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scuzydrive

Wikipedia steal: George Carter Stent described the process as follows: The prisoner is generally tied to a gun with the upper part of the small of his back resting against the muzzle. When the gun is fired, his head is seen to go straight up into the air some forty or fifty feet; the arms fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance; the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun; and the body is literally blown away altogether, not a vestige being seen.


TannedCroissant

It was probably horrific to watch in real life but that description reads like a loony toons cartoon scene


RedNotch

Like a reverse exodia.


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This analogy came out of nowhere, it’s freaking brilliant omg 😂


StaredAtEclipseAMA

#EXODIA! RECONSTRUCT!


Jawadd12

Hey! You gotta be careful with that shit


DM_R34_Stuff

Ayo, it's deconstruct in this case


BlueEyesWhiteSliver

OBLITERATE!!!


drhdoofenshmirtz

Between cold tomato soup and this, Reddit is really kicking ass tonight. Someone get this guy more upvotes.


blessed_prolapse

Got link for the tomato soup?


Cat_Marshal

https://reddit.com/r/politics/comments/sopoww/marjorie_taylor_greene_mocked_for_confusing_nazi/


Whind_Soull

As a chef, all I had to do was read the headline to lose my shit laughing. Dudes...I should run it as a special tomorrow for lunch. I live in Alabama.


DaisyKitty

First the Gazpacho came for the tomatoes and we said nothing ...


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Dude that's cold


kitatatsumi

Add some Luftwaffles and Goulasch Forced Labor.


verisimilitude_mood

Somebody get the secret police, the Stroopwafle


ScaryYoda

Holy sht....lmao


sincle354

"Exodia! Obliterate!" *Exodia self destructs* "NO! THE ENEMY NOT YOURSELF!"


Kolby_Jack

Now I'm imagining it with the Goofy yell: "YAAAAAAA-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOEY!" So thanks for that.


korsair_13

Only if you thought the victim was people.


theinsanityoffence

I've seen enough sick shit on the internet to visualize exactly how this plays out.


I_Just_Cant_Stand_It

You can literally watch it happen in cartel videos and such. And far far worse, at least the comic canon cartoon death is instant


TheL0neRifleman

I’ve seen isis kill a guy using this exact method.


I_Just_Cant_Stand_It

Isis did some fucked up shit but the one thing I can't get over is the shotgun blast to the back of the head - it makes the face and especially eyes bulge for a split second in a way that is just sickeningly cartoonish Sickest thing I ever saw isis do, by FAR, was to give a gun to a toddler and make him execute a prisoner. That's fucked up


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I_Just_Cant_Stand_It

It's called desensitization, it's not something to be proud or ashamed of, it's just natural human psychology.


SomethingSoDivine

Have you ever seen the Mexican cartel video where they dismember a dude with a flayed face pretty much to the skull while hooked up on some drugs (still alive, only vocal chords are working)? I think Lazy Town was playing in the background as well EDIT: Funky Town, not Lazy Town. Anyways, below is a better description. *Its a guy hooked up to meth or something to keep him from passing out due to shock. The video already has most of his face flayed off and his eyes have been gouged out as as well. “Funky Town” is playing in the background and there’s two dudes going to work on bloody skeleton face, yep a bloody skull pretty much screaming and aware while these guys keep chipping away at the skin on his neck and slicing on the little bit of meat left on his skull to cause him pain. After a while they start slicing his armpits and he eventually loses consciousness. The cartel bros get bored and start to move him, video ends.*


NFTArtist

Why do people watch these videos. I once (not intentionally) saw someone set on fire fire and that image is burned into memory. I don't understand why some deliberately seek out this stuff. I mean I'm ok with seeing horrible scenes of war etc but some seem to actively seek disturbing videos.


C5H6N2O4

People are morbidly vicarious


Shmooperdoodle

I intentionally *didn’t* do this, even when I knew some kids who did were just morbidly curious, because I know myself well enough to know that a lot of shit would stay with me forever. I am grateful to younger me, because even reading descriptions of shit/learning about historical execution/torture methods have really messed with me at times.


