The worst executions in world history. The most terrible medieval torture for girls

Since ancient times, mankind has brutally dealt with its enemies, some even ate them, but mostly they were executed, deprived of their lives in a terrible way.
The same was done with criminals who violated the laws of God and man.
Over a thousand-year history, a lot of experience has been accumulated in the execution of the condemned.

Decapitation

The physical separation of the head from the body with the help of an ax or any military weapon (knife, sword) later, a machine invented in France, the Guillotine, was used for these purposes.
It is believed that during such an execution, the head, separated from the body, retains sight and hearing for another 10 seconds. Decapitation was considered a "noble execution" and was applied to aristocrats. In Germany, beheading was abolished in 1949 due to the failure of the last guillotine.

Hanging

Strangulation of a person on a rope loop, the end of which is fixed motionless, death occurs in a few minutes, but not at all from suffocation, but from squeezing the carotid arteries, while after a few seconds the person loses consciousness, and later dies.
In England, a type of hanging was used, when a person was thrown from a height with a noose around his neck, while death occurs instantly from a rupture of the cervical vertebrae.
In England, there was an “official table of falls” with the help of which they calculated the required length of the rope depending on the weight of the convict; if the rope is too long, the head is separated from the body.
A variation of hanging is garrote.
In this case, the person is seated on a chair, and the executioner suffocates the victim with a rope loop and a metal rod.
The last high-profile hanging - Saddam Hussein.

Quartering

Considered one of the most brutal executions, and applied to the most dangerous criminals.
When quartered, the victim was strangled, then the stomach was cut open and the genitals were cut off, and only then the body was cut into four or more parts and the head was cut off.
Thomas More, sentenced to quartering with burning of the inside, but on the morning before the execution he was pardoned, and the quartering was replaced by decapitation, to which More replied: "God save my friends from such mercy"

wheeling

The death penalty common in the Middle Ages. Professor A.F. Kistyakovsky in the 19th century described the wheeling process used in Russia as follows:
The St. Andrew's Cross, made of two logs, was tied to the scaffold in a horizontal position.
On each of the branches of this cross two notches were made, one foot apart from the other.
On this cross, the criminal was stretched so that his face was turned to the sky; each end of it lay on one of the branches of the cross, and in every place of each joint it was tied to the cross.
Then the executioner, armed with an iron quadrangular crowbar, struck at the part of the penis between the joint, which just lay above the notch.
In this way, the bones of each member were broken in two places.
The operation ended with two or three blows to the stomach and a breaking of the backbone.
The criminal, broken in this way, was placed on a horizontally placed wheel so that the heels converged with the back of the head, and they left him in this position to die.

Burning at the stake

The death penalty, in which the victim is burned at the stake in public.
Execution became widespread during the period of the Holy Inquisition, and only in Spain about 32 thousand people were burned.
On the one hand, the execution took place without the shedding of blood, and the fire also contributed to the purification and salvation of the soul, which was very suitable for the inquisitors to exorcise demons.
In fairness, it should be said that the Inquisition replenished the “budget” at the expense of witches and heretics, burning, as a rule, the most wealthy citizens.
Most famous people, burned at the stake by Giorgiano Bruno - as a heretic (engaged in scientific activities) and Joan of Arc, who commanded the French troops in the Hundred Years' War.

Impalement

The death penalty, in which the condemned was put on a pointed vertical stake.
Impaling was used in the Commonwealth until the 18th century, and many Zaporizhian Cossacks were executed in this way.
Also, this execution was used in Europe, in particular in Sweden in the 17th century.
Death occurs as a result of bleeding or peritonitis, the person died slowly and painfully over several days.
With regard to women, this execution was used in Romania, and a stake was inserted into the vagina, while death occurred quickly from profuse bleeding.

Hanging by the rib

A type of death penalty in which an iron hook was thrust into the side of the victim and hung up.
Death came from thirst and blood loss after a few days.
The hands of the victim were tied so that he could not free himself.
Execution was common among the Zaporizhian Cossacks.
According to legend, Dmitry Vishnevetsky, the founder of the Zaporizhzhya Sich, the legendary “Baida Veshnivetsky”, was executed in this way.

Throwing to Predators

A common type of ancient execution, common among many peoples of the world. Death came because you were eaten by crocodiles, lions, bears, sharks, piranhas, ants.

