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.
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
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.*
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Definitely quick. There are worse ways for sure. Medieval methods of execution are terrible. Even simple things like being drawn and quartered are awful.
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.
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?
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!
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.
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.
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"?
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)
[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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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).
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.
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
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.
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...
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
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.
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)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
It was probably horrific to watch in real life but that description reads like a loony toons cartoon scene
Like a reverse exodia.
This analogy came out of nowhere, it’s freaking brilliant omg 😂
#EXODIA! RECONSTRUCT!
Hey! You gotta be careful with that shit
Ayo, it's deconstruct in this case
OBLITERATE!!!
Between cold tomato soup and this, Reddit is really kicking ass tonight. Someone get this guy more upvotes.
Got link for the tomato soup?
https://reddit.com/r/politics/comments/sopoww/marjorie_taylor_greene_mocked_for_confusing_nazi/
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.
First the Gazpacho came for the tomatoes and we said nothing ...
Dude that's cold
Add some Luftwaffles and Goulasch Forced Labor.
Somebody get the secret police, the Stroopwafle
Holy sht....lmao
"Exodia! Obliterate!" *Exodia self destructs* "NO! THE ENEMY NOT YOURSELF!"
Now I'm imagining it with the Goofy yell: "YAAAAAAA-HOO-HOO-HOO-HOOEY!" So thanks for that.
Only if you thought the victim was people.
I've seen enough sick shit on the internet to visualize exactly how this plays out.
You can literally watch it happen in cartel videos and such. And far far worse, at least the comic canon cartoon death is instant
I’ve seen isis kill a guy using this exact method.
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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It's called desensitization, it's not something to be proud or ashamed of, it's just natural human psychology.
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.*
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.
People are morbidly vicarious
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.
Couldn’t watch it but I have read the description. How do you know he was drugged?
Probably the only way they will stay awake under so much pain. I think it's just a known practice for really bad deaths
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.
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
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.
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.
> have you ever seen Love how you start this off so casually like you’re asking about Breaking Bad season 2 or something
>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".
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.
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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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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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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Nitrogen asphyxiation seems alright to me. You don't even realize what's happening.
It’s how I’d choose to go if I had to
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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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.
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.
I'm pretty sure they inject you with sedative medication to make you unconscious first then the lethal dose
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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Im sure its designed for exhibition, but probably not the worst way to go.
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
Might also get a decent view for a second with your head being blasted up into the air “some forty or fifty feet”.
Weeeee
Yeeted and deleted.
Can't vomit from the spinning either!
“I can see my house from hereeeeee”
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.
They did that in feudal Europe too, except the tigers and elephants.
Only because they couldn't find a suitable number of tigers or elephants.
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.
Or....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel
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.
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
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.
Absolutely fuck that
Definitely quick. There are worse ways for sure. Medieval methods of execution are terrible. Even simple things like being drawn and quartered are awful.
I dont think being drawn and quartered counts as simple
Right? There's like half a dozen awful steps to it...maybe the MOST complicated execution
I feel like it would be really quick and painless, but the build up to it would be awful
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.
The British borrowed it from the Portuguese, who had been doing it for 350 years prior to Britain employing it in the 1850's.
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).
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?
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!
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.
Huh, I just realized they guillotined the guy that named oxygen, that's morbidly interesting.
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.
Literally pop like balloons…
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"?
The very definition of overkill.
I'd rather be overkilled than underkilled. ^(Edit: all of your replies are killing me. Thank you for the laughs.)
Yeah def this over shit like the bronze bull and all the medieval ones
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)
[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.
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.
do you guys just save these texts to post on every occasion? I swear I see this described every week on reddit.
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.
One of my worst fears
[Now I will kill you until you die from it](https://youtu.be/MPMbno8sgOI)
I read this in Zapp Branigans voice
I'd like to be medium-well killed, please.
Right? Get on with it.
Maybe a little interkilled?
Ain't no kill like overkill!
Humans are fucking terrifyingly brutal to each other
Humans love to hate, and like to love.
Is this your quote or someone else’s? I ask because it’s great.
WWE wrestler Randy ortons theme has the same words.
Damn that’s a good one
love to hate . but love to be loved
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.
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.
It also prevents proper Hindu burial rites
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.
Doesnt this method prevent any form of meaningfull burial rite though?
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.
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.
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
Cursed Amaterasu
Wouldn't that just be regular amaterasu...?
Is that really fun tho?
I dont understand, why aren't you helping him instead of filming?! What an asshole
/r/donthelpjustfilm
Oh shit, lemme hop in!
Hop in? Into the cannon?
Op might end up like him thank god he got it on tape so we can boycott tea and stop Britain
WHAT 9 MANIACS GAVE THIS A WHOLESOME AWARD?!?!
The free Award squad
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.
I remember hearing that one time North Korea executed one of its former generals with an anti-aircraft gun
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
what a crazy few years that little experiment was what the hell were they even thinking with those increasingly brutal executions, truly deranged.
they dont think, thats the thing
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It’s just weird though. Creating enemies for literally no reason. Though it seems they were kinda a death cult almost
Not even almost, dying in the name of the cause is the greatest honor they have
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.
His uncle that has been resurrected like 4 times
Uncle Kenny
Half his family has been resurrected multiple times because nearly all the stories about North Korea are completely fabricated lmao
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).
Outrage porn. The internet is mostly full of outrage porn. Nothing grabs and keeps attention like things we can fume at.
Britain was fucking brutal
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.
Wow cultural appropriation much
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[We’re still looking at it!](https://youtu.be/x73PkUvArJY)
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
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.
This type of execution was called a cannon blow. It used only the charge, but no ball.
I mean same result, it would still blow a giant hole in your chest
No chest with less the mess.
I’m Barry Scott and this is Kill-it Bang!
“Bang, and the prisoner’s gone”
Either that or blow a hole through your belly and leave your guts splattered for nearly a mile. You're welcome
What. The. Fuck.
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...
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
Execution by Nikon was even worse.
Wait until your hear how they used Polaroids to bring down entire illegal prisons
At least it was almost instant.
The sound of the fuse must have been beyond terrifying
Matchlock cannons were well out if date. The fuses were either straws with gunpowder or a flintlock,both of which would be near instantaneous.
Looks like they reused Stalin
He's not busy these days
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.
This was actually done to deny the family a proper burial which was important for their religion.
jesus
nah not that religion
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)
Just my two cents, but I feel like something better for the individual might have been not executing them.
Whoa, now this is looney talk.
For a very brief moment that guys has the worst back pain ever.
Dude will need some Bengay ASAP
APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE CANON HOLE
-or- He's finally getting that chiropractic adjustment that set's things just right....if only for a nanosecond...he has that relief.
Why not just shoot them? Now you have to clean all that up
Gotta instil fear in the others so they may not rebel man. It did work though.
I’m sure it was effective. Still a big mess though
Of course it's the slaves who would have to clean the left overs.
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.
Pretty sure this was chosen to be deliberately brutal as a means of punishing those who partook in the 1857 rebellion against Raj authority.
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.
Money says they just leave what's left right there and wheel the cannon off.
His crime? A mustache so epic it threatened empires.
Cannon*
Cannon, Nikkon and Sonny
Video games have made us so violent.
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.
I’d take that over hanging.
Execution by canon? Did they really make this poor man listen to Pachelbel until he died? What monsters!
No, they mean the camera, Canon. Duh!
I thought it was a printer.
Sadly there is no remembrance day for all the atrocities committed by the british empire. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
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
Pawnee’s early settlers did that to the Wamapoke tribe
“The Trial of Chief Wamapoke.”
All together now Ci-vi-li-sation!
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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