Top 10 Gruesome Methods of Execution

[Legzman]

Interesting article!

http://listverse.com/2007/09/12/top-10-gruesome-methods-of-execution/

 

[Violator79]

Personal favorite: Brazen Bull

 

[grower_boy]

That was a great read, man. I repped you for it.

Maybe it's just as a result of providing pictures, but Ling Chi seems like it should be higher than #7.

 

[CSkylar86]

Holy ****! Interesting is an understatement. But a great historical article!

 

[monicasilver]

Creativity best applied elsewhere

 

[bahodeme]

I liked Scaphism. It gave the person time to reflect.

 

[Legzman]

I liked Scaphism. It gave the person time to reflect.

no ****! 17 days...fuck that!

 

[grower_boy]

no ****!

Actually....a lot of ****!

 

[LukeEl]

Put them in the Iron Maiden...excellent!

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

Lynching would combine several of those. Cutting off all the fingers one by one, cutting the scrotum off, cutting the ears off, then burning them alive. I did a term paper on lynching and some of the research I did was pretty insane stuff.

 

[georges]

you forget **** by a barrett light 50 caliber or chey tac cal 408 sniping rifle at very long range

 

[Ulysses31]

I'm surprised Garotting wasn't in there

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrote


Or Disembowelment (evisceration)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disembowelment

 

[Juliuscaesar]

I think getting fucked to death by a ***** should be on there, even though no nation uses it, it's perhaps the worst way to go..Just ask Mr. Hands.

 

[Elwood70]

Now we know why Capital Punishment doesn't work anymore as a deterrent:It's too goddamn humane.

 

[Alyssa Rose]

Scaphism! Holy **** that sounds terrible! Honestly I'd like try to hold my my breath or break my own neck to **** myself or something! :shudders:

 

[Rane1071]

We're an innovative bunch aren't we I alway's thought hanging was bad enough. Or impalement. *shiver*.

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

How 'bout locking someone in a room and consistently waking them up, as they are ****** to listen to Brittney Spears and Christina Aguilara records on inhumanely loud volumes? :eek:

 

[BAYAMONXXX]

Now we know why Capital Punishment doesn't work anymore as a deterrent:It's too goddamn humane.

Gas chamber! :eek:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Gas4.jpg

 

[tiger1977]

Human ingenuity at its finest.

 

[John_8581]

The Guillotine.

France's method of execution from the French Revolution (for King Louis XVI, Marie Antionette, later Maximillon Robespierre) to before right before World War II.