Executions in the ancient history seems to be barbaric and devices used was built with careful engineering to push the guilty to feel extreme pain before death. Here is a list of ten most brutal torture & execution techniques which was actually used in the ancient history.
10 ) Guillotine
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| Guillotine execution |
This form of execution seems to be ruthless but take a close look you will realize this form of execution was less barbaric than the others. Placed a Razor blade above the head of the guilt, this device was designed to grant death instantly by beheading them without pushing them to experience ultimate agony.
9) Iron Maiden
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| Protruding spikes in Iron maiden |
Imagine a tomb with full of spikes, that's what exactly this device is. The victim is thrown into the chamber and this chamber will cease his motion by poking him with pointy spikes from all directions. This interrogator will be asking questions from the outside while the victim assaulted by the spikes inside.
8) Breast Ripper
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| Fangs of Breast Ripper |
A device designed to punish women who indulge in adultery or prostitution in the ancient times. The device with two fangs will be heated to the state of red hot condition and victim will be stripped naked to rip the breast tissue from them. The metal fangs return with large chunk of flesh from the victims body.
7) Brazen Bull
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| Brazen Bull roasting victim to death |
A bull made of brass is used to roast the live victim inside. A door is provided to place the victim inside the chamber and the bull is started to heat up at the bottom. And then the victim will be roasted alive until his flesh melts from his body. This bull also designed to amplify the sounds of the screaming victim and make them sounds like a bellowing bull.
6) Chair of Torture
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| Chair of torture |
This Chair was built of hundreds of spike over it with straps to tie up the victim to it. This was very popular device used in the olden times to torture people and making them confess the sins they have committed. This chair also have space to place heating element to increase the amount of pain experienced by the victim.
5) Rat Torture
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| Rodent Burrowing through the victim |
Another brutal method to offer method but not from the hands of human but from rodents. They used to place big rodents trapped inside the cage and human body. Then a flame is set up and the natural instinct of rat force them to escape the heat by burrowing through the victim's body.
4) Rack
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| Tearing the limbs out using Rack |
This device pushes the victim to experience ultimate pain by dislocating the limbs in their body. The victims hand will be tied to the device in one end while the legs in the other end. Then the torturers went on to turn the lever which in turn dislocate the limbs of the victim. However the torturers continue to rotate the lever until the limb completely separates from the body.
3) Impalement
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| Impalement of a women |
This execution was done by using a long pole where the victim is made to sit on it and the pole is raised. This makes the victim's body to slide down by their own weight until it pierces the head. This execution can also take three days to kill the victim, what a way to kill person.
2) Crucifixion
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| Crucifixion of Jesus Christ |
This is one of the familiar method of execution practiced in olden times, yes it was the one used to execute Jesus Christ. In this the victim will be attached to cross by with their hands spread and nailed right in the bone joint to avoid tearing of the hands. The legs are also overlapped and nailed to the cross. The victim have will be given a great agony and it will offer a slow and painful death.
1) Saw Torture
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| Cutting the Victim body into half |
The picture tells the story how horrible it will be to be in the place of a victim. The victim will be tied upside down and two torturers proceed to cut the body into half right from the top. The rush of blood into the brain will keep them conscious until they saw the vital organs of the body. The torturers will continue to saw until they cut the body into two pieces.
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