About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 143. Chapters: Asphyxia, Bestiarii, Blood eagle, Blowing from a gun, Brazen bull, Breaking wheel, Cement shoes, Colombian necktie, Crucifixion, Crushing (execution), Damnatio ad bestias, Death by boiling, Death by burning, Death by sawing, Death flights, Decapitation, Defenestration, Disembowelment, Dismemberment, Drowning, Electric chair, Execution by elephant, Execution by firing squad, Execution by shooting, Execution van, Falling (execution), Flaying, Forced suicide, Fustuarium, Garrote, Gas chamber, Genickschussanlage, Gibbeting, Guillotine, Halifax Gibbet, Hanged, drawn and quartered, Hanging, Immurement, Impalement, Ishikozume, Keelhauling, Lethal injection, List of methods of capital punishment, List of people hanged, drawn and quartered, Maiden (beheading), Marooning, Mazzatello, Necklacing, Nine familial exterminations, Nitrogen asphyxiation, Poison, Premature burial, Republican marriage, Scaphism, Slow slicing, Snake pit, Starvation, Stoning. Excerpt: Crucifixion is a method of deliberately slow and painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead. It is principally known from antiquity, but remains in occasional use in some countries. Crucifixion was used among the Seleucids, Carthaginians, and Romans from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD. In the year 337, Emperor Constantine I abolished it in the Roman Empire out of veneration for Jesus Christ, the most famous example of crucifixion. It was also used as a form of execution in Japan for criminals, inflicted also on some Christians. A crucifix (an image of Christ crucified on a cross) is the main religious symbol for Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches, but most Protestant and Oriental Orthodox churches prefer to use a cross without the figure (the "corpus" Latin for "body")...
