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Top 10 gruesome methods of execution.

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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: lyssword
people are fucking disgusting, my mind fills with rage for about 5 mins and then sadness(i'm usually very calm and never get angry) when reading about sadism in general, which I usually avoid. It's hard for me to understand this inhumanity, or shall I say humanity.
Indeed....civilized beings we are. Yeah. Always on the lookout for more efficient methods of torturing and killing each other.
"Progress."

While the civility of the death penalty is hotly debated (and far beyond the scope of this thread/post), I think you can agree that, at least in most parts of the world, we've progressed somewhat from public torture-executions.
 
Originally posted by: Asianman
wow, whats the point of doing all that if you're going to kill them anyway? You are wasting extra resources utilising those methods when a simple firing squad will do, does anyone find any point in doing that?

When you see that guy tied up in a hollow tree trunk, sitting in his own excrement, smelling of gangrene... you could ask him what he did to suffer that fate. Then you would be careful not to duplicate his mistake.

Torturing someone to death was as much about inflicting pain to the offender as it was to letting people know what will happen to them if they do not tow the line.
 
Holy shit on the sawing. That is screwed up.

I can't believe Scaphism is real. In my screwed up head, I've thought about that as a way to really torture someone, but didn't know it was actually done before.
 
I still think some of those should be left on the table for those that defile children....I mean come on, some 30 year old man sodomizing a 2 year old?...how much physical pain and torture do you think that kid goes through?......yeah, he deserves to be sawed.

and make it pay per view so we can recoup some of the money we spent in the police investigation, the trial and the incarceration of the bastard.
 
I whole heartly agree with an eye for an eye. Can someone be rehabilited, probably but you know what, if you murder somebody you dont deserve to be alive imo. You took someones life, how is spending 20 yrs in prison as a leach to society make amends?
 
Originally posted by: Devine
I whole heartly agree with an eye for an eye. Can someone be rehabilited, probably but you know what, if you murder somebody you dont deserve to be alive imo. You took someones life, how is spending 20 yrs in prison as a leach to society make amends?
What if you murder two people?
What if you're indirectly responsible for someone's death?
 
Originally posted by: rivan
While the civility of the death penalty is hotly debated (and far beyond the scope of this thread/post), I think you can agree that, at least in most parts of the world, we've progressed somewhat from public torture-executions.
True. We've unfortunately moved to just finding more efficient ways of killing.
A step forward and a step backward.


 
Didn't the Chinese do something nasty with Bamboo shoots? Since they grow so fast....something about letting it grow up your asshole.
 
Wow, the sawing is pretty hard-core, as is the burning alive in molten lead.

If we reinstated some of these capital punishments I think we'd see violent crime go WAY down.
 
Rapid decompression as described in Tom Clancy's "Without Remorse" would rank pretty high on the list, IMO.
 
Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
Wow, the sawing is pretty hard-core, as is the burning alive in molten lead.

If we reinstated some of these capital punishments I think we'd see violent crime go WAY down.

No kidding. People would be deterred quite a bit by being boiled alive, flayed, etc...and scaphism is just horrible.
 
Originally posted by: Howard
Originally posted by: silverpig
There was one method an old teacher of mine told me about that seemed pretty bad.

Basically they'd put a two boards beside each of your legs (kind of like full leg splints), then pack them with sawdust and tie them as tight as they possibly could. They'd then put your legs together and tie ropes around both legs as tight as possible, squishing your legs. Then, wedges would be driven in between the boards that are sandwiched between your legs, compressing them further, to the point where all your bones in your legs would shatter and your blood vessels would burst. Your legs would be just smashed pieces of meat. Oh, and they'd whack your feet with a hammer until they were all smashed too. Then they'd undo all the ropes and let you flop around on stage in agony in front of all the townspeople, then string you up and let the birds go at you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_(torture)

Ah, so I didn't imagine it 🙂
 
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Didn't the Chinese do something nasty with Bamboo shoots? Since they grow so fast....something about letting it grow up your asshole.
It's ok, you can keep your fetishes to yourself. Really, it's ok.





😉

 
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Didn't the Chinese do something nasty with Bamboo shoots? Since they grow so fast....something about letting it grow up your asshole.

isn't that where they put them under your finger nails?
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Originally posted by: StinkyPinky
Didn't the Chinese do something nasty with Bamboo shoots? Since they grow so fast....something about letting it grow up your asshole.
It's ok, you can keep your fetishes to yourself. Really, it's ok.





😉

:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
faaaack....did not need to see this today

There is a point were the human nervious system will stop you from feeling pain. But the idea is still in your mind. Also even after the pain stops and the torture continues the mind will make you react like your feeling the pain so as to fool the pig doing the torture.

The worse torture would be to watch your family members killed.

 
Originally posted by: Nemesis 1
Originally posted by: Goosemaster
faaaack....did not need to see this today

There is a point were the human nervious system will stop you from feeling pain. But the idea is still in your mind. Also even after the pain stops and the torture continues the mind will make you react like your feeling the pain so as to fool the pig doing the torture.

The worse torture would be to watch your family members killed.

Raped and killed even worse.

 
Originally posted by: rudder
When you see that guy tied up in a hollow tree trunk, sitting in his own excrement, smelling of gangrene... you could ask him what he did to suffer that fate. Then you would be careful not to duplicate his mistake.

Let's hope he didn't reply: By asking the last person in this tree what his offense was...
 
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