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List of methods of capital punishment

 
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Quartering

This is a list of methods of capital punishment.

Method Description
Animals
  • Tearing apart by horses (e.g., in medieval Europe, with four horses; or "quartering", with four horses, as in The Song of Roland and Child Owlet)
  • Devouring by:
    • animals such as dogs or wolves, as in Ancient Rome and the Biblical lion's den
    • rodents, such as rats
    • alligators or crocodiles
    • insects, such as ants
  • Stings from scorpions and bites by snakes, spiders, etc.
  • Crushing by elephant [1]
  • Snake pit
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 Mongol method of execution which avoided the spilling of blood on the ground.[1]
Breaking wheel also known as the Catherine wheel
Buried alive Humans may be buried alive intentionally (as a form of torture, murder, or execution).
Burning especially for religious heretics and witches on the stake
Crucifixion by 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
Death flights throwing someone off a plane or helicopter
Decapitation also known as beheading (as by sword, axe, or guillotine)
Disembowelment
Dismemberment Being drawn and quartered sometimes resulted in dismemberment.
Drawing and quartering
Drowning
Electrocution the electric chair
Explosives
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
Marooning
Nitrogen asphyxiation theoretically humane method
Poisoning
Sawing
Scaphism
Shooting
Slow slicing
Stabbing
Starvation / Dehydration immurement
Stoning
Strangulation

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