Execution in Alcatrase Tin Soldier. The most terrible executions of the world

With the development of civilization, human life has gained value, regardless of social status and wealth. Thus, it's terrible to read about black pages of history, when the law did not just deprive the person of life, but turned an execution in the spectacle to fun with a simple person. In other cases, the execution could be ritual or edifying. Unfortunately, and in modern history There are similar episodes. We collected a list of the most cruel executions ever practiced people.

Executions of the ancient world

Skafism

The word "scaffle" is formed from the ancient Greek word "bark", "boat", and the method itself went down in history, thanks to Plutarch, who described the execution of the Greek ruler of Mithridate at the order of Artaxerks, the king of ancient Persians.

At first, the person undressed her devils and tied inside the two lobble boats in such a way that the head, arms and feet remained outside the outside, which were thickly deceived by honey. Then the victim was forced by a mixture of milk and honey to cause diarrhea. After that, the boat was descended to standing water - pond or lake. The insects adorn the smell of honey and unclean insects stuck the human body, slowly devoured the flesh and larvaed larvae into the generated gangrenous ulcers. The victim remained alive for two weeks. Death fell from three factors: infection, depletion and dehydration.

The execution through the plant on the thread was invented in Assyria (Sovr. Iraq). In this way, the inhabitants of rebeling cities and women who made an abortion were punished - then this procedure was considered a decision.

The execution was carried out in two ways. With one embodiment, the convict picked up the chest cooke, with a friend - the edge of the cola passed through the body through anus. Multiple people were often portrayed on bas-reliefs as editing. Later, this execution began to be applied to the peoples of the Middle East and the Mediterranean, as well as Slavic peoples and some European.

Execution elephants

This method was used mainly in India and Sri Lanka. Indian elephants are well for training than and used the rulers of Southeast Asia.

There were a lot of ways to kill a person with an elephant. For example, on the appearance, armor was worn with sharp spears, which the elephant pierced the criminal and then, still alive, ruptured on the part. But most often the elephants were trained to press the foot by a convicted foot and alternately tear off the limbs by a trunk. In India, the defeated man often simply threw an angry animal under the feet. For reference, the Indian elephant weighs about 5 tons.

Tradition of beasts

Per beautiful phrase "Damnatio AD Bestias" lies the painful death of thousands of ancient Romans, especially there were many among the early Christians. Although, of course, this method was invented long before the Romans. Usually, lions were used for execution, bears, panthers, leopards and buffaloes were less popular.

There were two varieties of execution. Often sentenced to death tied to a pillar in the middle of the Gladiator's Arena and descended wild beasts on him. There were variations: threw a cell to a hungry animal or tied to his back. In another case, the unfortunate was forced to go on a fight against the beast. They had a simple spear, and from "Armpeople" - Tunic. In both cases, many viewers were collected on the execution.

Death on the cross

The crucifixion on the cross came up with the Phoenicians - the ancient people of the navigators who lived on the Mediterranean. Later, this method was adopted by the Carthaginian, and then the Romans. The Israelis and Romans death on the cross considered the most shameful, because he was executed by the harmonious criminals, slaves and traitors.

Before the crucifixion of a person, undressed, leaving only a loin bandage. It was beaten with leather scam either with fresh cut rods, after which they forced the very penetration of the cross weighing about 50 kilograms to the place of crucifixion. Inside the cross in the ground by the road outside the city or on a hill, a man was raised by rope and nailed to the horizontal bar. Sometimes a convicted person had previously crushed her feet with an iron rod. Death has occurred from exhaustion, dehydration or pain.

After the ban of Christianity in the feudal Japan XVII century. The crucifix was applied against the visits of missionaries and the Japanese Christians. The execution scene on the cross is present in the Drama Martin Scorsese "Silence", which narrates precisely about this period.

Execution bamboo

The ancient Chinese were champions on sophisticated torture and executions. One of the most exotic ways to kill - stretching the guilty over the growing shoots of a young bamboo. Through human body The sprouts made their way for several days, causing these incredible suffering from execution.

Ling Chi.

Ling Chi is translated into Russian as "bits of the sea pussy". There was another name - "death from thousands of cuts." This method was used during the rule of the Qing dynasty, and they were executed in such a way of high-ranking officials who were appealed to corruption. Every year, 15-20 people were gained.

The essence of "Ling Chi" - in gradual cutting from the body of small parts. For example, banging one phalanx of the finger, the executioner made a wound and then searched to the next one. How many pieces need to cut off from the body, determined the court. The most popular verdict was cut in 24 parts, and the most revealed criminals sentenced to 3 thousand cuts. In such cases, the victim was poured by opium: so she did not lose consciousness, but the pain made his way even through the veil of narcotic intoxication.