Buried alive

Burial alive was applied to many Christian martyrs. In medieval Italy, unrepentant murderers were buried alive.
In Russia of the 17th-18th centuries, women who killed their husbands were buried alive up to the neck.

crucifixion

Condemned to death, the hands and feet were nailed to the ends of the cross or the limbs were fixed with ropes. This is how Jesus Christ was executed.
The main cause of death during crucifixion is asphyxia caused by developing pulmonary edema and fatigue of the intercostal muscles and muscles involved in the breathing process. abdominals.
The main support of the body in this position is the hands, and when breathing, the abdominal muscles and intercostal muscles had to lift the weight of the whole body, which led to their rapid fatigue.
Also squeezing chest tense muscles of the shoulder girdle and chest caused stagnation of fluid in the lungs and pulmonary edema.
Additional causes of death were dehydration and blood loss.

Attitude towards crime and criminals in different eras and in different countries different, so that the severity of punishment varied. But if a person was sentenced to execution, then it was very cruel. The most cruel executions in the history of mankind evoke horror, since the condemned could die in terrible agony for weeks.

10 most brutal executions in the world

1. Chinese execution. Oddly enough, the executioners treated women with particular cruelty. One of the worst executions in history was practiced in China. The sentenced woman was stripped naked and, depriving her of support on her feet, they fixed saws between her legs.

Execution "Sawing"

The woman's hands were tied to the ring. Under the influence of gravity, the victim fell down onto the cutting edges of the saws, so that her body was slowly sawn from the womb to the sternum. The reasons for such a terrible punishment are incomprehensible to us, for example, the rice cooked by the cook turned out to be not as snow-white as the color of the owner's wisdom required.

2. Quartering. In Russia, and throughout Europe, in India, China, Egypt, Persia and Rome, this execution meant tearing or dismembering the human body into several parts. The parts themselves, after the completion of the execution, were put on public display. There are many options for dividing the criminal into parts - he was torn apart by horses, bulls, treetops. In some cases, an executioner was used to cut off limbs.

Moreover, it is impossible even to single out for what type of crimes such punishment was imposed. It was often used when it was necessary to make the execution spectacular. That is why they quartered deserters and members of their families, state criminals, rapists, Christians in ancient Rome, etc.

3. "Tin Soldier". The Alcatraz prison went down in history as one of the most terrible prisons in the world due to executions. The leadership of the correctional institution had an unhealthy imagination, otherwise it is simply impossible to explain the appearance of the "tin soldier".

The condemned prisoner received an injection of heroin, after which he was doused with heated paraffin. At the same time, the guards put the person in a pose that was funny from their sick point of view. When the paraffin solidified, the person simply could not move anymore - it turned out " tin soldier". After that, the guards chopped off the limbs of the prisoner. Death from shock and blood loss lasted for hours, which the executed experienced in terrible agony.

4. "Cradle of Judas". Another no less cruel version of the killing of prisoners in Alcatraz is the “cradle of Judas”. The person sentenced to death was put on a pyramid, fixing his hands and body. The tip of the pyramid was placed in the anus or in the vagina, so that the structure would gradually tear the body apart. To speed up the process, weights were attached to the legs of the condemned, increasing the pressure.

This slow and painful death from blood loss and sepsis took up to several days, with weighting agents the process was accelerated to several hours. Management famous prison borrowed this barbaric method from medieval inquisitors.

5. Keeling. For pirates, a separate set of executions was used, the most terrible of which was the keeling. The man was tied up and stretched on a rope under the keel of the ship.

Since this lasted a long time, the person managed to choke, not to mention the blows on the keel itself, covered with sharp mollusks - the skin was torn off the person. However, this type of punishment for disobedience to the captain, who wielded absolute power on the ship, was also practiced in the English fleet.

6. Desert island. Another world-famous pirate version of the execution - the rebels were not killed, but landed on desert island that will feed the criminals.

Many unfortunate rebels were left for years to drag out a miserable existence on patches of land without proper food and amenities.

7. Walking on the board. This version of the execution of pirates is described in adventure novels.

The crew of the captured ship was not needed by the robbers, so they went to sea. The plank was exposed over the side of the ship, so that a person, having passed on it, fell into the sea in the jaws of waiting sharks.

8. Execution for treason. In many cultures, the punishment for adultery for a woman is death. The methods of execution vary. In Turkey, the adulteress was sewn into a bag with a cat and beaten on the bag. The mad animal tore the woman apart, and the convict died from blood loss and beatings.

