They also did this here in the US in St Augustine Fl. The old prison still has/had 1 on display. They also designed the jail, so the next convicts to be killed, were placed in a room that was facing the execution area, so they watched others before them being killed, as they waited their turn.
Some criminals were sentenced to have their bodies displayed as opposed to the more common custom of turning it over to family or medical schools. The gibbet allowed the corpse to be displayed without fear of anyone removing it against the court’s ruling.
So, gibbeting was mostly used to display a body "AFTER" execution by some other means; Gibbeting was not an "execution". But, being gibbeted while alive---which didn't happen often--- and left to die of starvation/exposure would be a very bad way to go. However, I believe the most horrendously agonizing method of execution in history is Roman Crucifixion; a fairly healthy criminal could linger for weeks while experiencing excruciating agony the whole time till death....as was it's intention.
They would not have "lingered for weeks". A person cannot survive much longer than 3-4 days without water. So unless it rained buckets and they could drink a little moisture, or someone was giving them fluids, the victim would be dead in a few days, still a monstrous way to go, but much shorter than you think. Add to thirst pretty extreme physical and mental pain, mental stress, panic etc, stress on the heart and lungs due positioning, sweating, perhaps vomiting and other bodily functions, and exposure, yeah, the poor person wouldn't last long even a strong healthy one. Edit: Also, I just looked up "how long does it take to die by crucifixion, here you go: "Death, usually after 6 hours to 4 days, was due to multifactorial pathology: after-effects of compulsory scourging and maiming, haemorrhage and dehydration causing hypovolaemic shock and pain, but the most important factor was progressive asphyxia caused by impairment of respiratory movement. Death was probably commonly precipitated by cardiac arrest, caused by vasovagal reflexes, initiated inter alia by severe anoxaemia (basically zero oxygen in the arteries), severe pain, body blows and breaking of the large bones. The attending Roman guards could only leave the site after the victim had died, and were known to precipitate death by means of deliberate fracturing of the tibia and/or fibula, spear stab wounds into the heart, sharp blows to the front of the chest, or a smoking fire built at the foot of the cross to asphyxiate the victim." Yeah. Nice. Humans are monsters.
I doubt you'd last week's. Dehydration would end you within a few days out in the sun if not less than a day depending on the heat. But even that won't end you. You die from asphyxiation due to fatigue and unable to breathe properly. You die once you slump and can't force your chest to move to breathe. I'm sure it fucking sucks the entire time. The most pleasurable part is probably getting nailed to it. And those nails went through the wrists. And we're backed up with ropes to lash you to the beam. And just so it took longer they'd give you a small ledge to stand up on which let you breathe. Only after exhaustion and exposure caused you to no longer hold yourself up did you eventually succumb. That Roman soldier who speared Jesus was doing him a favor. It was an act of mercy.
@@machfiver753 I miss spoke. In Plutarch's historical account of the 'Third Servile War'.. it is stated that many of the rebellious slaves and gladiators that were Crucified lingered for upwards of 6 to 7 days (they were pretty damn healthy and had the stamina to last that long)....and the Centurions took to breaking their legs to get it over with.
There's a place in my home town that was known until recently as "Stinking corner" because it's where the gibbet was- unfortunately it's been renamed as "Primrose hill" to fit modern sensibilities & it's old name is being forgot as us locals are rapidly becoming outnumbered. Good video thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
Would you want to live at Stinking Corner? If you want to remember history, do what every other place does, put up a plaque to describe the history, write a book, write a song or poem. The name Stinking Corner wouldn't automatically explain the history anyways, a place can stink for millions of reasons. Case in point, Maralardo...😅
@@abelis644 it's not somewhere that folks live, it's a roundabout. Just think it's sad local history ( & national in many cases) is being erased because it offends people who aren't from here anyway. 🤷🏼♂️
@@stevefox8605 Well said mate, too much bending over backwards to accommodate snowflakes, political correctness and foreigners these days. If you erase history you only run the risk of repeating it.
