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  2. Impalement - Wikipedia

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    Impalement. Impalement, as a method of torture and execution, is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by the complete or partial perforation of the torso. It was particularly used in response to "crimes against the state" and regarded across a number of cultures as a very harsh form of capital ...

  3. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    A slower method of applying single pieces of burning wood was used by Native Americans to torture their captives to death. [8] Molten metal. Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pavlo Pavliuk were supposedly killed this way. The execution method is associated with counterfeits (by pouring down the neck) or traitors (by pouring on the head). [9] Brazen ...

  4. Hanging - Wikipedia

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    Detail from a painting by Pisanello, 1436–1438. Hanging is killing a person by suspending them from the neck with a noose or ligature. Hanging has been a common method of capital punishment since the Middle Ages, and is the primary execution method in numerous countries and regions. The first known account of execution by hanging is in Homer ...

  5. Impalement in myth and art - Wikipedia

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    Impalement in myth and art. The use of impalement in myth, art, and literature includes mythical representations of it as a method of execution and other uses in paintings, sculptures, and the like, folklore and other tales in which impalement is related to magical or supernatural properties, and the use of simulated impalement for the purposes ...

  6. List of art techniques - Wikipedia

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    A. Aerial perspective by Frans Koppelaar, Landscape near Bologna, 2001; distant objects are lighter, of lower contrast, and bluer than nearer objects. Airbrushing technique. Aerial perspective technique. Acrylic painting techniques. Aging (artwork) technique. Aquatint. Assemblage (art) technique. Animation (digital art)

  7. List of botched executions - Wikipedia

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    The rope was too long and over-measured, causing him to be decapitated. [13] Moses Shrimpton (1885) – Hanging. His neck muscles were weak and he was decapitated. [14] Roxana Druse (1887) – Hanging. The last woman hanged in the state of New York, and the first woman hanged in 40 years in Central New York.

  8. 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 became a statutory penalty for men convicted of high treason in the Kingdom of England from 1352 under King Edward III (1327–1377), although similar rituals are recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272).

  9. State of the art - Wikipedia

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    In the context of European and Australian patent law, the term "state of the art" is a concept used in the process of assessing and asserting novelty and inventive step, [9] and is a synonym of the expression "prior art". [10] In the European Patent Convention (EPC), " [t]he state of the art shall be held to comprise everything made available ...