gotta really put the fear of God in em. Top 10 Gruesome Methods of Execution - Listverse __________________ "I have been to the mountain top and I have seen the promised [...] [...] are hardcore it won't work for them Sissy stuff. You gotta really put the fear of God in em. Top 10 Gruesome Methods of Execution – Listverse __________________ "I have been to the mountain top and I have seen the promised [...]

]]> By: Update: 12 dead, 31 wounded in mass shooting at Fort Hood - Page 15 - Benzworld.org - Mercedes-Benz Discussion Forum http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-222653 Update: 12 dead, 31 wounded in mass shooting at Fort Hood - Page 15 - Benzworld.org - Mercedes-Benz Discussion Forum Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:23:05 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-222653 [...] Originally Posted by Bruce R. Siding with the MISUNDERSTOOD? In this case the insanity plea must be discounted, and the man terminated with extreme prejudice. Which method in "Cheney's Guide to Enhanced Interrogations" would you recommend? Top 10 Gruesome Methods of Execution - Listverse [...] [...] Originally Posted by Bruce R. Siding with the MISUNDERSTOOD? In this case the insanity plea must be discounted, and the man terminated with extreme prejudice. Which method in "Cheney's Guide to Enhanced Interrogations" would you recommend? Top 10 Gruesome Methods of Execution – Listverse [...]

]]> By: sara http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-219964 sara Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:53:55 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-219964 what is that cage about that you see on the heads of people who work in sanitoriums? Is it a torture, or protective devise? always wondered..... what is that cage about that you see on the heads of people who work in sanitoriums? Is it a torture, or protective devise?

always wondered…..

]]> By: guest2 http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-219393 guest2 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:36:44 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-219393 How about Stalin forcing farmers off their land then collectivizing them central planning and then massive starvation. Sent them to Siberia to work camps to starve, and killed over 20 million. Greatest mass murderer ever- and a psychotic. Or take Mao-- even more than that. The point of this list, I think, must be to discuss the inhumane nature of what comprised "criminal" punishment/execution.... NOT morality or mass murder. The atomic bomb proveably saved MILLIONS of lives from the fanatic regime of Tojo and Hirohito.A good extension of this discussion would be to discuss what would motivate those to kill in the fashions listed here-- and this leads to the standards of the time-- anti-catholic, feudalism,statism... whatever. Ease up on the "oh the horrors" if you're going to use chump change comparisons in the numbers of dead. Vlad Tepes, by the way, is a national hero of Romania.... and he stopped the Muslim horde cold. We'd be well advised to put it to the Islamofascists the same way... pig carcasses to bury them in...if we bury them at all. How about Stalin forcing farmers off their land then collectivizing them central planning and then massive starvation. Sent them to Siberia to work camps to starve, and killed over 20 million. Greatest mass murderer ever- and a psychotic. Or take Mao– even more than that. The point of this list, I think, must be to discuss the inhumane nature of what comprised “criminal” punishment/execution…. NOT morality or mass murder. The atomic bomb proveably saved MILLIONS of lives from the fanatic regime of Tojo and Hirohito.A good extension of this discussion would be to discuss what would motivate those to kill in the fashions listed here– and this leads to the standards of the time– anti-catholic, feudalism,statism… whatever. Ease up on the “oh the horrors” if you’re going to use chump change comparisons in the numbers of dead. Vlad Tepes, by the way, is a national hero of Romania…. and he stopped the Muslim horde cold. We’d be well advised to put it to the Islamofascists the same way… pig carcasses to bury them in…if we bury them at all.

]]> By: John warren Gotsch http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-218985 John warren Gotsch Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:02:20 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-218985 Where is the Serbian method of inserting a man on a pole ---anus first till the body is ever so slowly inserted on it with death taking days. Ivo Andric, Nobel lauriate for Literature in 1961 wrote about this in his book The Bridge on the Drina. Where is the Serbian method of inserting a man on a pole —anus first till the body is ever so slowly inserted on it with death taking days. Ivo Andric, Nobel lauriate for Literature in 1961 wrote about this in his book The Bridge on the Drina.

