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  2. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Crucifixion. Roping or nailing to a wooden cross or similar apparatus (such as a tree) and leaving to perish. The crucifixion of Jesus is the most notable instance of this method. Gibbeting. The victim is placed in cage hanging from a gallows-type structure in a public location and left to die to deter other existing or potential criminals ...

  3. Execution of Oleksandr Matsievskyi - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The video of the execution circulated online around 6 March 2023, showing a soldier without weapons, smoking a cigarette, saying "Slava Ukraini" and then being shot with automatic weapons from multiple sides. [3] The 30th Mechanized Brigade initially named Tymofii Shadura as the victim and a video of the shooting was shared on social ...

  4. Category:Executions by method - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version ... The subcategories in this category list people according to the method used to execute them. ... People executed by crucifixion ...

  5. 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.

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  7. Category:Crucifixion - Wikipedia

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    Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden beam and left to hang, perhaps for several days, until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation

  8. Death by boiling - Wikipedia

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    Death by boiling is a method of execution in which a person is killed by being immersed in a boiling liquid. While not as common as other methods of execution, boiling to death has been practiced in many parts of Europe and Asia. Due to the lengthy process, death by boiling is an extremely painful method of execution.

  9. Descriptions in antiquity of the execution cross - Wikipedia

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    Whether the two pieces of timber of the normal execution cross were permanently conjoined or were merely put together for the purpose of the execution is not stated. Atypical executions on cross-like structures also took place, "especially when the executioners decide[d] to engage in cruel creativity", as indicated by Seneca the Younger .