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Roman houses had one major support beam running through the centre of the roof. When a criminalw as charged with execution, this beam would be removed, making the house collapse. The criminal would then have to carry this beam of great weight to the site of execution. He would then be pinned on thsi single piece of wood (a stake). This was an effective way of torture. Asll the weight would be either on a persons hands, or his feet, meaning the nails would tear at flesh and causing great pain. His collapsed house would be look at with disgust by others and often be used as a publice levy to show such disgust
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∙ 12y agoThe Romans were very orderly people and even their executions were carried out according to one's class or one's crime. They liked to make the punishment fit the crime as far as possible. For example, if a prisoner were convicted of arson, he would be tied to a stake and burnt alive. If a person were convicted of treason, he could be thrown from the Tarpeian rock in some instances. Many times civil executions were carried out by strangulation which seemed to be the preferred method of execution. Slaves and foreigners could be crucified. A prisoner could also be offered the option of suicide by various means. The army had an entirely different set of executions. Beheading was the standard military form of execution. If a man endangered his fellow men, he could be beaten to death by the other men in his cohort whose lives he had put at risk.
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∙ 11y agoRoman soldiers were excuted in various ways, depending upon what they did to deserve execution. The general method of death was by beheading if he were found guilty of treason, desertion, murder, etc. However if he were found guilty of cowardice in battle or sleeping on guard duty, he could be sentenced to "fustuarium" which was being beaten to death by his fellow soldiers whose lives he had endangered. If a complete unit showed cowardice in battle, the punishment was "decimation" in which every tenth man was executed.
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