Did the romans use a cross for jesus?

Answer 1

Torture stake because a true cross is not a method in which the person could stay on it, it would rip the arms off which did not happen to Christ. Christianity wants to make the method of torture into an Idol which god strictly forbids. The Cross is an Idol! "There shall be no graven images" Exodus 20:4

Answer 2

It is not quite clear, but it seems that the Romans used both the cross and the stake for the same type of execution. Ancient writers did not give detailed descriptions of methods execution and shape of implements. There may have been times when people were fixed to a stake or impaled after their deaths for public display. There are also arguments as to whether Jesus was put on a stake or a cross. There are uncertainties about the use of the Greek word stauros (the first translations of the gospels were in Greek). Some scholars think what it was a stake, a vertical beam without a crossbeam. Others argue that it was the patibulum, the crossbeam of the cross. There are also scholars who think that the stauros was composed of two beams put in an X shape.

There were two types of cross: the crux immissa (shaped as a +) and the crux commissa (shaped as a T)

Answer 3

Yeas they did. Jesus was crucified, a method of execution where the condemned is nailed to a gross and left to die. Crucify stems form crucis, the Latin for cross