1. By the use of animals
Devouring by animals, as in damnatio ad bestias (i.e., as in the cliché, "being thrown to the lions", as well as by alligators, crocodiles ,piranha and sharks. Stings from scorpions and bites by snakes, spiders, etc. (e.g. the " Snake pit " of Germanic legend) Tearing apart by horses ( e.g. , in medieval Europe and Imperial China , with four horses; or " quartering", with four horses, as in The Song of Roland and Child Owlet ).Trampling by horses (example: Al-Musta'sim , the last Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad).

2. Back-breaking
A Mongolian method of execution that avoided the spilling of blood on the ground (example: the Mongolian leader Jamukha was probably executed this way in 1206).

3.Blowing from a gun
Tied to the mouth of a cannon, which is then fired.

4. Blood Eagle
Cutting the skin of the victim by the spine, breaking the ribs so they resembled blood-stained wings, and pulling the lungs out through the wounds in the victim's back. Used by the
Vikinger

5. Boiling to death
This penalty was carried out using a large cauldron
filled with water, oil, tar, tallow, or even molten lead.

6. Breaking wheel
Also known as the Catherine wheel, after a saint who was allegedly sentenced to be executed by this method.

7. Buried alive
Traditional punishment for Vestal virgins who had
broken their vows.

8.Burning
Most 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 in torturing their captives to death.

9. crucifixion
Roping or nailing to a wooden cross or similar
apparatus (such as a tree) and allowing to perish.
Crushing By a weight, abruptly or as a slow ordeal.

10. Decapitation
Also known as beheading. One of the most famous
execution methods is execution by guillotine.

11.Disembowelment
Often employed as a preliminary stage to the
actual execution, e.g. by beheading; an integral part
of seppuku ( harakiri), which was sometimes used as a form of capital punishment.

12.Dismemberment
Being drawn and quartered sometimes resulted in
dismemberment.

13 Drawing and quartering
English method of executing those found guilty of high treason.

14. Electrocution The electric chair .

15 Falling
The victim is thrown off aheight or into a hollow
(example: the Barathron in Athens, into which the
Athenian generals condemned for their part in the battle of Arginusae were cast). In Argentina
during the Dirty War, those secretly abducted were
later drugged and thrown from an airplane into the
ocean.

16. Flaying The skin is removed from the body.

17. Garrote
Used most commonly in Spain and in former Spanish colonies (e.g. the Philippines), used to strangle or choke someone.

18. Gas
Death by asphyxiation or poison gas in a sealed
chamber .

19. Gibbeting
The act of gibbeting refers to the use of a gallows-
type structure from which the victim was usually
placed within a cage which is then hung in a public
location and the victim left to die to deter other
existing or potential criminals.

20.Hanging
One of the most common methods of execution, still
in use in a number of countries.

21. Immurement
The confinement of a person by walling off any exits; since they were usually kept alive throughan opening, this was more a form of imprisonment for life than of capital punishment (example: the countess Elisabeth
Báthory , who lived for fourmore years after having
been immured).

22.Impalement
Keelhauling European maritime punishment.

23.Poisoning
Lethal injection . Before
modern times, sayak of china was the method of
capital punishment of nobles ( yangban) and members of the royal family during the Joseon
Dynasty in Korea due to the Confucianist belief that
one may kill a seonbi but
may not insult him.

24.Pendulum
A type of machine with an axe head for a weight that
slices closer to the victim's torso over time.
( Of disputed historicity.)

25.Sawing ( Of disputed historicity.)

26Scaphism
An Ancient Persian method of execution in which the
condemned was placed in between two boats, force
fed a mixture of honey and milk, and left floating in a
stagnant pond. The victim would then suffer from
severe diarrhea, which would attract insects that would burrow, nest, and feed on the unfortunate
victim. The unfortunate victim would eventually die
from septic shock .

27.Shooting
By cannon (see Blowing from a gun)
By firing squad
By a single shot (such
as the neck shot, oftenperformed on a kneeling
prisoner, as in China ).

28 Slow slicing

29.Smothering (Asphyxia) Suffocation in ash

30 Starvation /Dehydration Immurement.

31. Stoning
The condemned is pummeled by stones thrown by a group of people with the totality of the injuries suffered leading to eventual death.

30 Strangulation

31. Suffocation

32. Thumbscrew
More of a torture device, it was used to extract
information from prisoners. Many a times, the punished would succumb to injuries and ultimately
die.

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