Is crucifixion still used today

Answer 1

A:Crucifixion is used by some pious Christians as a devotional practice. In another rare instance, a Romanian priest ordered the crucifixion of a young nun because he believed she was possessed by the devil.

Crucifixion, as a form of state execution was abolished in the fourth century, because the Christian emperors did not want to grant criminals the dignity of dying the same way as Jesus did. They then had to use other equally cruel or even crueler methods of torture and execution, including skinning alive and the 'wheel'.