Sometimes, in a special grace, the ruler could order the executioner first to kill the body sentenced with one blow and stretch already. This method The executions practiced 900 years and was banned in 1905.

Kazenny Middle Ages

Bloody eagle

Historians questioned the existence of the Bloody Eagle execution, but the mention of it is found in the Scandinavian folklore. This method was used by residents of the Scandinavian countries in the Epoch of the Early Middle Ages.

The harsh vikings killed their enemies as painfully and symbolic. Man tied his hands and put the belly on the stump. The skin on the back was neatly cut with a sharp blade, then the ribs were subsequently, having gone out them in the form, reminding the eagle wings. After that, the lungs extracted from another living victim and hang them on the ribs.

This execution is shown twice in the TV series "Vikings" with Travis Fimmel (in the 7 series of 2 seasons and the 18 series of 4 seasons), although the audience noted the contradictions of the serial execution with the one that was told in the folk "senior EDDE".

"Bloody Eagle" in the TV series "Vikings"

Tearing trees

Such a penalty was distributed in many regions of the world, including in Russia in the pre-Christian period. The sacrifice was tied to the feet to two tilted trees, which then looked sharply. One of the legends states that the prince of Igor was killed by the Dwarons in 945 - for what he wanted to gather with them tribute.

Quartering

The method was used as in medieval Europe. Each limit was tied to horses - animals were torn off sentenced to 4 parts. In Russia, also practiced quarters, but under this word I understood a completely different penalty - the executioner alternately cut off the ax first legs, then his hands, and then head.

Wheel

Keeping as a view of the death penalty was widely used in France and Germany during the Middle Ages. In Russia, this kind of execution is known and at a later time - from the XVII to the XIX century. The essence of punishment was that first the guilty face to the sky tied to the wheel, fastening her arms and legs on the spokes. After that, he was crowned with limbs and left to die in the sun.

Flaying

Freshness, or skin touching, was invented in Assyria, then passed into Persia and spread throughout Ancient world. In the Middle Ages, the Inquisition improved this type of execution - with the help of a device, which was called "Spanish tag", the skin of a man burst into small nurses, which did not make up labor.

Welding Zamivo

This execution was also invented in antiquity and received a second breath in the Middle Ages. So executed mostly counterfeiters. The man has shown in fake rushed in a boiler with boiling water, resin or butter. This kind was rather humane - the criminal quickly died of pain. More sophisticated executioners put the challenged to the boiler with cold waterwhich heated gradually, or slowly lowered it in boiling water, starting with the feet. The cooked muscles of the legs were separated from the bones, and the person was still alive.
This execution is practiced and East Extremists. According to the former bodyguard Saddam Hussein, he witnessed an acid execution: first in the pool filled with a bare substance lowered the feet of the victim, and then threw entirely. And in 2016, the militants of the prohibited organization ISIL dissolved 25 people in a boiler with acid.

Cement boots

This method is well familiar to many of our readers on gangster cinema. Really killed such cruel method His enemies and traitors during the time of mafia wars in Chicago. The victim was tied to the chair, then put a basin under the feet, filled with liquid cement. And when he froze, the man was taken to the nearest reservoir and threw off the boat. Cement shoes MiG dragged him to breed fish.

Flights of death

In 1976, General Jorge came to power in Argentina. He led the country for only 5 years, but remained in history as one of the most terrible dictators in modern times. Among other atrocities, they saw the so-called "death flights".

A person who spoke against Tiran's regime was pumped by barbiturates and in an unconscious state carried on board the aircraft, then discharged down - without fail.

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In the old days, they were sentenced to death for all sorts of crimes: from murder to small stealing. Most often executed executions were public, so to attract more Zewak Calculation Act tried to make more spectacular. And in this human imagination there was no borders.

Copper Bull

Before execution, the language was sliced, and then locked it inside the copper bull. Under the bang they burned a huge bonfire, and the poor was practically roasted in it alive. In connection with the absence of the language of screaming, he could not, so everything that he had remained is to fight the hot walls. From the blows bull rushed and, it seemed, came to life, causing a rapid delight of the crowd.

Execution of peplov

The person was locked in a close embarrassing room filled with ashes. The criminal died in long torment, which lasted sometimes several days or weeks.

