<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/77d06c1b-701a-4cf5-bbfc-f4e6568481d5/C64EF68E-8EB1-4471-9690-3AC4904B9863/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/" href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.neatorama.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><P><SPAN class="largetitle"><STRONG>Method: Crushing by Elephant</STRONG></SPAN><STRONG><BR />Deadly Debut: India, 4,000 years ago. (It’s probably older, but recorded history doesn’t go back that far.)</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/3561532C-ECBD-406B-971A-4FA48C14C8F8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/">the tactic involved shutting victims inside the belly of a hollow, life-size brass bull and lighting a fire below it, essentially turning the apparatus into an oven.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><STRONG>Method: Crucifixion</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/32FEE866-3202-4886-A7AF-B94D6F4612BC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><STRONG>Method: The Brazen Bull</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/2596804E-8404-4DF2-80A4-5CA9F0536A0B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><STRONG>Method: Ling Chi</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/">the Chinese practice known as "death by a thousand cuts" involved binding a victim to a pole and carving into his or her arms, torso, and legs</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><P><SPAN class="largetitle"><STRONG>Method: Cave of Roses</STRONG></SPAN><STRONG><BR />Deadly Debut: Sweden, during the Middle Ages (circa the 13th century C.E.)</STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/">the Cave of Roses required locking victims in a dark cave filled with a smorgasbord of venomous creatures and other unpleasant creatures.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><STRONG>Method: Keelhauling</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/BB9D94FA-0C35-4C93-8519-7A0AFF57DF6A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"> keelhauling meant tying a man with rope, dropping him off the front of a ship, then dragging him "across the keel" from bow to stern.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><STRONG>Method: Spanish Donkey (or Wooden Horse)</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/6783CC3A-9070-47DD-A44E-3CFE81408D05" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/">V-shape wedge</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/">pulling them</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"> until the victims split in two</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><STRONG>Method: Guillotine</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/C66BD77E-2366-49D6-8897-B1764093B3F7" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.neatorama.com/img/A8A5EACF-BDFA-471C-A534-0DC7AE1AC467" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C64EF68E-8EB1-4471-9690-3AC4904B9863/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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