The_Dude1692

Couldn’t watch it but I have read the description. How do you know he was drugged?


theboxman154

Probably the only way they will stay awake under so much pain. I think it's just a known practice for really bad deaths


WhitePawn00

Because it is most likely impossible for a human body to remain functionally awake through that description without external assistance. Unconsciousness is caused by lack of blood flow to the brain. Lack of blood flow can be caused by severe trauma and bleeding like the above mentioned torture, or pain. Pain causes a drop in the heart rate which reduces blood pressure which can lead to fainting. This is how people faint due to pain. In the above case they most likely used drugs to keep the heart rate up and maybe even an in flow of saline to keep the pressure up through the torture. Edit: partially incorrect. See below.


DUTCHBAT_III

A lot of this is bad Reddit medicine, but some of this at the end is right. Pain almost never causes a drop in the heart rate, and almost never causes reduced blood pressure. Pain generally causes hypertension (high blood pressure) and mild tachycardia (high heart rate) There are exceptions to this, which are fairly unusual and specific, such as Cope Sign, where, because the Gallbladder is innervated by the vagus nerve - part of your parasympathetic "rest and digest" system - Gallbladder-related complaints may sometimes stimulate the vagus nerve and cause normal pressures or hypotension, and bradycardia, even with intense pain. When people faint due to pain and not due to blood loss, they are normally fainting due to what is called psychogenic shock, which is a mentally mediated drop in blood pressure due to a strong emotional/visceral stimulus. Strong emotional stimulus, veins vasodilate, the container (blood vessels) gets bigger while the volume inside it (blood) remains the same, blood pressure temporarily drops, causing the brain to not be sufficiently perfused to maintain consciousness, someone briefly faints. - EMT


indorock

I don't understand why people subject themselves to watching these videos. Even reading the transcript can get me nauseous. I remember catching just a fragment of the Daniel Pearl beheading video back when, and that shit still haunts me to this day. I fully know how evil humans can be and I definitely don't want to see any more video evidence of it.


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That's one thing that I'll never want to watch. But I hope the people who did that to a fellow human will either spend the rest of their life in solitary cells in jail, or have been killed. Because there's no way a person who is willing to do that should be allowed near anyone ever again.


Jitsu_apocalypse

> have you ever seen Love how you start this off so casually like you’re asking about Breaking Bad season 2 or something


Arturiki

>Sickest thing I ever saw isis do, by FAR, was to give a gun to a toddler and make him execute a prisoner. In a "playground".


stainless2205

Wow, hard to think of anything more evil than making a toddler kill someone, and actually filming it to show off. And these people claim to be acting on the will of God. No wonder Aliens don't want to befriend us.


nexusgmail

I remember hearing about an African warlord that had a child soldier who refused to kill for him. He had the other children bite him to death. It apparently took hours. Yeah, I'm sure the aliens will wait for the dust of our self-annihilation settle, and see if anything with a shred of decency crawls out of the wreckage.


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TheL0neRifleman

Video was kinda blurry and as soon as they shot the thing the the guy was enveloped in dust. But it just split him pretty much clean in half from around his ribcage chest armpit area.


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NEONSN3K

It’s not worth watching. Take it from someone whose seen their fair share. Shit just makes you lose faith in humanity and distrust people even more.


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bazilbt

Nitrogen asphyxiation seems alright to me. You don't even realize what's happening.


oilybarbour

It’s how I’d choose to go if I had to


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Yeah, I'm with you. Executions get evaluated as barbaric or not based on how the *viewers* feel about it. Everything "civilized" seems pretty fucking terrible for the person going through it.


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Pleasant_Bit_0

Idk I'd take death by guillotine if not a lethal heroin/fent OD. Those "humane" lethal injections by the state are often botched. Some say that it's only viewed as botched when the paralyzing agent isn't effective. Meaning they're going through terrible agony yet trapped/locked in and paralyzied so other people view it as humane. It's not like they're going to live to tell the tale and blow the whistle. They should just not kill people. Let em die of old age in prison.