@@stevefox8605 so true, it should keep it's name so people are reminded of what things were like, a sort of deterrent, if you erase history, you forget where you went wrong and end up making the same mistakes, surely we've evolved to not be so stupid as to keep making the same dumb mistakes... We'd like to think so eh ;)
The last man to be Gibbeted in England was Tom Otter. He was tried at a Court held in the Sun Inn at Saxilby near Lincoln. The road on which he was gibbeted is now known as Tom Otter’s Lane. The location is now called Gibbet Farm.
Used at a location just outside Swords Co.Dublin Ireland on the edge of the "Pale ". The Pale being the land under Norman rule ie Norman law. Outside of the pale Old Irish law existed. Hence the expression " beyond the pale" a term used to express a person's behaviour or deeds as uncivilised. It was punishable by death for anyone to water or feed the person ( criminal)suspended in the cage. The sight of a person suspended in a cage ,was a warning to native Irish entering the pale that they were now subject to Norman Law .
I think you need to read a history book when the english invaded they were called Norman's the the Cromwellans etc but to call the english in the pale Norman's or civilised is a stretch even hears a irish politican use that term beyond the pale
@@liambyrne5285 Liam its not me that needs to study history. The Norman's were from Normandy in the North of France . Hence the term Norman = north man. The people at the time living in that part of the island that we now call England, were Anglo Saxon and also a group of inhabitants called Viking ,The term "English " and identity didn't come into existence until much later in history. As to the term "civilised", I'm using that in their context of the word,It does not have any connotation on my use of the word today. Just another note ,the term " irish town" as for example in Dublin, Dundalk,Drogheda etc as used today ,is a relic of the Norman invasion of Ireland. As local inhabitants ( irish) were note allowed to live within the town walls of a Norman town. The irish had to leave these towns at night and what usually happened was they lived in groups of dwellings outside the town walls , this then became an irish town. History lesson over.
All these medieval torture things always say 'die slowly of starvation'. A person can go weeks or even months without food. They can go like four days without water. They didn't starve, they thirsted to death or died of exposure.
Guy Fawkes was not Hung Drawn and Quartered. He was certainly due to be but climbing the ladder to start the hanging procedure he threw himself off it breaking his neck and robbing his guards of the whole procedure.
Even though Fawkes died during the hanging part, they still went ahead with the rest of the punishment so he was technically hung, drawn and quartered.
The correct order would be Drawn, Hung, then Quartered. So he was most definitely drawn, which means that he was dragged by horse from his prison to his execution site, because they believed that as a "traitor", he was no longer fit to walk the Earth.
Regardless of which method is most brutal, I believe that public execution should be employed once again, as today, most criminals do not fear a prison sentence. In fact, many criminals think prison is a badge of honor, a rite of passage for the convicted.
@@khankrum1 sure they are. There are many people walking around today only because people are afraid of being punished if the killed them. This is a fact. Scumbag liberals hate this truth.
Usually, a criminal had been executed before being put on a fiber, but I daresay that there were cases of the criminal deliberately being put in the cage alive.
I think this was the case he also mentioned starvation, just waiting in that cage to die it could take weeks also with the weather and such and that criminal was just hanging there in the cage i think i would go insane that i cant go anywhere...
Having both your shin bones, then your leg bones, then your forearm bones, then your arm bones being broken, then being woven through a wheel because now you are really flexible and left to die due to exposure, to me is the worst. The breaking wheel and being woven.
@@USGrant-rr2by Yes, being flayed would hurt for sure. But as gruesome as it sounds, I don't know that you would live through, or very long after being skinned.....but nailed to a cross and left to die from exposure over an extended period...the though leaves me wondering what could be worse....maybe cause I'm inpatient by nature.
