50 Worst Ways to Die

The executions happened as a live in front of the prisoners, then having to walk past the corpses of them hanging or

The main method that was used to execute was the guillotine. The guillotine was a device with a blade which killed people by “beheading” them. This device killed thousands, and amongst those were king Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette. This was “regarded as a humane way to execute criminals” (Document F).

Although it was considered the most harmless form of death, the guillotine was the most horrifying form of execution. The thought and vision of a human being beheaded is a disgusting desecration of a human being-especially one who was

Unification also comes with protection from uprising. As those who disagree with the ideology of the rulers rise in population, a potential for a revolt increases. The laws and government structure lent itself to those who agreed with the Papacy. As Islam had been a notorious religion for its uprisings both in Spain and in Middle East, the potential of an uprising was quite lofty. Like the murdering of the newborn Hebrew boys in Egypt during the biblical time of Moses, protection from insurgency was a requirement in retaining control of the territory. Instead of murdering children, however, the monarchs banished all religious dissidents, and violently penalized those who did not conform to the various whims of the church. Power is not as readily

countries' sole authority was at once the state and religion. Although during the Renaissance state rulers were religious, there had always remained two separate powers. By unifying the two, there was no longer a relatively secular authority. The state monopolized the power and made it a religious one.

Criminals had their own secret language called “Thieves’ cant” or also referred to as “peddlers French,” it was used by professionals criminals and beggars of all types in all places more commonly European. Criminals used this speech to communicate amongst themselves and often coordinate specific plans they shared amongst one another commonly used in things including coney-catching, gull-groping and gaming tricks. All things considered I actually thought it to be really cool for them to develop such a thing to communicate with one another about specific things. Speaking of criminals working together, professional criminals had their own underworld where they could organize certain crimes and work together. Still commonly used by criminals today, underworlds allowed criminals to plan and organize things amongst other professional criminals that were involved. Again I found this to be very cool and interesting, and i’ve so far learned a lot about the creativeness of criminals in the Elizabethan times, from own language to organizing more professional crimes amongst themselves. Now for something straying away from the whole behind the scenes of criminals, executions everyone's favorite thing’s from the Elizabethan era. To start executioners were usually lumbering brutes with their big heavy axes ready to chop someone’s head clean off, or did they? Executions usually took multiple swings tries between swings and the chance someone's head wouldn’t come off, yes they would have to endure more than one swing. Completely awful and often lead to the need to saw the head in order for it to come clean off of the person, as stated by Elgin, beheading with an axe often lead to misses and the need of sawing. Some nobles got “luckier” and had a swordsman with a sharp blade cut the head off in one clean swoop rather than an axe and need of sawing. In my opinion it sounds terrible to have to need to put

“Vlad the Impaler usually had a horse attached to each of the victim's legs and a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body. The end of the stake was usually oiled and care was taken that the stake not be too sharp, else the victim might die too rapidly from shock. Normally the stake was inserted into the body through the buttocks and was often forced through the body until it emerged from the mouth. However, there were many instances where victims were impaled through other bodily orifices or through the abdomen or chest. Infants were sometimes impaled on the stake forced through their mothers' chests. The records indicate that victims were sometimes impaled so that they hung upside down on the stake.” As stated by Rebecca Lugo

There have been many different types of forms used when it comes to punishing the accused offender. In the past the punishment methods used ranged anything from stoning to death, to setting someone alive on fire, hanging, or the beheading of someone, alongside with the attaching of the offender’s arms and legs to four separate horses, or oxen only to be pulled apart. In all these barbaric and inhuman acts by our standards today, were performed within the towns square so that the community and visitors would be able to witness these executions.

There are five ways to execute a person. The five are: lethal gas, lethal injection, electrocution, hanging, and firing squad. The most commonly used are lethal injection and electrocution. Lethal injection is when the people inject a shot into both of your arms. It takes about three minutes until the acid kills you. Firing squad is when a group of people has guns and the shoot at the murderers

the left hand, lying on the ground…" Strangulation is likely to have occurred in all cases as there were no screams heard. Also, the women were lying on their back when their throats were cut again, evidence from Source C proves this "…in the neck there was a long incision…" as there was relatively little blood. What blood there was mostly soaked up by their clothes. Some of the victims showed cleared sign of strangulation such as Elizabeth Stride pointed out in Source C"…the neck and chest were quite warm…" Once they were dead then the mutilation occurred of the abdomen stated in Source B of the Coroner's report"…where to the find the organs…" and this also proves that the person had skill and

The two humans Samuel and Catherine Jacobson were two simple farmers that they knew no one would miss. The men brought Samuel and Catherine into a nearby forest where they tied the two to large wooden stakes that they hammered into the ground. With that done the men dipped a crude paintbrush into a bowl filled with blood that they had collected from newborn children. One of the men used the paintbrush to draw a circle around the two stakes then he drew eight arrows that went from the middle of the circle to the outside of the shape. The man put the paintbrush back in the clay bowl, and they all turned their gaze to Samuel and Catherine who are both unconscious. Two men pick up two pots filled with water and throw it on Samuel and Catherine who immediately awaken and let out bloodcurdling screams. Two yellow colored strips of cloth are tied around their mouths to prevent them from screaming. They watch as one of the men pulls a silver dagger out of his belt and dips it in the bowl of blood. The man walks over to his captives and uses the dagger to make a cut in Samuel's left hand and Catherine's right

They went to the towns cane maker and he made the cane and engraved his name in the top. Then they decided why kill him when we can just make him ugly. They next went to a witch and the witch put a spell on the cane and it was then

Ashemelash, another prisoner, recalled how other prisoners are tied up and hung from trees to make them look like

If everything was done correctly, the execution would be finished in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately, that was not usually the case, and the deaths were slow and painful. The end results of a hanging consisted of the eyes popping out of their sockets, protruding tongue, bloated face, defecation, and severe jerking of the body and appendages (Descriptions”).

Some tortures included strapping the accused's feet in a pair of metal boots and then filling the boots with boiling hot oil. The accused were often whipped for their purification, sometimes they were left out in the open for hours after having been whipped while the torturers went out to lunch. They had to hang there and wait until they returned and often they received additional torture after their wait just to be certain they had been purified. Tortures were so extreme that many people took their practices underground to avoid the Inquisition.