In Korea, the traitor was forced to drink vinegar, and then the swollen body of the adulteress was beaten with sticks until the representative of the weaker sex died.

9. Executions in ISIS. The types of punishments adopted by ISIS (an organization banned on the territory of the Russian Federation) also belong to the category of cruel ones, but they are far from the first place in the list of TOP 10 terrible executions.

Representatives of the group willingly distribute in the media photos and videos of executions by burning, beheading, which differs little from the medieval set of tortures and executions.

10. Executions for rape. Executions for rape are often much less severe than for adultery, especially for the fairer sex. Nevertheless, the death of a rapist was threatened not only in the Middle Ages, this is true even now in Iran, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, and Sudan.

However, Muslim tort law sometimes causes strange decisions. There are precedents when, after rape, a girl is executed by stoning, because the victim allegedly seduced the rapist. In other countries, for crimes of a sexual nature, the offender will be punished in the form of imprisonment for a term of 1 year to life imprisonment.

In Soviet times, rape by a recidivist, rape that entailed grave consequences, or rape of a minor victim was punishable by death. This law was in effect until 1997. By the way, a similar measure for the rape of a child in the US state of Louisiana was canceled only in 2008.

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Long history has shown that the most cruel creatures in the world are people. A vivid confirmation of this is the various methods of torture, with the help of which they found out truthful information from a person or forced him to make the necessary confession. It is hard to imagine what kind of torment the poor fellow had to endure, to whom the most terrible tortures were applied. Such methods of inquiry were especially popular during the Middle Ages, when the inquisitors tortured the victims, proving that they were in the service of the devil or engaged in witchcraft. But in subsequent times, various tortures were often used, especially during interrogations of military prisoners or spies.

The most terrible torture

Particularly sophisticated torture was invented by the servants of the holy department of investigations of sinfulness, called the Inquisition. People who survived this kind of interrogation often died or remained disabled for life.

Unbearable pain had to be experienced by a person who got into a witch's chair. This instrument of torture forced anyone to confess to all the sins attributed to him. There were sharp spikes on the seat of the device, its back and armrests, which, piercing into the body, made a person suffer greatly. The unfortunate was tied to a chair, and he involuntarily sat on the spikes. He had to endure unbearable torments that forced him to confess to all the charges incriminated to him.

No less terrible was the torture called the rack. It has been used in different ways:

• a person was placed on a special device, his limbs were stretched into opposite sides and fixed on the frame;
• the poor fellow was hung up, and by the hands, and heavy loads were tied to the legs;
• the person was placed horizontally, stretched, sometimes even with the help of horses.

If the martyr did not confess to his crimes, he was stretched to such an extent that the limbs practically came off, causing incredible suffering.

Quite often in the Middle Ages they resorted to torture by fire. To make a person suffer for a long time and confess his sins, he was placed on a metal grill and tied. The device was suspended, and a fire was made under it. After such torment, the poor fellow confessed to all the charges against him.

The worst torture for women

It is known that during the time of the Inquisition, many women were exterminated, who were suspected of witchcraft. They were not only executed with unimaginably terrible methods, but also tortured with various terrible tools. Quite often, chest breakers were used. The tool resembled pincers with sharp teeth that heated and tore the mammary glands apart with them.

A pear was a no less terrible instrument of torture. This device was inserted into the mouth or intimate openings in a closed form and opened with a screw. Sharp teeth on such a device severely injured the internal organs. Such torture was also used during interrogations of men suspected of being gay. After her, people died quite often. Severe bleeding or illness resulted in a fatal outcome, since the instrument was not disinfected.

The real torture can be considered an ancient African rite applied to girls who have reached the age of three. Children without any anesthesia scraped out the external intimate organs. Childbearing functions after such a procedure were preserved, but women did not experience sexual attraction, which made them faithful wives. This ritual has been carried out for many centuries.

The most brutal torture for men

The torture invented for men is not inferior in its cruelty. Even the ancient Scythians resorted to castration. To do this, they even had special devices called sickles. Such torture was often subjected to men who were captured. Often the procedure was performed by women who fought alongside men.

No less terrible was the torture in which the male genital organ was torn with red-hot tongs. The unfortunate man had no choice but to confess all his sins or to tell the truth required of him. Such torture was also entrusted to especially cruel women.