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In the very short history of the U.S. (as opposed to almost all other countries on the planet), ours was the first to outlaw cruel and unusual punishment. So, for most of our first 100 years or so, the typical go to method has been hanging. But in an attempt to make death as quick and painless as possible, at times we have used the firing squad, the electric chair and the latest, lethal injection. All those methods are still used on military personell. Especially those who end up being traitors to the country. The most common name used to describe a traitor during war is Benedict Arnold. He was an exellant officer under George Washington but had been passed up for another. And his embarrassment, grief and anger led to him siding with the British, becoming a spy for some time as well. And at that time, the thought of us winning the revolutionary war was very much in doubt. So, for being slighted as he felt, he was going to be damned if he was going to be hanged by the British at the end of the war for treason. On a side note, those who we now call the founding fathers were considered terrorist extremists and traitors by the British. If we had lost the war, they would have all been hanged. What makes them extraordinary men was the fact that they knew this when they started, yet did it anyhow. And that is where Americans first had the attitude that we would rather die on our feet, than to live on our knees. This is also why we have the second amendment unchanged even today. They had prevailed and won the war. But they lost more battles than they actually won. The 2nd A. first talks of a well regulated militia. That militia was to be made up of common everyday men trained to fight. Whether they were a blacksmith, a farmer or even a clergyman. But it was also understood that there was no weapon that a person could not own, including a machine gun (and yes they existed then), any handheld weapon or even a cannon. And that rule still applies today. The PEOPLE have that unalienable (God given) right to keep (own) and bare (carry) arms and that right CANNOT BE INFRINGED. Yet, since the 2nd A. was written, we have managed to infringe on it over 35,000 times. Our founding fathers would have altered our government decades ago. The reason there is no restriction in the 2nd A. is because the citizen must have access to all the same exact weapons as the government does so they have a chance to put down tyranny. I have heard millions of times "But, but in those times the only weapons were flint lock muskets and handguns". First, that is absolutely incorrect. But that would also mean that the founding fathers never thought that weapons would be improved over over time. And that is simply ludacris. So, my answer always is, "Ok, if that is the case, change the 2nd A." But the reason it remains unchanged is because there is no way in hell someone in favor of gun control could ever get it changed. So they try to legislate interpretations of the 2nd A. and they completely ignore its last 4 words, ".....shall not be infringed" The federal constitution trumps ALL law. And those laws need not be followed and they are no law at all if they violate the constitution. In fact, it is our duty to openly and overtly violate such laws with prejudice. The ONLY thing that gives unconstitutional law legitimacy is when the people obey and follow them. If nobody followed them, they would no longer exist. To this day our executions of criminals are still witnessed by a certain amount of people. Usually a priest or other clergyman, the prison warden and the few guards needed to bring in the prisoner, set up the execution and later to remove the body. There may also be family member of the criminal's victim/s, maybe a member of the criminal's family so the criminal has the opportunity to see a family member beforehand and at least a few members of the press. The reasons the executions must be witnessed is to ensure that it 1. was actually carried out 2. the correct person is executed and 3. to ensure that the method of execution is carried out according to law. Whereas in the past, they were done publically. So much so that people would make a day of it, to include a picnic lunch. Now this is just my opinion, but I believe they should still be public. Not necessarily in the open, but placed on a government TV channel. I also believe that "tickets" should be sold as people pay via pay-per-view. All money collected would go to the victim's family or a charity of their choosing. There is a phrase used to describe such a thing called, "fascination with the abomination". And many if not all of us have been guilty of such a thing. The most common being when traffic slows to a crawl on our side of the highway as people are looking at a horrible car accident on the other side of the highway, with traffic backed up in the opposite direction and the accident, nor emergency vehicles, are blocking our side at all. The urge to look at such an event is so strong that even those who would never dare watch an execution cannot help but to look at that tragety. There are many reasons for this, including those who honestly feel horrible for them and even say a prayer for their soul. But we are all