Elephant penalty

Sentenced to the death penalty was given to the confusion of a specially trained elephant executioner. He felt the sacrifice, and that died of injuries. Andver the criminals that an elephant occurred on the head can be said, it was still lucky - they died quickly and without torment - while other elephant could be tormented by hours.

Bamboo execution

The famous bamboo property - fast growth - Sick human imagination also used torturing sentenced to death. The body of a person had over the shoots of a young bamboo, and the plant sprout through it, causing unthinkable suffering to the victim.

Milk and medical

The convict was placed in a boat, fastening his body in such a way that he could not move. For a long time The poor fell fought with milk and honey. If he refused to eat, he was poketed with a sharp stick as long as he opened his mouth. The skin of the sentence was also failed with honey. Soon the hordes of insects attracted by the sweet smell, they pounced on the body and literally eaten the poor man alive.

Bloody eagle

At the same time, the method of execution of the sentenced and put on the stomach. Then the skin on the back was plowed and overtaken by the ax, all the ribs so that they stick out the outside, like the wings. After that, a person is usually still alive. For a mellowing wounds sprinkled with salt. And only after some time, a person finally was given to die, pulling out the heart and lungs from the explosive body.

Necklace

This kind of execution invented today. On the neck or waist, a man dressed a rubber tire filled with gasoline, and ignited. Sentenced to death suffocates from ugly smoke and burns alive.

One of the most famous prisons in the world is an American alcatras prison ( Alcatraz.), also known as the rock (from English - Rock), which is located on a small island of San Francisco Bay. For several decades, the prison has been closed, however, thanks to numerous stories and rumors, people with the word "Alcatras" will still think for a long time about prison, and not about the island itself!

The prison was not at all because of the numerous films taken out here, but because of the prisoners who were sitting in their chambers. Alcatrase contained the most brutal US criminals! I received my name in 1775, when Spaniard Juang Manuel Ayala arrived in the Bay of San Francisco Bay ( Juan Manuel de Ayala). In total, there are three islands in the bay, and the Spaniard gave one of them alcatraces. The meaning of this word still causes hot disputes, but most converges in the opinion that it translates as "Pelican" or "Strange Bird".

Initially, the island was used as a military fortress, which was later transformed into a federal correctional establishment.

Alcatraz was famous for the fact that it was impossible to escape from it. The reason for this at first glance is a controversial statement in the fact that the prison is located in the center of the bay near the city of San Francisco and you can only get to it on water.

However, water is not the only obstacle on the way possible fugitive.

The fact is that the water temperature of the bay is not high, and the flows are very strong, so even the excellent swimmer will not be able to overcome
the distance is a little more than two kilometers from the island to San Francisco.

Alcatraz was also the first long-term military prison. In the 1800s, captives of civil and Spanish-American
wars were the first prisoners who arrived on the island. Later, because of the isolated location and
the insurmountable cold water of the bay, the authorities considered alcatras as an ideal place to keep dangerous prisoners.

At first, Alcatrace or Alcazar was simply another federal correctional institution, but over time the prison became famous after it was serving such criminals such as George Kelly (George "Machine Gun" Kelly), Robert Stroud (Robert Franklin Stroud) , Alvis Karps (Alvin Karpis), Henry Young (Henry Young) and Al Capone (Al Capone). Criminals who could not keep other corrective establishments were also located here. The average number of prisoners in Alcatrase was approximately 260, and over all time, 1545 prisoners visited it for 29 years of prisoners. During this time there were attempts to make escape, but not a single official record about the success of at least one of them. Several prisoners disappeared, but they are all recognized as drowned in the waters of the bay.

However, soon the first prisoners appeared on the island. These were not attacked by criminals at all, but ordinary soldiers who violated any decree. The more Alcatrase became prisoners, the less to the guns became in the fortress. It will take several years before the fortress finally loses its original value and turn into one of the most famous prisons on Earth!

Already in 1909, the fortress was demolished, and a prison was built in her place. The construction was conducted for two years, and the main working force was prisoners from the Pacific division of the disciplinary barracks of the US Army. It is this construction in consequence and will be called "rock".

Prison on the island Alcatras should have become a real dungeon for the most unfinished criminals with minimal rights for prisoners. Thus, the US government wanted to show society, which makes everything possible to fight crime, which overwhelmed the country in the 20s and 30th of the last century.

The entire Alcatrase prison was designed for 336 people, but it usually contained much less prisoners. Many believe that Alcatrace is one of the most gloomy and cruel prisons on Earth, but this is not quite so. Despite the fact that it was positioned as a prison of a particularly strict regime, the cameras here were single and quite comfortable. Many prisoners from other prisons even wrote applications for transfer to Alcatraz!