Unbearable pain was delivered by torture with a reed dotted with small thorns. It was inserted into the male genital organ and rotated until the tortured person gave out the necessary information. The thorns practically tore the inner flesh of the male organ, causing unbearable suffering. After such torture, it was very difficult for a person to urinate. Such torture was used by American and African Indians.

Nazi torture

The Nazis were especially cruel during interrogations during the Second World War. The Gestapo's favorite method was pulling out nails. The victim's fingers were clamped with a special device, and nails were torn off one by one until the person laid out the necessary information. Often, with the help of such torture, people were forced to confess to something they did not commit.

Very often, in specially equipped rooms in concentration camps, prisoners suspected of espionage were hung by the hands or tied to some object, after which they were brutally beaten with chains. Such blows caused multiple fractures and injuries, often incompatible with life.

Very often the Nazis used water torture. The victim was placed in a very cold room and fixed in a certain position. A container of ice water was placed over the poor man's head. Drops fell on the sufferer's head, which after a while even led to a loss of reason.

Modern terrible torture

Though modern society considered humane, torture has not lost its relevance. Experienced interrogators use the most brutal methods to extract the necessary information from the suspect. Electric torture is very common. Wires are brought to the human body and discharges are launched, increasing their power.

Water torture, often used in the Middle Ages, is still used today. A person's face is covered with some kind of cloth and liquid is poured into the mouth. If the poor fellow began to choke, the torment stopped for a while. Particularly stubborn suspects were then beaten on their stomachs, which were swollen from a large volume of water, which caused severe pain and caused damage to internal organs.

Mankind has always tried to punish criminals in such a way that other people would remember it and, under fear of a harsh death, they would not repeat such actions. To quickly deprive the convict, who could easily turn out to be innocent, life was not enough then, and therefore they came up with various painful executions. This post will introduce you to similar methods of execution.

Garrote - execution by strangulation or a broken Adam's apple. The executioner twisted the thread as tightly as he could. Some varieties of garrote were equipped with spikes or a bolt that broke the spinal cord. Such an execution was widespread in Spain, and in 1978 it was outlawed. Officially, the garrote was used in last time in 1990 in Andorra, however, according to some reports, it is still used in India.

Skafism is a cruel method of execution invented in Persia. The man was placed between two boats or hollowed-out tree trunks stacked on top of each other so that his head and limbs remained outside. He was fed only honey and milk, which caused severe diarrhea. They also smeared the body with honey in order to attract insects. After a while, the poor fellow was allowed into a pond with stagnant water, where there was already great amount insects, worms and other creatures. All of them slowly ate his flesh and left the larvae in the wounds. There is also a version that honey attracted only stinging insects. In any case, the person was doomed to long agony, lasting several days and even weeks.

The Assyrians used flaying for torture and execution. Like a captured animal, a man was skinned. Some or all of the skin could be torn off.

Ling chi was used in China from the 7th century until 1905. This method involved death by cuts. The victim was tied to poles and stripped of some parts of the flesh. The number of cuts could be very different. They could make several small cuts, cut off part of the skin somewhere, or even deprive the victim of limbs. The number of cuts was determined by the court. Opium was sometimes given to convicts. All this took place in a crowded place, and even after death, the bodies of the dead were left for a while in full view of everyone.

Wheeling has been used since Ancient Rome, and in the Middle Ages it began to be used in Europe. By the New Age, wheeling had become widespread in Denmark, Germany, France, Romania, Russia (legislatively approved under Peter I), the USA and other states. A person was tied to the wheel with already broken large bones or still intact, after which they broke them with a crowbar or clubs. A still-living person was left to die of dehydration or shock, whichever came first.

The copper bull is the favorite instrument of execution of Falarides, the tyrant of Agrigent, who ruled in the second half of the 6th century BC. e. The person sentenced to death was placed inside a life-sized hollow copper statue of a bull. A fire was lit under the bull. It was impossible to get out of the statue, and the observers could watch the smoke coming out of the nostrils and hear the screams of the dying.

Evisceration was used in Japan. The convict was removed part or all of the internal organs. The heart and lungs were cut out last to prolong the suffering of the victim. Sometimes evisceration served as a method of ritual suicide.

Boiling began to be used about 3000 years ago. Used it in Europe and Russia, as well as some Asian countries. A person sentenced to death was placed in a cauldron that could be filled not only with water, but also with fat, tar, oil, or molten lead. At the moment of immersion, the liquid could already boil, or it would boil later. The executioner could hasten the onset of death, or vice versa, prolong the torment of a person. It also happened that a boiling liquid was poured onto a person or poured into his throat.

