Executions and Crucifixion By: Vicky, Natalie, Angel
The Electric Chair
+ Originating in the United States
+ The electroexecution was first suggested in 1881 by Dr. Albert Southwick, a dentist.
+ In 1889, New York’s Electrical Execution Law, the first of its kind in the world, went into effect
+ On August 6, 1890, William Kemmler became the first person to be sent to the chair
+ The electric current would be passed through the individual's body, damage to the internal organs
+ decline due to the rise of lethal injection, which is widely believed to be a more humane.
Brazen Bull
The brazen bull or Sicillian bull
Was a torture and execution device designed in ancient Greece.
The brazen bull was invented by Perillos of Athens .
The bull was made with a door in one side. Was in the form and size of an real bull and had an acoustic apparatus that converted screams into the sound of a bull.
The condemned were locked in the bull, and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until the person inside death.
Saint Antipas was executed by burning in a brazen bull.
Crucifixion
+ tied & nailed to a large wooden cross and hang for several days until death from exhaustion
Started first in Persia ( Iran)
Alexander the Great used it to Carthage.
The Roman started using it around the time Jesus was born
+ Persia, Alexander
+ Islam
+ Japan
+ during WWI
Jesus Christ
Sparta's followers
Saint Peter( upside down)
St. Andrew
Ling chi
Ling Chi was a form of torture and execution used by China from roughly AD 900 until it was banned in 1905.
the Qing dynasty had to stop cruel execution like ling chi, instead chop the criminal's head.
Ling Chi is translated variously as death by a thousands cut or slow slicing. It's usually 8 cuts, the first one is face, the second one is arms and legs , the third one is chest and belly, then the head. But it was way more than 8 cuts. Some of them has thousand cuts. They will cut down little pieces from the criminal. Every cut needed to be bleeding, if the criminal didn't die when the last piece was cut down, or the criminal die before the last cut, then the person who was doing this would be killed as well.
Joseph Marchaned was killed by ling chi execution
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