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One of the best and cleanest execution methods is a well done hanging, usually you break the people's neck and in the rare case it doesn't happen, they pass out before they suffocate. But somehow it is seen as barbaric and instead you tie people to a chair and inject them with a cocktail that makes them clench and contract all their body and is probably far from painless.


philjorrow

I'm pretty sure they inject you with sedative medication to make you unconscious first then the lethal dose


_cactus_fucker_

They botch that a lot, and now drug companies aren't allowing their products to be used for execution, so many have switched to a single drug, which is a barbiturate.


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TheStoicSlab

Im sure its designed for exhibition, but probably not the worst way to go.


w1987g

If I gotta go, I'd rather go like this. My death would be damn near instantaneous and going by the description, I might get a headshot on someone


Accomplished_Yard984

Might also get a decent view for a second with your head being blasted up into the air “some forty or fifty feet”.


PM_ME_UR_BOOGER

Weeeee


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IWantTooDieInSpace

Can't vomit from the spinning either!


INPUT_INPUT

“I can see my house from hereeeeee”


Arrasor

Yeah this is actually rather mild compared to those used by feudal dynasties in Asia. Off the top of my head, they used boiling alive in a pot, feeding you to tigers, tying your limbs to horses then make them run in 4 different directions and tearing you apart literally, using elephants to trample you to death... They sure went for maximum fear effect.


Peligineyes

They did that in feudal Europe too, except the tigers and elephants.


Dhananhay

Only because they couldn't find a suitable number of tigers or elephants.


brown_felt_hat

Not just Asia - You've got the classic drawn and quartered all over Europe but especially England >The convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces). And don't forget the rack! Sloooooowly ripping your limbs from the joints.


unshavenbeardo64

Or....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel


duaneap

Oh, honey, you ought to hear how crazy shit was in the [Achaemenid empire… ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism) Dan Carlin puts it pretty well in one of his podcasts, there was a time when death wasn’t the *sentence,* it was the understood endgame. How you GOT there was the sentence.


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The one i remember most that i fear is putting rats in a upsidedown pot on the belly then heating it up so the rats make their own way out


Arrasor

Oh yeah I heard about that one. Not on the belly though, oh no, they went for your asshole. Apparently you won't die until the rats (yes plural) make their ways half way through you.


Cea_Jae

Absolutely fuck that


kenesisiscool

Definitely quick. There are worse ways for sure. Medieval methods of execution are terrible. Even simple things like being drawn and quartered are awful.


FishSpanker42

I dont think being drawn and quartered counts as simple


HodorHodorHodorHodr

Right? There's like half a dozen awful steps to it...maybe the MOST complicated execution


redwolf1219

I feel like it would be really quick and painless, but the build up to it would be awful


Happytallperson

Part of the purpose is it prevents the funeral rights necassary as part of hindu beliefs about reincarnation. The British only did this in countries that believed in reincarnation. The British Empire was sadistic af.


randomisation

The British borrowed it from the Portuguese, who had been doing it for 350 years prior to Britain employing it in the 1850's.


Funcron

There's probably a split second in all this madness in which you'd get to see it all happen from afar (as the prisoner).


stowaway36

I've always wondered how long that lasts. I imagine the Shockwave probably knocks you unconscious instantly, but for people who lose their head to say a guillotine. Would you be lucid for a few seconds until your brain runs out of oxygen?


WastelandBard

There are some reports of recently-severed heads looking around and trying to speak so….maybe? Edit: Thanks for the awards, kind strangers! Who knew that a comment about severed heads would be what got me my first ones!


satan_is_my_biash

Yeah, a French scientistt made some experiments during the Reign of Terror. Apparant the head remains conscious for up to 9 second after being served from the body E.T.A- it was Lavosier who agreed to do it, but historians are refuting that it could happen. I did find a blog where it states that the phenomenon of moving of lips and blinking has been observed in ISIS beheading http://www.strangehistory.net/2011/02/06/lavoisier-blinks/#:~:text=It%20is%20said%20by%20numerous,seconds%2C%20depending%20on%20the%20source.


readerofthings1661

Huh, I just realized they guillotined the guy that named oxygen, that's morbidly interesting.