Impaling was first used by the Assyrians, Greeks and Romans. They planted the stake in different ways and the thickness of the stake could also be different. The stake itself could be inserted either into the rectum or into the vagina if they were women, through the mouth or through a hole that was made in the genital area. Often the top of the stake was blunt to prevent the victim from dying immediately. The stake with the convict impaled on it was lifted up and those sentenced to a painful death slowly descended down it under the influence of gravity.

Hanging and quartering were used in medieval England to punish traitors and criminals who committed a particularly grave act. A person was hanged, but so that he remained alive, after which they were deprived of limbs. It could go as far as cutting off the unfortunate genitals, gouging out his eyes and cutting out his internal organs. If the person was still alive, then at the end they cut off his head. This execution continued until 1814.

From the Heretic's Fork to being eaten alive by insects, these gruesome old torture methods prove that humans have always been cruel.

Getting a confession is not always easy, and it always takes a lot of so-called creative ideas. The following horrific methods of torture and execution ancient world were intended to humiliate and dehumanize the victims in their last moments of life. Which of these methods do you think is the most brutal?

"Rack" (began to be used in ancient times)

The victim's ankles were tied to one end of this device and his wrists to the other. The mechanism of this device is as follows: during the interrogation process, the limbs of the victim are stretched in different directions. During this process, bones and ligaments make amazing sounds, and until the victim confesses, his joints are twisted or, worse, the victim is simply torn apart.

"Cradle of Judas" (origin: Ancient Rome)

This method was widely used in the Middle Ages to gain recognition. This "cradle of Judas" was feared throughout Europe. The victim was tied with straps to limit freedom of action, and lowered into a chair with a pyramid-shaped seat. With each rise and fall of the victim, the top of the pyramid ruptured the anus or vagina more and more, often causing septic shock or death.

"Copper bull" (origin: Ancient Greece)

This is what can be called hell on earth, this is the worst thing that can be. The "Copper Bull" is a torture device, it is not the most complex design, it looked exactly like a bull. The entrance to this construction was on the belly of the so-called animal, this is a kind of chamber. The victim was shoved inside, the door was closed, the statue was heated, and this all continued until the victim was roasted to death inside.

"Heretic's fork" (began to be used in medieval Spain)

Used to extract confessions during the Spanish Inquisition. The heretic's fork was even engraved with the inscription in Latin "I renounce." This is a reversible fork, a simple device that is fixed around the neck. 2 spikes were clamped to the chest, and the other 2 - to the throat. The victim was unable to speak or sleep, the frenzy usually leading to confession.

"Choke pear" (origin unknown, first mentioned in France)

This device was intended for women, homosexuals and liars. Formed in the shape of a ripe fruit, it had a rather intimate design, and in the literal sense of the word. After it was inserted into the vagina, anus or mouth, the device (which had four sharp metal sheets) was opened. The sheets expanded wider and wider, thereby tearing the victim apart.

Rat torture (origin unknown, possibly UK)

Although there are many variants of torture by rats, the most common was the one that consisted in fixing the victim so that she could not move. The rat was placed on the body of the victim and covered with a container. Then the container was heated, and the rat desperately began to look for a way out and tore the man apart. The rat dug and dug, slowly burrowed into the man until he died.

Crucifixion (origin unknown)

Although today it is a symbol of the greatest religion in the world (Christianity), crucifixion was once a brutal form of humiliating death. The condemned was nailed to the cross, often done in public, left hanging so that all the blood from his wounds would flow out and he would die. Death sometimes occurred only after a week. It is likely that the crucifix is ​​still used today (though rarely) in places like Burma and Saudi Arabia.

Skafism (most likely appeared in Ancient Persia)

Death came because the victim was eaten alive by insects. The sentenced was placed in a boat or simply tied with chains to a tree and force-fed with milk and honey. This went on until the victim had diarrhea. Then she was left to sit in her own excrement, and insects soon flocked to this stench. Death usually came from dehydration, septic shock, or gangrene.

Torture with a saw (began to be used in ancient times)

Everyone, from the Persians to the Chinese, practiced this form of death as sawing the victim. Often the victim was hung upside down (thereby increasing blood flow to the head), between which a large saw was placed. The executioners slowly sawed the human body in half, dragging out the process to make death as painful as possible.