looking to see if someone is hurt or looking for a body. And yes, this includes children young enough to be toddlers. Regardless of the method used for an execution, there is something infinitely worse. That is when we execute a prisoner and later find out that the person was innocent of the crime they were found guilty of. And it does happen. We are a nation of laws. Many of which we need to get rid of. That is why if someone is facing the death penalty, if found guilty, they have an automatic appeal. No justice system is perfect. But I would rather face a jury of my peers here than in any other country on the planet. Even though we have charged, found guilty, exhausted all appeals and overlooked a pardon, innocent people still serve very long sentences and are executed. And if we can still do that today with all our advancements in criminology, I shutter to think how many innocents were executed the world over for thousands of years. Earlier this year I was assigned to jury duty. To my surprise I was elected foreman of the jury. And rather than just sit down and take a vote and try to change the minds of those who were in the minority, I started deliberations telling everyone in the room what the accused faced if we found them guilty. So I said that even if there was only one person that felt the accused was innocent or guilty, we were all going to listen as to why. The simplest reason being that that person may have thought of something the rest of us didn't. I also said no one was leaving that room until everyone gave the reason for how they voted. I was not going to send someone to prison if people could not articulate their reasoning and vote. If we could not get a conviction after everyone's explanation, the accused would be set free. Even if they were guilty. The case took 1 hour and 15 minutes. Our deliberations took slightly more than 4 hours. When we were done, before alerting the bailiff, I told them that they should be proud of what we did that day because everyone got to speak their mind, we had gone over even the most minute details of the case and I believed we came to the right decision. Therefore, nobody needed to ever feel regret or guilt so long as they told the truth. I then signed the verdicts of 2 seperate charges and we went back into the courtroom where my signed papers were handed to the judge, then handed to the clerk to read allowed and finally the judge polled the entire jury. Could we have made a mistake? Absolutely. But considering what and how we discussed the case, I do not think we did. For perspective, this was not a death penalty case. But the accused faced 20 years for just one of the charges.
So by the reckoning of the second amendment in the “ people should have the same weapons as the government so they can put down tyranny” well that’s a load of crap. By that logic we should all have nukes tanks submarines drones etc. etc. that is stupid
General policing frequently turns into "cruel & unusual punishment" (with qualified imunity) in the US. Without a trial! 🥁 Edit: ruclips.net/video/VEyVUKf-8Rk/видео.html ruclips.net/video/HPSZw37V_VQ/видео.html ruclips.net/video/Exyy13KbES8/видео.html ruclips.net/video/JaxLfPtOYAg/видео.html And in other modern countries: ruclips.net/video/w6cZrtWykck/видео.html So many more. Between the school tragedies & the rampant, daily rights violations by the blue gang, the US is pretty full of unexpected cruel punishments. The crime? Existing.
To your point about upholding the 2nd amendment, can you please then explain why the pro gun lobby and gun touting "Melita" did not rise against Trump and oust him from office when he declared falsely to have won an election? In actual fact, the complete reverse happened, and you had the pro gun lobby and gun touting Melita storm the capitol building, armed, and ready to lynch the vice president for "treachery" against trump. Care to defend your 2nd A now? Also, your constitution has been amended, altered, rewritten multiple times since its incarnation. So please spare us the sanctimonious twaddle that it is sacrosanct and must NEVER be changed. That is demonstrably false. Your second amendment has been utterly ruinous. Hiding behind a "right to bare arms" against a tyrannous government is frankly laughable. Give your head a wobble.
Your understanding of history is very flawed, You sound like a psychopath and a control freak. You would not talk to ME that way as part of an jury, I can tell you that.
@@alexroberts9349 I had a great 40 year marriage. We stayed together until my husband died last fall. I really miss him. We were friend since I was 8 and he was 10.
@@alexroberts9349 Thank you for that nice comment, but you didn’t have to delete your previous comment. If that is what your experience in life was, then that is your feeling that you are entitled to. Not all marriages are good. My parents didn’t last 2 years together and I remember how adversarial they were, even after their divorce. Sometimes it just doesn’t work and I don’t judge people for that. Maybe my marriage worked because we were friends for a very long time before we became a romantic couple. I think people jump into sex too early and don’t really get to know the person first. Anyway, that is just my 2 cents worth. God bless.