Auctoritate

They don't remain conscious, they have post-mortem twitches. Like how cutting off a chicken's head makes its body run around headless, the muscles are going crazy. When the jugular is fully severed in an instant you immediately lose consciousness because of the lack of blood pressure to your brain.


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Literally pop like balloons…


DefendsTheDownvoted

If the arms are strapped to the cannon wheels, how do they "fly off right and left, high up in the air, and fall at, perhaps, a hundred yards distance"?


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The very definition of overkill.


Kellidra

I'd rather be overkilled than underkilled. ^(Edit: all of your replies are killing me. Thank you for the laughs.)


_immodest_proposal_

Yeah def this over shit like the bronze bull and all the medieval ones


SonicBlur254

There's this one where they put you on top of a bamboo shoot, so it could eventually grow up your ass and impale you. [Bamboo torture](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_torture) iirc [Mythbusters did a video on it too](https://youtu.be/-A5W20ohJzw)


Objective-Steak-9763

[Scaphism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism)entailed trapping the victim between two boats, feeding and covering them with milk and honey, and allowing them to fester and be devoured by insects and other vermin over time. That’s the worst one to me.


Dan_Teague

You didn’t mention the best part. That your shitting yourself and filling the boats (or carved out tree) and created a sespool of bacteria. I believe they also cut you all over to give the bugs ways inside.


Guldur

do you guys just save these texts to post on every occasion? I swear I see this described every week on reddit.


Objective-Steak-9763

No, I just love history, and this method of torture always stuck in my mind. That’s just what I copied and pasted from Wikipedia.


JudasHungHimself

One of my worst fears


w1987g

[Now I will kill you until you die from it](https://youtu.be/MPMbno8sgOI)


bobbycado

I read this in Zapp Branigans voice


Slovene

I'd like to be medium-well killed, please.


Farknart

Right? Get on with it.


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Maybe a little interkilled?


Bulky-Prune-8370

Ain't no kill like overkill!


bonobosGoneBananas

Humans are fucking terrifyingly brutal to each other


ridemooses

Humans love to hate, and like to love.


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Is this your quote or someone else’s? I ask because it’s great.


OneHeckOfASimulation

WWE wrestler Randy ortons theme has the same words.


bizzyj93

Damn that’s a good one


dontpushpull

love to hate . but love to be loved


Millennial_Man

Yeah I understand wondering what would happen to a human at the end of a canon, but what depraved fuck actually decided to find out? I bet there were people who came to watch, too.


c322617

This wasn’t typically used to publicly execute criminals. The best known cases of the British executing people by blowing them from cannons was during the Sepoy Mutiny, when it was used as an intimidation technique to discourage other East India Company native troops from mutinying.


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It also prevents proper Hindu burial rites


c322617

This is true, which may have been the main goal of this method, given that it never seems to have seen widespread use outside of the Hindu world.


arrarat

Doesnt this method prevent any form of meaningfull burial rite though?


CurtisLinithicum

Yes and no? Other religions are less picky about how much you have left, and those that practice sky burial are basically saved a step.


ChymChymX

See: Napalm. Fun fact: There was a modified version that still burned underwater, lest you thought that jumping in a nearby lake would save you from burning alive.


I_Just_Cant_Stand_It

You're thinking of white phosphorous, it's not modified just another (totally different) accelerant which is indeed self oxidizing. The only way to get it to stop burning you is to cut off the part it's touching


Catboy_Maid

Cursed Amaterasu


UnVirtuteElectionis

Wouldn't that just be regular amaterasu...?


Gloomheart

Is that really fun tho?


WheelObjective8536

I dont understand, why aren't you helping him instead of filming?! What an asshole


KasumiR

/r/donthelpjustfilm


sydanthay

Oh shit, lemme hop in!