Alone of the most famous prisoners Alcatraz are Al Capon, Arthur Dock Barker and George "Machine gun" Kelly, but the overwhelming majority of local criminals were far from the tufts and killers.

In prison on the island, they usually sat down only those prisoners that were prone to run. The fact is that escape from here was almost unrealistic. Of course, there were a lot of attempts, and many of the prisoners even managed to get out of the prison itself, but here to leave the island was an impracticable task. Strong flows and ice water thugged a lot of fugitives, who decided to get to big land! In total, during the time Alcatrace used as a federal prison, 14 attempts were made, in which 36 people participated in total. No one of them managed to leave the island alive ...

On March 21, 1962, the prison on Alcatrass island officially close. It is believed that it was closed due to the considerable cost of the content of the prisoners, as well as the need for expensive restoration work. Several years have passed, and in 1973 the legendary prison became available to the general public. Today Alcatrass is visited annually tens of thousands of tourists.

The Alcatrase Prison consisted of 336 cameras for serving the conclusion, broken into two large blocks "B" and "C", 36 isolated chambers, 6 single cameras in a separate block "D". Two cameras at the end of the block "C" were used as rest recreation rooms. Most of the prisoners in Alcazare are those who were recognized by particularly cruel and dangerous, those who could take an attempt to run, as well as those who most likely refuse to follow the rules of behavior and orders in another federal correctional institution.

Alcatraz's prisoners could earn privileges, which were in the work, visits of family members, access to the prison library, rest - drawing and music. The prisoners had only four basic rights - food, clothing, shelter and medical care.

In Alcatraz, there were no equipment for committing the death penalty, so those prisoners who were awarded a death sentence were sent to San Quentin's urban prison for execution in a gas chamber.

Despite strict rules and strict standards for the offenses of criminals, Alcatraz mainly worked in the minimum security mode. Types of work performed by prisoners differed depending on the prisoner, type of work and the degree of responsibility. Many worked as servants: they prepared food, removed, carried out economic affairs for families living on the island. The security officers Alcatraz lived on the island with their families in a separate building and were essentially partly by the prisoners of Alcatraz. In many cases, individual prisoners trusted to take care even about the children of prison staff. Alcatraz was also a house for several Chinese families who were hired as servants.

It is officially believed that there was not a single successful attempt to flee from the cliff, but still five prisoners from Alcatraz are listed as "missing, allegedly drowned."

* On April 27, 1936 - Joe Bauers, who was instructed to burn garbage that day, unexpectedly began to climb the fence. The guard made him a warning, but Joe ignored him and got a shot in his back. Died from injured in the hospital.

* On December 16, 1937 - those who worked in the store Theodore Cole and Ralph Roy decided to escape through the iron grille on the window. They managed to get out of the window, after which they succeeded to the water and disappeared in the Gulf of San Francisco. Despite the fact that it was on this day that the storm broke out, many believed that the fugitives managed to get to the sushi. But officially they were considered dead.

* On May 23, 1938 - James Limerick, Jimmy Lucas and Rafas Franklin, who worked in a wood product shop, attacked the unarmed guard and killed him a hammer blow. Then the Trinity climbed to the roof and tried to disarm the officer who guarded the roof of the tower, but he opened fire. Limerick died from injuries, and the rest of the couple received a life sentence.

* January 13, 1939 - Arthur Dock Barker, Dale Stamphil, William Martin, Henry Young and Rafas McCain fled from the insulating compartment to the housing, where the chambers for the zekov were located. They squeezed the lattices, got out of the building through the window and headed for the edge of the water. The guard discovered fugitives already on the West Bank of the Island. Martin, Young and McCain surrendered, and in Barker and Stamphil, who refused to obey the orders, were injured. Barker died in a few days.

* May 21, 1941 - Joe Cretzer, Sam Shokley, Arnold Kyle and Lloyd Bacdoll captured several guards, under whose supervision worked, hostage. But the guards managed to convince prisoners to surrender. It is significant that one of these guards subsequently became the third commandant of Alcatraz.

* September 15, 1941 - During garbage harvest, John Bayles tried to run. But Icewater in the San Francisco Bay made him return to the shore. Later, when he was taken to the San Francisco Federal Court, he tried to flee and from there. But again unsuccessfully.