]]> By: RickR http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-218911 RickR Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:43:16 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-218911 Actually, the "breaking wheel" method isn't quite as described above, at least in the classic Medieval method. The victim would be staked out on the ground with the arms and legs widely splayed, and wedges of wood would be placed under the joints and body. The executioner would actually take a large heavy wheel and smash the long bones of the arms and legs with it, crushing and rolling over them, the wedges acting as fulcrums to ensure breakage and excruciating pain. If the victim was to be shown mercy, he might have the wheel dropped on his neck early on. Usually a blow was directed to the abdomen to break the back as well. The victim, alive OR dead, then had their pulped limbs weaved through the spokes of the wheel and tied to the rim, and the victim and wheel would be hoisted on a post and left upright as an object lesson and to let the victim either continue to expire or be bird food. This information comes from the Medieval Crime Museum in Rothenburg, Germany, which also published a definitive treatise on all the instruments of Medieval justice. It's a great museum, actually, and has dozens of period documents and illustrations showing the method described. It was usually a very bloody and gruesome affair as well. Actually, the “breaking wheel” method isn’t quite as described above, at least in the classic Medieval method.
The victim would be staked out on the ground with the arms and legs widely splayed, and wedges of wood would be placed under the joints and body. The executioner would actually take a large heavy wheel and smash the long bones of the arms and legs with it, crushing and rolling over them, the wedges acting as fulcrums to ensure breakage and excruciating pain. If the victim was to be shown mercy, he might have the wheel dropped on his neck early on. Usually a blow was directed to the abdomen to break the back as well. The victim, alive OR dead, then had their pulped limbs weaved through the spokes of the wheel and tied to the rim, and the victim and wheel would be hoisted on a post and left upright as an object lesson and to let the victim either continue to expire or be bird food.
This information comes from the Medieval Crime Museum in Rothenburg, Germany, which also published a definitive treatise on all the instruments of Medieval justice. It’s a great museum, actually, and has dozens of period documents and illustrations showing the method described. It was usually a very bloody and gruesome affair as well.

]]> By: bdizzle http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-215854 bdizzle Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:26:50 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-215854 not sure if someone else already mentioned this or not but what about where they hoist the prisoner (usually male) over a saddle looking thing with like a 2 foot spike coming out the middle, then the person is dropped onto the saddle??? ouch... not sure if someone else already mentioned this or not but what about where they hoist the prisoner (usually male) over a saddle looking thing with like a 2 foot spike coming out the middle, then the person is dropped onto the saddle??? ouch…

]]> By: CHOMP http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-213032 CHOMP Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:01:19 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-213032 i reacon one of the triads execution technique should be on this...1000 cuts of death altough they dont make it to 1000 slow and extremely painful death.. i reacon one of the triads execution technique should be on this…1000 cuts of death altough they dont make it to 1000

slow and extremely painful death..

]]> By: Kamikaze http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-212303 Kamikaze Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:42:25 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-212303 i agree with Zom Zom....if i gotta die..just bust a cap in me......... i agree with Zom Zom….if i gotta die..just bust a cap in me………

]]> By: Tongueless Ghost Of Sin http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-211988 Tongueless Ghost Of Sin Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:30:28 +0000 http://listverse.com/history/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/#comment-211988 Man's lust for blood is just as real as his lust for flesh, and sad as it seems, you just have to think of modern day rubberneckers at fatal car accidents, - it's written in human evolution to be interested in unusual deaths. That said, most of the despicable modes of execution here were devised by those in positions of untouchable power, not only distancing them from the people they subjected this to, but also from reality. If you were continually surrounded by people who treated you as a God, then eventually you would not perceive these condemned as being from the same species as yourself, which would make it a lot easier to subdue what little compassion these rulers possessed. Let's face it, not every monarch/emperor was a psychopathic degenerate, their compassion for fellow man had merely been conditioned out of them from years of decadent privilege and sycophancy. When they wanted entertainment, they couldn't travel to the next big city in a few hours, or watch infinite tailored entertainment channels. They already had a list of unfavourable men and women, usually 'charged' with treason with or without evidence, so why not make a sport out of their impending execution? They need to be executed anyway, so why not give the spectators something new and unusual to witness, while also 'sending a message' to any other would-be 'criminals'. Got to say Bull of Phalaris is the worst i can imagine, the sawing is unimaginably depraved, crucifixion should probably make the list, and the homosexual punishment of a white hot poker inserted into the anus, boiling the insides always made me shudder. I thought it was done to the Marquis De Sade but think i just imagined that... Man’s lust for blood is just as real as his lust for flesh, and sad as it seems, you just have to think of modern day rubberneckers at fatal car accidents, – it’s written in human evolution to be interested in unusual deaths.

That said, most of the despicable modes of execution here were devised by those in positions of untouchable power, not only distancing them from the people they subjected this to, but also from reality. If you were continually surrounded by people who treated you as a God, then eventually you would not perceive these condemned as being from the same species as yourself, which would make it a lot easier to subdue what little compassion these rulers possessed. Let’s face it, not every monarch/emperor was a psychopathic degenerate, their compassion for fellow man had merely been conditioned out of them from years of decadent privilege and sycophancy. When they wanted entertainment, they couldn’t travel to the next big city in a few hours, or watch infinite tailored entertainment channels. They already had a list of unfavourable men and women, usually ‘charged’ with treason with or without evidence, so why not make a sport out of their impending execution? They need to be executed anyway, so why not give the spectators something new and unusual to witness, while also ’sending a message’ to any other would-be ‘criminals’.

Got to say Bull of Phalaris is the worst i can imagine, the sawing is unimaginably depraved, crucifixion should probably make the list, and the homosexual punishment of a white hot poker inserted into the anus, boiling the insides always made me shudder. I thought it was done to the Marquis De Sade but think i just imagined that…

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