Then you’ve got the a more local method of torture, known as ‘the rack’.
The way it works is you lie your victim on a table – with a couple of rollers at either end – tie their arms and legs to the rollers, and as you turn them, it pulls them further and further away.
Now, if you think both of the mentioned methods are horrible, let me bring your attention to the ‘Poena Cullei’, known as the ‘worst Roman punishment’.
YouTuber Zack D. Films – who has shared a horrifying simulation of the torture method – explained: “They would be placed into a sack alongside a monkey, a snake and a chicken.
Just awful (YouTube/Zack D. Films)
“This punishment was saved for people who killed their parents.
“Once sealed, the sack was thrown into a river, as the person inside struggled to breathe, the panicked animals would attack, creating a chaotic and brutal scenario.
“The goal was to ensure that the punishment was as horrifying as the crime.”
Viewers were stunned by the very graphic simulation video, as one person commented: “It’s 10:41pm Zack the damn screaming woke the baby up, better be happy she likes watching you.”
“Imagine being suspected and punished for something, you didn’t even do in the medieval age,” another penned.
While a third said: “A detail not mentioned: some variations of this involved a water tight (or at least water-resistant) leather sack being used to ensure that the person died of their wounds and not drowning.”
“I really just feel bad for the animals in the sack with them, they didn’t have any business with them,” a fourth said.
“Zack NEVER EVER fails to traumatise the living hell out of me,” penned a fifth.
As someone else pointed out: “This is just so painful for both humans and animals no living thing should ever go through this torture.”
Featured Image Credit: YouTube/Zack D. Films
Anish Vij
The man who suffered the ‘worst execution’ in history was given a punishment that was ‘beyond evil’
Yikes
Over the centuries, humanity has found new and more barbaric ways of torturing people.
But one method of execution has been branded the worst ever… and it’s hard to argue. Have a look for yourself:
The story of Richard Roose is about as grizzly as it gets when it comes to Tudor England’s penchant for capital punishment.
In 1531, he was working as a cook for John Fisher, the Bishop of Rochester, and was accused of poisoning his guests while working at his home in Lambeth.
It was alleged at the time that he had added some suspicious powder to the guests’ porridge, as well as that of two beggers.
Everyone was suddenly taken ill, while Roose was said to have run away.
While Fisher’s guests managed to survive the bout of sickness, the beggers died.
According to YouTube channel The Fortress, he was swiftly arrested and taken to the Tower of London, where he was put on the rack and tortured for information.
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Roose claimed that he was told to add the powder to the food as a joke, and was unaware that it was going to kill anyone.
But the reigning monarch of the time, King Henry VIII, led an act of parliament that made murder by poison a treasonous offence.
“On 28 February 1531, Henry VIII told Parliament of the poisoning plot, and Roose was then condemned to die based on what the King said had happened, rather than concrete evidence,” The Fortress explains.
“The King’s word was final, and he also expanded the definition of treason, saying that murder by poisoning was classed as treason.”
But Henry wasn’t done there with his legal fiddling, oh no.
The vengeful monarch also decided to change the punishment for such a crime, because, well, he could.
The standard practice for treason involved the criminal being dragged through the streets by a cart, then hanged, before finally having their genitals removed and their insides cut out.
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However, Henry got a little more creative for Roose, instead opting to boil him alive.
Told you it was bad.
Yep, crowds gathered at Smithfield in London, where Roose was brought and dunked three times into a huge cauldron of boiling water until he was dead.
Upon learning of the barbaric sentence, some have, unsurprisingly, been utterly horrified by it all.
Commenting online, one person branded it the ‘worst execution’.
Another wrote: “It’s hard to fathom the brutality these people inflicted on one another. We are the cruelest of all living species.”
“Even if guilty this punishment is beyond evil,” put a third.
