What is the most painful method of execution in history?

I would say the punishment for treason in the United Kingdom until 1867, known as drawing and quartering. It was horrifically painful, and it was supposed to be. Do not be caught for treason in the UK (see this article from the people behind the Encyclopedia Britannica for more historical information drawing and quartering | punishment).

Basically what would happen is they would be hanged (not until death), disemboweled (your guts cut open and spilled) and possibly burned (but not enough to kill you immediately). Then, if you were lucky…you would have your head cut off. If you were not, and even if you were…but at least you wouldn’t be alive for it, you would be drug over to the horses. One would be tied to each of your limbs and set off. Slowly but surely your body would be ripped into 4 chunks. Thus, the reason it was called ‘quartering’.

If you were unlucky enough to not be hanged until you were dead, bleed to death before they could finish, or be beheaded and only died during the quartering…that was the most painful method of execution in history. At least that I am aware of. The Vikings had a decent comparable punishment in the ‘blood eagle’ and the Romans had crucifixion. However, if you limit it to the modern era (you know…within 300 years)…the British win.

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No method of execution is painless...

The way the 10 martyrs were killed in the Bible ,specially the one that was thrown into a boiling oil to fry.what a way to die!!!

ReneeNuttall:
The way the 10 martyrs were killed in the Bible ,specially the one that was thrown into a boiling oil to fry.what a way to die!!!

he stil didnt die,tthough some years later bt survived the oil

People can be so cruel.

Pieromania:
he stil didnt die,tthough some years later bt survived the oil

seriously?

ReneeNuttall:

seriously?

Yes o. History says although his skin was scared, he was completely unhatm. He was then sentenced on exile to the island of Patmos. That was where he received the revelation for the last book in the bible. His name was...John the beloved.

ReneeNuttall:

seriously?

Yes
After the death of Peter in 67 A.D John the beloved died in 97 A.D It is said that Roman emperor Domitian commanded that the apostle John be boiled to death in oil, but John only continued to preach from within the pot. Another time, John was forced to drink poison, but, as promised in Mark 16:18, it did not hurt him. Thus John, the head of the church in Ephesus at the time, was banished to Patmos in A.D. 97.

Pieromania:
Yes
After the death of Peter in 67 A.D John the beloved died in 97 A.D It is said that Roman emperor Domitian commanded that the apostle John be boiled to death in oil, but John only continued to preach from within the pot. Another time, John was forced to drink poison, but, as promised in Mark 16:18, it did not hurt him. Thus John, the head of the church in Ephesus at the time, was banished to Patmos in A.D. 97.

Oboy! am short of words! in fact am lost.

nnamdiosu:



Yes o. History says although his skin was scared, he was completely unhatm. He was then sentenced on exile to the island of Patmos. That was where he received the revelation for the last book in the bible. His name was...John the beloved.

Thanks for this info,u knw those days wen I was small ,we had a calendar of the martyrs. How they all died was stated,so I grew up with that mentality.

Quartering is quite devilish but I believe sawing should be on the list as well.

They would hang you upside down; the reason, so your brain would continually recieve oxygen because of blood gathering at the head due to gravity, a medical doctor would be able to explain this properly.

After that was done, your legs would be parted, and a doubled handed saw would be used to cut through the groin down. You won't die quickly, yet you will feel every bleeping pain, you would feel you gut being sliced. It gets to a pont where you won't be able to take it anymore and finally succumb.

I added a diagram to give a graphical explanation of the above paragraphs.