* April 14, 1943 - James Borman, Harold Brest, Floyd Hamilton and Fred Hunter captured two guards hostage in the zone where prisoners worked. Through the window, they got out and jumped into the water. But one of the guards managed to signal about the state of emergency to his colleagues, and officers who have broken down in the footsteps of the fugitives, overtake them only at the moment when they were already floating from the island. Someone from the guards rushed into the water, someone opened fire. As a result, Hunter and Brest managed to delay, Bormany wounded and he drowned. And Hamilton was recognized as sinking. Although in fact he was hiding in a small gorge in a small gorge, and then returned to the territory where the arrestants worked. There and was captured by the guards.

* On August 7, 1943 - Charon Ted Walters disappeared from the laundry room, but it was caught on the shore of the bay.

* On July 31, 1945 - one of their most thoughtful attempts to escape. John Giles often worked in a prison laundry, and an army form, which was specifically sent to the island specifically for this. Once he stole a complete set of shape, changed her clothes and quietly left prison and went for lunch with the military. Unfortunately for him, that day the military lunch on Angel Island, and not in San Francisco, as Jailes assumed. In addition, his disappearance from prison was immediately noticed. Therefore, as soon as he was on Angel, he was arrested and sent back to Alcatraz.

* May 2-4, 1946 - This day is known as "Battle for Alcatraz". Six arrestants disarmed guards, and captured the bundle of keys from the prison unit. But their plan began to give a failure when the prisoners found that they did not have a key from the door leading to the yard for recreation. Soon, the prison administration suspected non-Ladnoe. But instead of surrender, prisoners had resistance. As a result, four of them returned to their cameras, but before opened fire on the guards captured hostage. One officer died from injuries, the second officer was killed while trying to restore control over the prison unit. About 18 guards were injured. American sailors were immediately caused to the rescue, and on May 4, the Bunth ended with the murder of three prisoners. Subsequently, two "rebels" received a death sentence and graduated from their days in a gas chamber in 1948. A 19-year-old participant of Bunt received a lifelong conclusion.

* On July 23, 1956 - Floyd Wilson disappeared from work in the dock. For a few hours, he hid among the rocks, but when he was discovered, he surrendered.

* September 29, 1958 - removing the garbage, Aaor Bargett and Clyde Johnson depends the prison officer and tried to float. Johnson was caught in water, but Bargetta disappeared. Intensive searches did not give results. Bargetta's body was found in San Francisco Bay two weeks later.

* On June 11, 1962, this is the most well-known escape attempt thanks to the clint of Iover and the film "Escape from Alcatraza" (1979). Frank Morris and John's brothers and Clarence Angin were able to disappear from their cameras, and no one had seen them. The fourth person, Allen West, also participated in the preparation of escape, but for unknown reasons remained in the chamber the next morning when the escape was discovered. The investigation has shown that the fugitives prepared not only fake bricks to close the holes done in the wall, but also realistic dolls in beds stuffed with human hair to hide the absence of prisoners during nightlife. The trinity came out through the ventilation pipe, adjacent to their cameras. The fugitives climbed the pipe to the roof of the prison unit (they previously dispersed iron grilles in ventilation). In the northern end of the building, they descended along the drain pipe, and thus got to the water. As a floating ground, they used prison jackets and made in advance rafts. As a result of a thorough search in the chains, the fugitives found tools, with the help of which prisoners dreded the walls, and in the bay, there was one rescue vest, converged from the prison jacket, oars, as well as carefully stored photographs and letters belonging to the Angin brothers. A few weeks later, a man's body was found in the water, dressed in a blue suit, similar to a prison robe, but the state of the body did not allow it to identify. Morris and the Angul Brothers are officially enrolled in the list of missing and presumably drowned.

March 21, 1963, the prison on Alcatraz closed. According to the official version, this was done because of too much expenses for the content of prisoners on the island. The prison required the repair in the amount of about $ 3-5 million. In addition, the content of prisoners on the island was too expensive compared to the mainland prison, since everything regularly had to be delivered from the mainland.

Currently, the prison is disbanded, the island turned into a museum where the ferry from San Francisco from the pier number 33.

What do you think torture were the most terrible during the Middle Ages? Lack of toothpaste good soap or shampoo? What medieval discos was conducted under the tedious music of Mandolin? And maybe the fact that medicine has not yet known vaccinations and antibiotics? Or endless wars?

Yes, our ancestors did not attend cinemas and did not send each other emails. But they were also inventors. And the worst thing that they invented are tools for torture, tools, with the help of which the Christian justice system was created - the Inquisition. And for those who lived in the Middle Ages, "Iron Maidn" is not the name of the hevie metal group, but one of the most disgusting gadgets of that time.

