أفضل 10 طرق لتنفيذ الشنيع Top 10 Gruesome Methods of Execution

Since we started writing down the history
of our race, man has frequently come up with revolting methods of
killing for punishment. This is a list of the most revolting methods of
execution from history. Thankfully most of them are no longer used.
10. Brazen Bull

The Brazen Bull was invented by Perilaus of Athens (a Brass worker)
in the 6th Century BC and offered to Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, as a
gift. It was a large brass bull that was completely hollow inside with
a door on the side large enough for a man to enter. Once the man was
inside the bull, a fire would be lit beneath it in order to roast him to
death. In the head of the bull, Perilaus put a series of tubes and
stops that were designed to amplify the screams of the victim and make
them sound like the roar of a bull.
Interestingly, Perilaus was the first
person to feel the pain of the Brazen Bull. After Perilaus said to
Phalaris: “[his screams] will come to you through the pipes as the
tenderest, most pathetic, most melodious of bellowings”, Phalaris was so
disgusted that he tricked Perilaus in to entering the bull. Lucian
recounts the tale:

‘His words revolted me. I loathed the thought of such
ingenious cruelty, and resolved to punish the artificer in kind. “If
this is anything more than an empty boast, Perilaus,” I said to him, “if
your art can really produce this effect, get inside yourself, and
pretend to roar; and we will see whether the pipes will make such music
as you describe.” He consented; and when he was inside I closed the
aperture, and ordered a fire to be kindled. “Receive,” I cried, “the due
reward of your wondrous art: let the music-master be the first to
play.” Phalaris I:12

Perilaus was removed from the Bull before he died and Phalaris had
him thrown off a cliff. The Brazen Bull became one of the most common
methods of execution in Ancient Greece.
9. Hanging Drawing and Quartering

Hanging drawing and quartering was the common form of punishment in
England for the crime of treason which was considered the worst crime
you could commit. The punishment was only applied to men – women found
guilty of treason were burnt at the stake. Unbelievably, this
punishment remained in law until 1814.
The first stage of the execution was to be tied to a wooden frame and
dragged behind a horse to the place of your death. Following that, the
criminal would be hanged until they were nearly dead. The criminal
would then be removed from the noose and laid on a table. The
executioner would then disembowel and emasculate the victim, and burn
the entrails in front of his eyes. He would still be alive at this
point. The person would then be beheaded and their body cut in to
quarters. Samuel Pepys, in his famous diary, was an eyewitness at one
of these executions:

To my Lord’s in the morning, where I met with Captain
Cuttance, but my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see
Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done
there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He
was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at
which there was great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he
was sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that
now had judged him; and that his wife do expect his coming again. Thus
it was my chance to see the King beheaded at White Hall, and to see the
first blood shed in revenge for the blood of the King at Charing Cross.

The normal practice was to send the five parts of the body to various
areas where they would be put on display on a gibbet as a warning to
others.
8. Burning

Burning at the Stake was normally done in one of two ways. In the
first, the victim would be lead to the center of a wall of sticks and
straw and tied to the stake, after which the space between the criminal
and the wall would be filled with wood – concealing the person. It is
believed that this is the manner in which St Joan of Arc was burnt. The
other method was to pile sticks and straw up to the level of the calves
only.
When performed by a skilled executioner, the person would burn in
this sequence: calves, thighs and hands, torso and forearms, breasts,
upper chest, face; and then finally death. Needless to say this would
have been excruciating. If a large number of people were to be burnt at
the same time, death could occur through carbon monoxide poisoning
before the fire reached you. If the fire was small, you could die of
shock, blood loss, or heatstroke.
In later versions of burning at the stake, the criminal would be
hanged until dead and then burnt symbolically. This method of execution
was used to burn witches in most parts of Europe, but it was not used
in England for that purpose.
7. Ling Chi

Ling Chi – execution by slow cutting – was practiced in China until
it was outlawed in 1905. In the execution, the criminal is slowly cut
in the arms, legs, and chest, until finally they are beheaded or stabbed
in the heart. Many western accounts of the execution method are
largely exaggerated, with some claiming that the execution could take
days to perform.
One modern eyewitness report from Journalist and Politician Henry
Norman, describes an execution thus:

The criminal is fastened to a rough cross, and the
executioner, armed with a sharp knife, begins by grasping handfuls from
the fleshy parts of the body, such as the thighs and the breasts, and
slicing them off. After this he removes the joints and the excrescences
of the body one by one-the nose and ears, fingers and toes. Then the
limbs are cut off piecemeal at the wrists and the ankles, the elbows and
knees, the shoulders and hips. Finally, the victim is stabbed to the
heart and his head cut off.

