The various ways in which humans have and are executed. When we think of executions we think of gas chamber, firing squad, electric chair and hanging but it is astounding just how many more versions there are for ending a human's life. Some are primitive and cruel, some are inhumane, but all have the same ending of a person's existence. Also the last meals of infamous people before they are executed. Also how the world's religions have taken part in the history of execution.
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Executions Animals as Executioners Asphyxiation by Nitrogen Bestiarii Blood Eagle Blowing From a Gun Boiling Brazen Bull Breaking Wheel Burning Cement Shoes Columbian Necktie Crucifixions Crushing Damnatio ad Bestias Death by Boiling Decapitation / Beheading Death Flights Defenestration / Jumping Disembowelment Dismemberment Drowning / Dunking Drugs Electric Chair Execution Vans Falling Firing Squad Five Pains Flaying Forced Suicides Fustuarium Garrote Gas Chamber Gas Vans Genickschussanlage Gibbet Guillotine Hanging Hanged, Drawn & Quartered Immurement / Walled-In Impalement Ishikozume Keelhauling Lethal Injection Lynching Marooning Mazzatello Necklacing Nine Familial Exterminations Premature Burial Republican Marriage Sawing Scaphism / The Boats Slow Slicing Snake Pit Starvation Stoning Strangulation Tunica Molesta Upright Jerker Walking the Plank
Related Information Death Row Last Meals (America) Last Meals by Infamous Death Row Inmates Hand of Glory Death Erection Table of Drops Rape and Punishments
Capital Punishment and Religions Christianity Roman Catholic Church Orthodoxy Anglican and Episcopalian Other Protestants Mormonism Islam Buddhism Hinduism Judaism Executions of Innocent People Miscarriages of Justice