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What was the method of execution in this time of the Roman Empire?
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∙ 7y ago
The execution of Roman citizens was actually banned following the Lex Porcia of 199 BC, and citizens were only allowed to be forced into exile. That said, execution of non-citizens--provincials and foreigners, was still rampant, and nonetheless some executions of citizens did occur.
There were several methods of execution but crucifixion was the most well-known. 6000 of the rebellious slaves who joined Spartacus were crucified along the Via Appia.
Crucifixion was considered brutally harsh and was reserved for "barbarians"--slaves and foreigners.
Execution of Citizens
The usual method was decapitation, sometimes preceded by a birching. Note the Roman fasces, the bundle of sticks, which includes an axe (sometimes). IT was rare for this sentence to be carried out after the early Republic, once the right of appeal was established. Of course, the concilium plebis could ratify the death sentence, but exile was the usual outcome.
For serious crimes--parricide, poisoning and a scant few others--the convict was flogged until bloody, sewn into a sack with a rooster, an ape, and a viper, and tossed into the Tiber. For political crimes, one might be thrown from the Tarpeian Rock--an outcropping overlooking the bank of the Tiber the bore sharp volcanic rocks. Many of those proscribed during the Roman Civil War (from the Gracchi through Augustus) went this way. Finally, political removals (enemies such as Vercingetorix and the Catalinarians) were sometimes conducted by strangling the convict and dropping his remains into a cavern located beneath the Carcer.
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∙ 11y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe Romans had several methods of execution, many times determined by class. A citizen was either beheaded, strangled or imprisoned and starved to death. The leaders captured in wars were either strangled or starved after they walked in the Roman general's triumph. Slaves or foreign troublemakers could be crucified. Criminals convicted of heinous crimes, such as arson or murder could be executed by burning alive, being thrown to the beasts, or being forced to fight in the arena, one opponent at a time until he was killed.
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∙ 14y agoIn ancient times many method of execution was followed by different societies. The Romans adopted the following method of execution:
1. Crucifixion:- condemned person was tied or nailed to a large wooden cross.
2.Bestiarii:- death by wild beast in arena,
3 Crushing :- this method was used be the Romans and Carthaginians. By this method condemned person was crushed by heavy materials or by elephant,
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∙ 10y agoRoman capital punishments were:
1) Dejectio e rupe Tarpeia, being thrown a cliff. This was the most common form in the early days of Rome. Rupe Trapeia was the Trapeian Rock, a cliff of the Capitoline hill were this practice started.
2) precipitatio de robore, being thrown from the robor, which was a part of a prison.
3) projectio in profluentem, being thrown into the river.
4) Stangulatio, being strangled.
5) Scourging, being flogged to death.
6) Being buried alive. This was the punishment for the priestesses of goddess Vesta (the Vestal Virgins) if they were found or suspected of having broken their vow of chastity. They were put in a prepared underground vault with a couch, a lamp, and a table with a food and water, ostensibly so that Vesta could save her if she was truly innocent. The vault was then filled with earth. This was done to execute them without shedding blood, because this was forbidden. They were executed in the Campus Scelletatus (the Wicked Field) outside the old city walls. Their lover was flogged to death.
7) Sercussio secure, beheading. Originally this was done with an axe. Later it was done with a sword because it was thought to be more honourable.
8) Servitus, enslavement (this also involved losing citizenship). Many of the enslaved people were forced to become gladiators
9) Fustuarium or bastinado, being beaten to death with cudgels. This was a punishment for soldiers
10) Ordering a person to commit suicide. The person in question agreed because this was considered to be more honourable than execution and because (unlike with execution) his property was not confiscated. Therefore his family could keep his property.
11) Condemnatio ad bestia. This is often given in English as condemnation to the arena. People were thrown into the arena during the gladiatorial games and were left to be eaten by wild beast. This was reserved for slaves, traitors and deserters.
12) In crucem actio, crucifixion. This was considered most shameful and disgraceful way to die. It was reserved for slaves, pirates, enemies of the state and war captives. Roman citizens were exempt, except for high treason. Later it was extended to citizens of the lower classes (humiliores) as a means to display their low status. Crucifixion was also practiced by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Macedonians. In Carthage it was well established and was also used for defeated generals. Crucifixion was banned by Constantine.
13) Being burned alive. This was introduced during the great persecution of Crisitans of the early 4th century AD.
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Beheadings were the most common, and were seen as fairly honorable. Other methods of execution included crucifixion (reserved for the worst crimes), death in the Arena, and poena cullei (the victim was bound in a sack with a dog, snake, cockerel, and a monkey, then thrown into a river).
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