These are not "three girls under the window." This is a huge sarcophagus in the form of an open empty female figure, inside which numerous blades and sharp spikes are strengthened. They are located in such a way that the victims of the victim's sarcophagus are not affected by the victims, so the agony of sentenced to execution was long and painful. For the first time, the "virgin" was used in 1515. Surrender died three days.

This device was inserted into the body holes - it is clear that not in the mouth or ears - and revealed so as to cause the victim a unthinkable pain, breaking these holes.

This torture was developed in Greece, Athens. This was the form of a bull made of metal (brass) and a hollow inside, with a door side. The convict was placed inside the "bull". The fire was lit and heated to such an extent that the brass was becoming yellow, which eventually led to slow toasting. The bull was so arranged that when screaming and screaming from the inside - a roar bull roar was heard.

Torture rats were very popular in ancient China. Nevertheless, we will consider the technique of rat punishment, developed by the leader of the Netherlands revolution of the 16th century by Didrick Sonozh.

How it works?

1. The martyr's dough is put on the table and tie;
2. Big heavy cells With hungry rats, the arrestant on the belly and the chest is put. The bottom of the cells opens with the help of a special gate;
3. On the cells on top there are hot coals to fool the rats;
4. Trying to escape from the heat of hot coal, the rats tear off their way through the victim's flesh.

Know-how belongs to Martili Ippolit. At one time, this instrument of torture was considered loyal - the bones did not break, the ligaments did not rush. At first, the sinner was raised on the rope, and then sat on the cradle, and the top of the triangle was inserted into the same holes as a pear. It was painfully to such an extent that the sinner lost consciousness. He was lifted, "pumped out" and again embarked on the cradle. I do not think that in moments of enlightenment, sinners thanked Ippolita for his invention.

During the several centuries, this penalty was practiced in India and Indochite. An elephant is very easy to train and teach him to hide his huge legs to the victim of a few days

How it works?

1. The victim is tied to the floor;
2. A trained elephant is given to the hall so that he crushed the head of the head;
3. Sometimes in front of the "control in the head", the animals give away the victims of the arms and legs in order to enjoy the public.

This device is an oblong rectangle with a wooden frame. Hands were firmly fixed on top. As interrogation / torture, the executioner twisted the lever, with each man's turnover stretched and adopted the hellish pain. For the completion of torture, a man either just died from pain, TC His joints were pulled out.

Torture "Bed of the Dead Man" Chinese Communist Party applies mainly to those prisoners who are trying to protest against illegal conclusion with the help of a hunger strike. In most cases, these are prisoners of conscience in prison for their beliefs.

How it works?

1. The hands and legs of the spreading devotee of the prisoner are tied to the corners of the bed, on which instead of a mattress wooden board with a cut hole. Under the hole is substituted with a bucket for feces. Often, the rods are tightly tied to the bed and the body of a person so that he could not move at all. In this position, the person is continuously from several days to weeks.
2. In some prisons, for example, Prison No. 2 of the cities of Shenyang and the prison of the city of Jilin, the police officers under the sacrifice are still lining a solid subject to strengthen suffering.
3. It also happens that the bed is vertically and 3-4 days a man hangs, stretched for limb.
4. Even the violent feeding is added to these torments, which is carried out using a tube inserted through the nose into the esophagus, into which liquid food is poured.
5. They do this procedure mainly prisoners on the orders of security, not health workers. They do it very rude and not professionally, often inflicting grave damage internal organs man.
6. Those who passed through this torture say that the vertebrae, the joints of the arms and legs, as well as numbness and the blaracing of the limbs, are shifted to it, which often leads to disability.

One of medieval tortureused in modern Chinese prisons is wearing a wooden clamp. It is put on the prisoner, why he cannot normally go or stand.

The clamp is a board from 50 to 80 cm. In length, from 30 to 50 cm. In width and 10 - 15 cm. Thick. In the middle of the clamp made two holes for the legs.

The sacrifice on which the clamp will be rushed, with difficulty moves, should drive it into bed and should usually sit or lie, since vertical position Causes pain and leads to injury. Without assistance, a person with a clamp cannot go to eat or go to the toilet. When a person gets up from the bed, the claw not only presses on his feet and on the heels, causing pain, but the edge clings him behind the bed and does not give a person to return to it. At night, the prisoner is unable to turn, but in winter, a short blanket does not cover legs.

Another worst form of this torture is called "crawling with a wooden clamp." The guards put on the claw on a person and order him to crawl along the concrete floor. If he stops, he is beaten on his back by a police baton. An hour later, the fingers, nails on the legs and knees are very bleeding, while the back is covered with wounds from shocks.

A terrible wild execution that came from the east.