I grew up in a very pleasant small English market town that had a bridge named Swooning Bridge that I was told got that name from the effect the sight of the body in the gibbet had on people travelling past. There was also a local spot called Gibbets Gorse.
I read once that relatives or loved ones sometimes tried to help them by sneaking food or water at night, don't know if it's true but imagine doing that and only prolonging it 😳
Not a clue sorry, apparently some of the earlier "gibbots" were built into castle walls so probably an evolution of that, sorry I couldn't give you a proper answer bud.
Interestingly I used to live near a rural road call Gibbet Lane. It's about 20 miles outside lincoln and on the A46 between grimsby and Lincoln. I always wondered if this was where people were displayed
In my city kochi, southern India, there is the palace, now a museum. A gibbet cage is displayed there. This method of execution had been in use here too.
most brutal? I don't think so. Crucifixion is worse. Also, being sawn vertically in half from bottom to top is much more brutal as the person remains alert while it's happening since they were placed upside down.
@@martinrea8548 Let's not forget about "blood eagle". Having your rib cage opened up from the back and your lungs pulled out probably wasn't very pleasant.
Actually dying of "starvation" is FAR from the worst ways to go. From what I understand it's a bit tough for the first 3-4 days but not long afterwards you basically just "zone out" and eventually just pass away in your sleep.
You forgot to mention that the hanging was kind of light, did not break the neck and was was stopped just before coma. Then repeated. The same with the following ordeals. Execution took a while...
It's strange, crime deterrent never worked. Greatest example is recent 1800's....hanging for stealing one horse or one head of cattle. Sure would have deterred me, but you can't fix stupid! So we come full circle.
You're talking about people who's proposition was starve to death or steal, and face the possibility of death. As opposed to today, where you can walk into a supermarket in LA, walk out with $900 worth of goods, and come back then next day and do it again, without fear of repercussion.
Hello. Consider the Orientals, used “Death by a thousand cuts”. Which is exactly like sounds, as I understand, they were usually blinded first. Explanation isn’t exactly clear to when they died.
"Orientals"??? 😅 That's a pretty dated term... The US government prohibits the use of that term to describe ASIANS so you won't find it in any governmental document. It's 2022... not 1922...
Do try to get your basic facts right. Guy Fawkes was NOT hanged, drawn and quartered. Although this was his sentence, he escaped this death by jumping from the scaffold and breaking his neck.
That was the choice you got. They made you climb up a ladder and jump off whenever. You jumped early, then you were still alive when you were ‘drawn’. And if you survived that you would be alive for the quartering…….
I think that Guy Fawkes was SENTENCED to be hung, drawn and quartered, but he jumped off the scaffold when they put the noose around his neck, so he essentially committed suicide to avoid the sentence being carried out.
Saw one of those contraptions in the Victoria museum in Calcutta in 1974, along with lots of other interesting bits and pieces. Wish I had a digital camera then.
Makes me think of the Iron Maiden. Anyone know if that was actually used? Hard to find historical texts regarding actual usage. And NO, not taking about the British metal band
Aye the Iron Maiden was indeed a horrific torture, and yes I am talking about having to listen to the album over and over being played by ones teenage kids.
I watch these videos out of curiosity. In this case, I wonder at the many ways people devise to execute a said criminal. Through these hundreds of years, it has not stopped people from committing heinous crimes. I think I’ll just let law enforcement take care of it. I had no heard of this form of execution before. Thank you for the videos.
I understand that "brutal" is a subjective term but half assed, half truths are not. This is the second video I've seen that the truth was changed or altered for effect. History is what it is. It happened. There's no need to omit facts to tell the story. You have an obligation to the truth when telling history especially on RUclips. Millions of people use the content as educational.
yeah, i don't get what you mean either.. "brutal" means ugly or repulsive. subjective of not, i would class a dying or dead body hanging overhead being pecked my crows etc. as a repulsive sight.
