This is coming off of part 1, but I had studied many forms of torture during the early modern period. So from this list...which one is the most painful in your opinion?
Crushing
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Death by crushing or pressing is a method of execution that has a history during which the techniques used varied greatly from place to place. This form of execution is no longer sanctioned by any governing body.
Disembowelment
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Disembowelment (evisceration) is the removal of some or all of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract (the bowels), usually through a horizontal incision made across the abdominal area.
Hanged, drawn and quartered
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To be hanged, drawn and quartered. Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated (severe off penis and testicles, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces).
Sawing
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The condemned were hung upside-down and sawn apart vertically through the middle, starting at the groin. Since the body was inverted, the brain received a continuous supply of blood despite severe bleeding, consciousness thereby continuing until, or after, the saw severed the major blood vessels of the abdomen.
. How could even 14th-18th century humans do this to each other?
