Impalement
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Impalement, as a method of torture and execution, is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by the complete or partial perforation of the torso. It was pa
Engraving by Justus Lipsius of a vertical impalement
Mural on the ceiling of Avudaiyarkoil at Pudukottai District, Tamil Nadu, India showing the impalement scene.
Original in-image text from 1741 edition of Tournefort: "The Gaunche, a sort of punishment in use among the Turks."
"A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows," by William Blake. Originally published in Stedman's Narrative.
Death by sawing
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Death by sawing is the act of sawing or cutting a living person in half, either sagittally, or transversely.
Impalement
…Rizzo, sought to defy the ban, but his ship was hit by a cannonball. He and his crew were picked up from the waters, the crew members to be beheaded (or sawn asunder according to Niccolò Barbaro), whereas Rizzo was impaled. In the early days of the siege in May 1453, contingents of the Ottoman army made mop-up…
Sawing of three men, from a 15th-century print
An artistic rendering of the execution of Bhai Mati Das by the Mughals. This image is from a Sikh Ajaibghar near the towns of Mohali and Sirhind in Punjab, India.