In West Berkshire we still have a Gibbet site, Coombe Gibet, I believe the picture of the Gibbet post high on the hill side in your video is the very same.
A punishment reserved for pirates and highwaymen. Pirates were gibbeted and then suspended alive, by a chain, below a bridge. They didn't last long. For one reason, crows and other birds would get busy and peck away at the victim's eyeballs and other vital parts. When the remains were pulled up, little was left but some dry bones. Highwaymen (land pirates) were suspended from trees above the roads near the scene of their crimes.
Sorry, you are decidedly unclear. From the content, gibbeting is not an "execution" method, but a way to display a corpse, except for a brief mentioning of someone being gibbeted alive, without examples or references.
I'm no expert on gibbeting, but what I gathered from the narrator, it is always done to a live person. So it is, in essence, a torturous execution, but with a long sustained display of the remains thereafter. Yes he rambles a lot with his odd and repetitive reading cadence.
@@1SqueakyWheel the narrator is wrong, "gibbetting" just means displaying a body, it was almost always done post-execution. It's hard to do it to a live person if they've only got a head left as was the case with Cromwell. A "gibbet" is just an old term for any instrument of execution so you'll often find places called things like "Gibbet Hill" because they used to have a gallows on top.
I don't know if I'd call this the 'most brutal'. I'd say scaphism would be worse the dehydration, starvation and exposure of the gibbet while also lying in your own shit and being eaten alive by insects.
The most brutal method of execution I ever heard of was to nail a person to a long log and set the end closest to the feet on fire. The log would slowly burn from one end to the other.
A town in County Roscommon, Ireland is called Knockrockery , or Hangman's Hill in Irish, Gatwick.The entire town was burned by the Black and Tans in 1921 during Irelands War of independence..
DAMN!!! i feel i been through that for a brief second anyway , as i used to drink everyday of my life i came in one night drunk and very cold so i put my frozen feet in front of the fire and passed out i woke to most pain ive ever been in my socks where melted to my feet my first thought was suicide it really was, people who have been burned all over there body my heart goes out to you it really does , but one good thing came from it its been 3 years since ive had a beer , well i never had a beer i had an 24 or 30 pack
Have a look at Chillingham Castle's methods. Such as a large pot to fit in a person,full of inward facing spikes. Once locked inside,the pot was rolled around the courtyard until the victim was dead. Brutal.
I thought rarely was someone sentenced to actually starve to death in a gibbet as that was how they died. Gibbeting was to display and discourage as you say. It was just like spiking heads of the executed to the tops of castle walls. As many have said being crucified or burned alive were the worst ways to go
Nope. Crucifixion wins most brutal. A close second goes to the ancient Persians. A giant hollow bronze bull would be filled by an unlucky prisoner. Then sealed. Then a bonfire was lit beneath. The rest you can imagine.
The male warlock in the Salem witch trials was executed by lying on the ground with a plank over him and the tons of boders stack on the plank till he was literally squashed like a bug- seems like a very bad way to be executed! Broken on the wheel wouldnt be a lot of fun either!
I've been near a body that had decayed for about a month at a mortuary it's definitely a smell you won't forget it will literally make you nauseous just thinking about it
the breaking wheel was IMHO the worst method. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel especially when the person was literally braided within the wheel. This was only possible with multiple broken bones.
at one time it meant you would be strapped onto a lattice cross of heavy logs then a wagon wheel was used to break bones in multiple times in the arm's and legs then the main torso
When it comes to most brutal, I know it's not medieval but I would like to know something about use (when, where, why) of the roman flagrum or scourge. All the vids on RUclips about it are from religious people, not historians.
By law criminals were too receive 10 lashes. Christ received 30 lashes because of the cruel/probably drunk guards. He knew that this would happen, so that it would be known that He endured the worst possible death of all time. This was in addition to the beatings, crowning of thorns, and crucifixion. The scourge had a handle and leather strips that had metal bars tied to the ends. The pieces of metal would often catch and cut to the bone. It would then be ripped out for another strike. The condemns hands were tied up high and the feet were secured so there could be no avoidance of the strikes.