You can see a particularly revolting image of a criminal who has been
executed by this method here and another here.
6. Breaking Wheel

The breaking wheel was also known as the Catherine Wheel and it was a
mediaeval execution device. The criminal would be attached to a cart
wheel and his arms and legs stretched out along the spokes. The wheel
would be made to turn while a heavy metal bar or hammer would deliver
bone breaking blows to various parts of the body between the spokes. If
a merciful execution had been ordered, after a large number of bones
were shattered, fatal blows would be delivered. In cases where mercy
was not offered, the criminal would remain on the wheel until they died –
this could sometimes take days and the person would die of shock and
dehydration.
After the shattering was complete, the limbs of the person would be
woven between the spokes and the wheel would be hoisted to the top of a
pole for birds to eat the, sometimes still living, body.
In France, a special grace was sometimes offered in which the
criminal would be strangled to death before the blows were delivered, or
after only two or three.




5. Boiling

In execution by boiling, the condemned is stripped naked and either
placed in a vat of boiling liquid, or in a vat of cold liquid which was
then heated to boiling. The liquid could be oil, acid, tar, water, or
molten lead. During the reign of King Henry VIII it was a punishment
especially reserved for poisoners.

“The preamble of the statute of Henry VIII (which made
poisoning treason) in 1531 recites that one Richard Roose (or Coke), a
cook, by putting poison in some food intended for the household of the
bishop of Rochester and for the poor of the parish of Lambeth, killed a
man and woman. He was found guilty of treason and sentenced to be boiled
to death without benefit of clergy. He was publicly boiled at
Smithfield. In the same year a maid-servant for poisoning her mistress
was boiled at King’s Lynn.” [Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911]

The “Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London” (published by the Camden
Society) has an account of a case at Smithfield, in which a man was
fastened to a chain and let down into boiling water several times until
he was dead. In modern days, Idi Amin has been accused of using this
method of execution on his enemies.
4. Flaying

Execution by Flaying is when the skin of the criminal is removed from
their body with the use of a very sharp knife. Attempts are made to
keep the skin intact. This is a very ancient method of execution. The
apostle Bartholomew was flayed and crucified upside down. His skin and
bones are kept in a Cathedral in Sicily.
There are accounts of Assyrians flaying the skin from a captured
enemy or rebellious ruler and nailing it to the wall of his city, as
warning to all who would defy their power. The Aztecs of Mexico flayed
victims of ritual human sacrifice, generally after death.
While this method of execution is not lawful in any country, in 2000,
government troops in Myanma (Burma) allegedly flayed all of the males
of a Karenni village.
3. Necklacing

Necklacing is a type of execution in which a rubber tyre is filled
with gasoline, forced over the arms and chest of the victim, and set
alight. It was a common practice in South Africa during the 1980s and
1990s anti-apartheid struggle.
Necklacing sentences were sometimes handed down against alleged
criminals by “people’s courts” established in black townships as a means
of circumventing the apartheid judicial system. Necklacing was also
used to punish members of the black community who were perceived as
collaborators with the apartheid regime. These included black policemen,
town councilors and others, as well as their relatives and associates.
The practice was frequently carried out in the name of the African
National Congress (ANC), and was even endorsed by Winnie Mandela,
then-wife of the imprisoned Nelson Mandela and a senior member of the
ANC, although the ANC officially condemned the practice. [Wikipedia]
Necklacing has also occured in Brazil, and Haiti, and at least one
person was killed by this method in Nigeria during muslim protests over
the Muhammad Cartoons.
2. Scaphism

Scaphism is an Ancient Persian method of execution. According to
Wikipedia, a naked person would be firmly fastened within a back-to-back
pair of narrow rowboats (or in some variations a hollowed out tree
trunk), the head, hands, and feet protruding from this improvised
container. The condemned was forced to ingest milk and honey to the
point of developing severe diarrhea, and more honey would be rubbed on
his body so as to attract insects to the exposed appendages. They would
then be left to float on a stagnant pond (or alternately, simply exposed
to the sun somewhere). The defenseless individual’s feces accumulated
within the container, attracting more insects, which would eat and breed
within his or her exposed (and increasingly gangrenous) flesh. Death,
when it eventually occurred, was probably due to a combination of
dehydration, starvation and septic shock.
Plutarch writes that it took Mithridates 17 days to die by this
method of execution. Native American Indians also used a similar method
of execution where they would tie the victim to a tree, smear him and
leave him to the ants. Because he was not previously force-fed, he
would generally starve in a few days.
1. Sawing

In Execution by sawing, the criminal would be hung upside-down and a
large saw would be used to cut their body in half, starting with the
groin, all the way to the head. Because the person was hanging
upside-down, the brain received sufficient blood to keep them alive
until the saw finally reached the main blood vessels in the abdomen. In
the Asian version of this execution, the victim would stand upright and
the sawing would begin at the top of the head.
Some traditions state that the Prophet Isaiah was executed by the
saw. It is believed that Saint Paul is making reference to this in his
Epistle to the Hebrews 11:37:

They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were
tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in
sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted.

This method of execution was used in the Middle East, Europe, and
parts of Asia. It was also used in the Roman Empire and was considered
to be the favorite punishment dished out by Emperor Caligula.