List of methods of capital punishment
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This is a list of methods of capital punishment.
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Boiling to death | This penalty was carried out using a large cauldron filled with water, oil, tar, tallow, or even molten lead. | |
Breaking back | A Mongolian method of execution that avoided the spilling of blood on the ground | |
Breaking wheel | Also known as the Catherine wheel | |
Buried alive | ||
Burning | Supposed to have been popular for executing for religious heretics and witches, | |
Cooking | ||
Crucifixion | Roping or nailing to a wooden cross or similar apparatus (such as a tree) and allowing to perish. | |
Crushing | By a weight, abruptly or as a slow ordeal. | |
Decapitation | Also known as beheading. | |
Disembowelment | ||
Dismemberment | Being drawn and quartered sometimes resulted in dismemberment. | |
Drawing and quartering | ||
Electrocution | The electric chair | |
Falling | ||
Flaying | Cutting off the skin | |
Garrote | ||
Gassing | Asphyxiation by gas in a sealed chamber | |
Guillotine | ||
Hanging | ||
Immurement | Being left to die of starvation or dehydration. | |
Impalement | ||
Lethal injection | ||
Pendulum | A type of machine with an axe head for a weight that slices closer to the victim's torso over time | |
Poisoning | ||
Sawing | ||
Scaphism | ||
Shooting |
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Slow slicing | ||
Stabbing | ||
Starvation / Dehydration | Immurement | |
Stoning | ||
Strangulation |
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