List of methods of capital punishment  

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This is a list of methods of capital punishment.

Method Description
Animals
Boiling to deathThis 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 wheelAlso 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
Slow slicing
Stabbing
Starvation / Dehydration Immurement
Stoning
Strangulation





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