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Originally Posted by Posher778
Don't even ask me why i'm interested, but, what were the most brutal forms of execution and torture, from any time period?
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You guys are really coming through with threads these last couple of days. ;)
hanged, drawn and quartered. Called "Drawn and Quartered"
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Originally Posted by wiki
To be hanged, drawn, and quartered was the penalty once ordained in England for treason. It is considered by many to be the epitome of "cruel" punishment, and was reserved for treason as this crime was deemed more heinous than murder and other capital offences. It was only applied to male criminals. Women found guilty of treason in England were burnt at the stake, a punishment abolished in 1790.
Details of the punishment
Until 1870, the full punishment for the crime was to be "hanged, drawn, and quartered" in that the convict would be:
Dragged on a hurdle (a wooden frame) to the place of execution. (drawn)
Hanged by the neck for a short time or removed until almost dead. (hanged).
Disembowelled, and the genitalia and entrails burned before the victim's eyes (often mistaken for drawing).
Beheaded and the body divided into four parts (quartered).
Typically, the resulting five parts (i.e. the four quarters of the body and the head) were gibbeted (put on public display) in different parts of the city, town, or, in famous cases, country, to deter would-be traitors. Gibbeting was abolished in England in 1843.
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My favorite method of execution is still impalement, but I have to give the most cruelty points to being drawn and quartered. I'll write a big post on impalement is a minute. :)