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  2. Breaking wheel - Wikipedia

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    Execution wheel (German: Richtrad) with underlays, 18th century; on display at the Märkisches Museum, Berlin The breaking wheel, also known as the execution wheel, the Wheel of Catherine or the (Saint) Catherine('s) Wheel, was a torture method used for public execution primarily in Europe from antiquity through the Middle Ages up to the 19th century by breaking the bones of a criminal or ...

  3. Hanged, drawn and quartered - Wikipedia

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    The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse. To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland.

  4. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    At the stake. Infamous as a method of execution for heretics and witches. A slower method of applying single pieces of burning wood was used by Native Americans to torture their captives to death. [5] Molten metal. Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pavlo Pavliuk were supposedly killed this way. The execution method is associated with counterfeits (by ...

  5. Death by sawing - Wikipedia

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    One of the most notorious cases of sawing as execution is that of the Alcaide (castellan/governor) Melec under Sultan Moulay Ishmael (r. 1672–1727). The fullest description of this execution is found in Dominique Busnot's [ 25 ] 1714 work Histoire du règne de Mouley Ismael , although a brief notice of the event can be found in the January ...

  6. Brazen bull - Wikipedia

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    The brazen bull, also known as the bronze bull, Sicilian bull, Bellowing bull or bull of Phalaris, was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece. [1] According to Diodorus Siculus, recounting the story in Bibliotheca historica, Perilaus (Περίλαος) (or Perillus (Πέριλλος)) of Athens invented and proposed it to Phalaris, the tyrant of Akragas, Sicily, as a new ...

  7. List of methods of torture - Wikipedia

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    In the late Middle Ages, some new variants of this instrument appeared. They often had spikes that penetrated the victim's back - as the limbs were pulled apart, so was his or her spinal cord increasing not only in physical pain but the psychological one of being handicapped at best, too.

  8. Blood eagle - Wikipedia

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    The blood eagle was a method of ritual execution as detailed in late skaldic poetry. According to the two instances mentioned in the Christian sagas , the victims (in both cases members of royal families) were placed in a prone position , their ribs severed from the spine with a sharp tool, and their lungs pulled through the opening to create a ...

  9. Category:Medieval instruments of torture - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Medieval instruments of torture" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.