The essence of this execution was that the man was put on his stomach, one sat down at him, so as not to let him move, the other kept him for her neck. A person was inserted into the rear pass the stake, which was then driven by a beater; Then she was chopped into the ground. The severity of the body was forced to login all deeper and finally he went under the arm or between the ribs.

The man was sitting in a very cold room, tied him, so that he could not move his head, and in full darkness to his forehead very slowly drilled with cold water. A few days later the person frozen either went crazy.

This tool tool was widely used by the executioners of the Spanish Inquisition and was the chair made of iron, to which the prisoner was sitting, and the legs concluded in the pads attached to the legs of the chair. When he turned out to be in such a completely helpless position, it was terrible under his feet; With hot coal, so that the legs began to slowly roast, and in order to extend the suffering of the poor feet, the legs from time to time were watered with oil.

Another version of the Spanish chair was often used, which is a metal throne, to which they tied the sacrifice and bred fire under the seat, frowning the buttocks. The famous poisoner of La Vuazen was subjected to torture on such a chair during the famous poisoning case in France.

Torture of St. Lawrence on the Gridiron.

This type of torture is often mentioned in the lives of saints - real and fictional, but there is no evidence that Gridiron "lived" to the Middle Ages and had at least a small walking in Europe. It is usually described as an ordinary metal grille 6 feet in length and two and a half - width, installed horizontally on legs, to be able to dilute under it a fire. Sometimes the gridiron was made in the form of a sill to be able to resort to the combined torture.

The holy Lawrence was tortured on a similar lattice.

This torture was resorted very rarely. First, it was easy to kill the interrogated, secondly, there was a lot of simpler, but no less brutal tortures.

The pectoral in ancient times was called the breastplate decoration in the form of a paired carved gold or silver bowl, often mowed with precious stones. She was put on, as a modern bra, and was attached to chains. At a mockery analogy with this decoration, a raw torture gun was called, applied by Venetian Inquisition.

In 1985, the Pectoral was distilled and taking it with forceps, put on the chest of the hide and kept until it was confirmed. If the accused persevened, the executioners gave the pectoral newly cold and continued interrogation.

Very often after this barbaric torture on the site of the woman's breasts, charred torn holes remained.

This apparent harmless effect was a terrible torture. With prolonged tickling, man rises so much nervous conductivityThat even the easiest touch caused at first twigs, laughter, and then crossed in a terrible pain. If such torture continued for quite a long time, after some time the respiratory muscles were arisible and, in the end, the trembling died from choking.

With the best simple version Torture interrogated tested sensitive places either simply with hands or hair brushes, brushes. Hard bird feathers enjoyed popularity. Usually tickled under mouses, heels, nipples, inguinal folds, genitals, women also under the breasts.

In addition, torture was often straamed using animals that lick any life with the heels of the questioned. Very often used the goat, because it is very tough language adapted for the eating herbs, caused very strong irritation.

There was also a kind of torture tickling with the help of a beetle, most common in India. With her, a small bug was put on the head of the penis man or on the nipple woman and covered the half shell of the walnut. After some time, the ticking caused by the movement of the legs of the insect in a living body became so intolerable that the interrogated confess to anything ...

These tubular metal ticks "Crocodile" have grown hot and used to tear the penis torture. Initially, several caressing movements (often produced women), or a tight dressing was achieved by a resistant solid erection and then torture began

These gear iron tips slowly crushed the testicles of the interrogated. Something similar was widely used in Stalin's and fascist prisons.

In fact, this is not torture, but an African rite, but, in my opinion, it is very cruel. Girls from 3-6 years old without anesthesia simply scraped outdoor genitals. Thus, the girl did not lose the ability to have children, but forever lost opportunities to experience sexual desire and pleasure. This rite is done "for the benefit of" women so that they have never had a temptation to change her husband ...

Part of the image engraved on Stors Hammers. The illustration shows a man lying on his stomach, an executor is standing over him, breaking the back of a man with an unusual weapon.

One of the most ancient torture, during which the victim was tied to face down and opened his back, the ribs climbed the spine and spread out the wings. In the Scandinavian legends, it is argued that during such an execution of the victim's wounds sprinkled with salt.

Many historians argue that this torture was used by the pagans in relation to Christians, others are confident that in such a way, spouses appeared in treason, and the third argue that the bloody eagle is just a terrible legend.