There is a Wooden Gibbet out on the old Road from Cambridge to Bedford at a now Roundabout on the old London Road from Papworth to Caxton…… Caxton Gibbet and it is where a notorious Highwaymen was Gibbetted
Very interesting, I'm from Leicester and didn't know about that, so much for school education eh lol I'll have to do some more research onto that, thank you for the video.
Contrary to what this video states, not one person who was Gibbeted alive died of starvation...dehydration perhaps, but not starvation. My 7 year old son was able to figure this out on his own...
Imagine being the mother or sister, daughter or wife of someone who had been gibbeted and you had to slowly watch them starve to death then after that, just rot away Horrible!
The problem with the public executions and morbid public displays of the executed, is that it didn't prevent crimes. It just frightened children, and the people with the intellect of children.
Execution is a punishment not a deterrent. You can never deter people from committing horrible crimes( that's just human nature) but you can punish them by taking their life in turn and ridding society of vile murderous scum as opposed to feeding, clothing, housing and even providing medical care for the rest of their lives AT TAXPAYERS EXPENSE.
Guy Fawkes actually avoided most of his punishment, when the rope was placed around his neck for the "Hanged" portion of his sentence he leapt off the ladder and broke his neck. Thereby cheating the crowd of witnessing his agonies during the other portions.
It was a bad business to be a criminal by then. Nowadays, it's so much easier to be a criminal. Maybe we should learn better from the past and reinstate the wonderful horrific practices. I bet it would reduce criminality to almost zero.
I don't know but I think this is just a display method after death, not an execution method. I also think the Brazen bull, or being set atop a sharpened pike to slide down over time- al la Vlad the impaler, would be far worse
And now we leave the worst of criminals walk free among us. We need to start swinging back to holding evil people accountable and allowing decent people to live without fear of said criminals.
What would happen if somebody removed a gibbeted criminal? For example family, friends or the gang took action during a night and remove the gibbet from a highway?
That happened after 3 weeks with William Jobling at Jarrow Slake in County Durham on 31 August 1832. The body and gibbet chains disappeared and were never seen again. The punishment in that case was 7 years transportation but no one was ever caught, not least, perhaps, because that execution and gibbeting did not enjoy popular support.
They also did this here in the US in St Augustine Fl. The old prison still has/had 1 on display. They also designed the jail, so the next convicts to be killed, were placed in a room that was facing the execution area, so they watched others before them being killed, as they waited their turn.
Big, big mistake when the progressives demanded an end to such barbarism.
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Well... catman said it was Florida...😅😅😅
@@abelis644 St. Augustine Florida was the location of the Spanish Colony in America. I'm guessing this was during that period?
Bring it back
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Yes, so everyone knows who enjoys this kind of spectacle, and then the rest of us can immolate them.
Some criminals were sentenced to have their bodies displayed as opposed to the more common custom of turning it over to family or medical schools.
The gibbet allowed the corpse to be displayed without fear of anyone removing it against the court’s ruling.
Interesting and terrifying as well !
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So, gibbeting was mostly used to display a body "AFTER" execution by some other means; Gibbeting was not an "execution". But, being gibbeted while alive---which didn't happen often--- and left to die of starvation/exposure would be a very bad way to go. However, I believe the most horrendously agonizing method of execution in history is Roman Crucifixion; a fairly healthy criminal could linger for weeks while experiencing excruciating agony the whole time till death....as was it's intention.
They would not have "lingered for weeks".
A person cannot survive much longer than 3-4 days without water.
So unless it rained buckets and they could drink a little moisture, or someone was giving them fluids, the victim would be dead in a few days, still a monstrous way to go, but much shorter than you think.