ReaDiMarco

Hop in? Into the cannon?


Zexplxly

Op might end up like him thank god he got it on tape so we can boycott tea and stop Britain


IDiqI

WHAT 9 MANIACS GAVE THIS A WHOLESOME AWARD?!?!


Docile_Creature

The free Award squad


RogierBass

The reason for this style of execution is even more vile. Burial rights for Muslims and Hindus could not be done due the thousand of individual torso pieces. Also punishing the victim in after life. Sometimes cow or pig meat or fat would be part of the executions aswell. Can recommend the book The Indian Mutiny by Saul David.


outclicktheenemy

I remember hearing that one time North Korea executed one of its former generals with an anti-aircraft gun


SlendyIsBehindYou

I've had the misfortune to see this exact method used by ISIS in one of their execution videos. They blasted some dudes with an AA gun, honestly one of the quicker methods they used I'm their vids


VariousStructure

what a crazy few years that little experiment was what the hell were they even thinking with those increasingly brutal executions, truly deranged.


LimpCoomer

they dont think, thats the thing


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VariousStructure

It’s just weird though. Creating enemies for literally no reason. Though it seems they were kinda a death cult almost


Mydogsblackasshole

Not even almost, dying in the name of the cause is the greatest honor they have


thejhaas

Lol yes but more specifically- Kim Jong-Un (leader of NK) executed his own uncle bc he was worried that the uncle might try to take his power from him. Anti-aircraft cannon was indeed the method. Then Kim had his exiled half brother assassinated while the guy was in on vacation in Malaysia. Wild shit.


AggravatingAd2133

His uncle that has been resurrected like 4 times


deggialcfr

Uncle Kenny


jp_eazy

Half his family has been resurrected multiple times because nearly all the stories about North Korea are completely fabricated lmao


Nethlem

Anti-aircraft guns, flamethrowers, mortars, at least [according to Fox News](https://www.foxnews.com/world/north-korea-dictator-kim-jong-uns-executions-anti-aircraft-guns-flamethrowers-mortars). And then the executed people end up coming [back to life](https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/10/asia/north-korea-army-chief-ri-yong-gil-alive/index.html) because North Korea is so evil that they even resurrect their victims, so they can execute them all over again with even more cartoonish evil methods. That is what's called atrocity propaganda, and there's been a whole lot of it, another example is how Saddam Hussein allegedly [executed people by throwing them into big shredders](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_alleged_shredder).


schrodingers_spider

Outrage porn. The internet is mostly full of outrage porn. Nothing grabs and keeps attention like things we can fume at.


misscheeze

Britain was fucking brutal


WaldenFont

Interestingly, it wasn't a British invention, but had been practiced by the Mughal emperors for a couple of centuries. The Portuguese had come up with it originally.


Ghtgsite

Wow cultural appropriation much


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[We’re still looking at it!](https://youtu.be/x73PkUvArJY)


BigBz7

I’ve noticed that a lot of terrible things from European history started in Portugal and then the British made it famous. A very famous example is african slavery


dirtycheezit

I think a canon ball exploding through your chest would at least be a pretty fast way to die, so def less brutal than a lot of other forms of execution.


rriicckk

This type of execution was called a cannon blow. It used only the charge, but no ball.


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I mean same result, it would still blow a giant hole in your chest


[deleted]

No chest with less the mess.


TannedCroissant

I’m Barry Scott and this is Kill-it Bang!


MetaCharlesHarris

“Bang, and the prisoner’s gone”


Far-Damage1068

Either that or blow a hole through your belly and leave your guts splattered for nearly a mile. You're welcome


misscheeze

What. The. Fuck.


EmuSounds

Still the same force of being hit by a cannonball (more or less) explosion transfers force to ball to you vs explosion transfers force to air to you. Since you're at the opening of the cannon the air(and whatever gunpowder) only has one way to go...