In order to best fulfill the procedure for this torture, the accused was located on one of the species of the hole or on a special large table with a rising middle part. After the victim's hands and feet were tied to the edges of the table, the executioner started to work in one of several ways. One of these methods was that the victim was forced using a funnel to swallow a large number of Waters, then beat on the inflated and abnown belly. Another form provided for the premises in the sacrifice of the rag tube, according to which water was slowly poured, which led to inflating and suffocation of the victim.

If this was not enough, the tube was pulled out, causing internal damage, and then inserted again and the process was repeated. Sometimes used torture with cold water. In this case, the accused clock lay on the table naked under the jet of icy water. It is interesting to note that this type of torment was considered as light, and the recognition obtained by this method, the court accepted how voluntary and these defendants without the use of torture. Most often, these torture was used by the Spanish Inquisition in order to beat recognition from heretics and witches.

Back in the XIX and early twentieth century, the execution was considered the preferred punishment compared with the prison, because the presence was in the conclusion turned out to be slow kidding. Finding in prison was paid for relatives, and they themselves often asked for the perpetrator to be killed.
In prisons were not kept, too expensive. If the relatives had money, they could take their loved ones (usually he was sitting in the earthen hole). But to afford it was capable of a miser of society.
Because the main way of punishment for minor crimes (theft, insults of the official, etc.) were pads. The most common type of pad - "Kanga" (or "Jia"). It was used very widely, since I did not require a prison from the state, and also prevented the run.
It is sometimes for the next reduction of punishment into this cervical shoe, several prisoners were shown. But in this case, the fantastic of the criminal had relatives or compassionals.

Every judge considered his duty to invent his own violence over criminals and prisoners. The most common were: the sinking of the foot (first sawed one foot, which fell a second time by the recuridation of the other), the removal of the knee cups, slicing the nose, cutting the ears, branding.
In an effort to lose the punishment, the judges invented the penalty, which was called "to carry out five types of punishment." The criminal followed: branding, cut off hands or feet, score sticks to death, and put the head on the market for everyone to review.

In the tradition of China, the behead was considered a more severe shape of the execution than suffocation, despite the fact that prolonged torment is characteristic.
The Chinese believed that the body of a person is a gift of his parents, and therefore return to the non-existent body is extremely inconspicuous towards the ancestors. Therefore, at the request of relatives, and more often for a bribe, other types of executions were used.

Removal. The criminal was tied to the post, around the neck wrapped the rope, the ends from which were in the hands of the executioner. They slowly twist the rope with special sticks, gradually removing the convicted one.
The damage could last for a very long time, since the executioners weakened the rope and gave an almost strangled victim to make several convulsive sighs, and then again tightened the loop.

Cell, or "standing pads" (Li-Jia) - the device for this execution is a cervical block, which was reinforced on top of the bamboo or wooden poles coheshed into a cell, at a height of about 2 meters. The condemned was placed in a cage, and under his feet put bricks or tiles, to then clean them slowly.
The executioner cleaned bricks, and the man hung with the neck, clamped the block, which he began to choke him, could last for months, until all the stands were removed.

Lin-Chi - "death from thousands of cuts" or "sea pussy bites" is the most terrible execution by cutting off the body of the victim of small pieces for a long period of time.
Such a penalty followed the state treason and the otceubency. Lin-Chi in order to intimidate in public places With a large argument of zooak.

For crimes, calarated by the death penalty, and other serious offenses, existed 6 classes of sentences. The first was called Lin-Chi. This car was applied in relation to traitors, fatherlybits, murders of brothers, husbands, uncle and mentors.
The criminal was tied to the cross and cut or 120, or 72, or 36, or on 24 parts. In the presence of mitigating circumstances, his body in the sign of imperial grace was cut only on 8 pieces.
On 24 pieces of the criminal were cut as follows: 1 and 2 blows are cut off eyebrows; 3 and 4 - shoulders; 5 and 6 - chest glands; 7 and 8 - muscles of hands between brush and elbow; 9 and 10 - the muscles of the hands between the elbow and shoulder; 11 and 12 - flesh with hips; 13 and 14 - feet caviar; 15 - a blow pierced the heart; 16 - cut off her head; 17 and 18 - hand brushes; 19 and 20 - the remaining parts of the hands; 21 and 22 - feet; 23 and 24 - legs. On 8 pieces were cut as follows: 1 and 2 strucks were cut off her eyebrows; 3 and 4 - shoulders; 5 and 6 - breast glands; 7 - a blow pierced the heart; 8 - cut off the head.

But there was a way to avoid these monstrous species of execution - for a big bribe. For a very big bribe, the jailer could give a criminal, waiting for death in the earthenware, a knife or even poison. But it is clear that such expenses could afford a few.