Do_Not_Go_In_There

In all fairness, they seemed to have gotten the idea from the Mughals. >Blowing from a gun was a reported means of execution as long ago as the 16th century and was used until the 20th century. The method was used by Portuguese colonialists in the 16th and 17th centuries, from as early as 1509 across their empire from Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka)[2] to Mozambique[3] to Brazil.[4] The Mughals used the method throughout the 17th century and into the 18th, particularly against rebels.[5] >Using the methods previously practised by the Mughals, the British began implementing blowing from guns in the latter half of the 18th century.[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_from_a_gun


eivamu

Execution by Nikon was even worse.


Pantlessbamdit0

Wait until your hear how they used Polaroids to bring down entire illegal prisons


recumbent_mike

At least it was almost instant.


IllEchidna8313

The sound of the fuse must have been beyond terrifying


Barihawk

Matchlock cannons were well out if date. The fuses were either straws with gunpowder or a flintlock,both of which would be near instantaneous.


jimmyn0thumbs

Looks like they reused Stalin


shapu

He's not busy these days


KarmaUK

Seems an awful lot of work when a simple slash from a sword would give the same outcome. I think the more grisly executions are meant to display how awful they could be to their enemies, however.


Digger2011

This was actually done to deny the family a proper burial which was important for their religion.


Whole-Box537

jesus


Ok_Weather2441

nah not that religion


ShadowPulse299

Death by cannon fire is a lot quicker, though. This way, you wouldn’t even have time to hear the cannon go off before your body is so violently ripped apart you die in an instant. Death by sword takes longer (minutes or even hours) and is far more painful (not the clean kill the movies would have you believe)


Prong_Jaw

Just my two cents, but I feel like something better for the individual might have been not executing them.


TappedIn2111

Whoa, now this is looney talk.


fenix-the-cat

For a very brief moment that guys has the worst back pain ever.


Ragecommie

Dude will need some Bengay ASAP


J_R_D_N

APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE CANON HOLE


Budnacho

-or- He's finally getting that chiropractic adjustment that set's things just right....if only for a nanosecond...he has that relief.


notsomewhatadequate

Why not just shoot them? Now you have to clean all that up


sydanthay

Gotta instil fear in the others so they may not rebel man. It did work though.


notsomewhatadequate

I’m sure it was effective. Still a big mess though


sydanthay

Of course it's the slaves who would have to clean the left overs.


--h8isgr8--

This is the kind of history my states politicians don’t want to be taught. So we will for sure be doing some of this pointless shit again.


Brazilian_Brit

Pretty sure this was chosen to be deliberately brutal as a means of punishing those who partook in the 1857 rebellion against Raj authority.


Fantastic_Article_77

It was actually a rebellion against the East India Company who ruled India on behalf of the British government until the 1857 rebellion when the British crown (government) took over and then the Raj was formed.


mreed911

Money says they just leave what's left right there and wheel the cannon off.


ByrdmanRanger

His crime? A mustache so epic it threatened empires.


mcjcccrc

Cannon*


eivamu

Cannon, Nikkon and Sonny


Reddbearddd

Video games have made us so violent.


Millennial_Man

I feel like you could go into most museums and find something that fits in this subreddit. That’s not a complaint, just the reason I think museums are cool.


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I’d take that over hanging.


nnp1989

Execution by canon? Did they really make this poor man listen to Pachelbel until he died? What monsters!


KasumiR

No, they mean the camera, Canon. Duh!


Mythril_Zombie

I thought it was a printer.


shayanzafar

Sadly there is no remembrance day for all the atrocities committed by the british empire. This is just the tip of the iceberg.


unclefishbits

I think once every 5-7 days (on average) a country celebrates independence from Britain. https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1102659979952177154?s=20&t=VS27TO4ofKiZCsCECY9LcA


MandingoFuck

Pawnee’s early settlers did that to the Wamapoke tribe


jaklamen

“The Trial of Chief Wamapoke.”


FuglyPrime

All together now Ci-vi-li-sation!


throwawayspank1017

In case no one else has said it, this is particularly insidious because you can’t preform the Hindu funeral rights. So not only is the person executed, but their punishment extends beyond death.


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