Add to thirst pretty extreme physical and mental pain, mental stress, panic etc, stress on the heart and lungs due positioning, sweating, perhaps vomiting and other bodily functions, and exposure, yeah, the poor person wouldn't last long even a strong healthy one.
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Also, I just looked up "how long does it take to die by crucifixion, here you go:
"Death, usually after 6 hours to 4 days, was due to multifactorial pathology: after-effects of compulsory scourging and maiming, haemorrhage and dehydration causing hypovolaemic shock and pain, but the most important factor was progressive asphyxia caused by impairment of respiratory movement.
Death was probably commonly precipitated by cardiac arrest, caused by vasovagal reflexes, initiated inter alia by severe anoxaemia (basically zero oxygen in the arteries), severe pain, body blows and breaking of the large bones. The attending Roman guards could only leave the site after the victim had died, and were known to precipitate death by means of deliberate fracturing of the tibia and/or fibula, spear stab wounds into the heart, sharp blows to the front of the chest, or a smoking fire built at the foot of the cross to asphyxiate the victim."
Yeah. Nice. Humans are monsters.
I doubt you'd last week's. Dehydration would end you within a few days out in the sun if not less than a day depending on the heat. But even that won't end you. You die from asphyxiation due to fatigue and unable to breathe properly. You die once you slump and can't force your chest to move to breathe. I'm sure it fucking sucks the entire time. The most pleasurable part is probably getting nailed to it. And those nails went through the wrists. And we're backed up with ropes to lash you to the beam. And just so it took longer they'd give you a small ledge to stand up on which let you breathe. Only after exhaustion and exposure caused you to no longer hold yourself up did you eventually succumb. That Roman soldier who speared Jesus was doing him a favor. It was an act of mercy.
@@machfiver753 I miss spoke. In Plutarch's historical account of the 'Third Servile War'.. it is stated that many of the rebellious slaves and gladiators that were Crucified lingered for upwards of 6 to 7 days (they were pretty damn healthy and had the stamina to last that long)....and the Centurions took to breaking their legs to get it over with.
Crucifixion was in use even before The Romans. The Persian Empire practiced crucifixion in The 6th Century BCE.
Yes. Though this disturbed Limey is bright when it comes to brutal execution methods, he is somewhat dim overall.
There's a place in my home town that was known until recently as "Stinking corner" because it's where the gibbet was- unfortunately it's been renamed as "Primrose hill" to fit modern sensibilities & it's old name is being forgot as us locals are rapidly becoming outnumbered.
Good video thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
Would you want to live at Stinking Corner?
If you want to remember history, do what every other place does, put up a plaque to describe the history, write a book, write a song or poem.
The name Stinking Corner wouldn't automatically explain the history anyways, a place can stink for millions of reasons. Case in point, Maralardo...😅
@@abelis644 it's not somewhere that folks live, it's a roundabout. Just think it's sad local history ( & national in many cases) is being erased because it offends people who aren't from here anyway. 🤷🏼♂️
@@stevefox8605 Well said mate, too much bending over backwards to accommodate snowflakes, political correctness and foreigners these days. If you erase history you only run the risk of repeating it.
@@stevefox8605 so true, it should keep it's name so people are reminded of what things were like, a sort of deterrent, if you erase history, you forget where you went wrong and end up making the same mistakes, surely we've evolved to not be so stupid as to keep making the same dumb mistakes... We'd like to think so eh ;)
@@Sennaxm71 absolutely 👍🏻
The last man to be Gibbeted in England was Tom Otter. He was tried at a Court held in the Sun Inn at Saxilby near Lincoln. The road on which he was gibbeted is now known as Tom Otter’s Lane. The location is now called Gibbet Farm.
Imagine being the " last" of any barbaric practice... talk about being unlucky lol
YEAH...OLD TOMMY...HE WERE A RIGHT BAD LOT HE WERE!
Definitely "not" haunted 🤷🏼
Tom Otter was not the last man to be gibbeted in England: he was gibbeted in 1806.
James Cook was gibbeted much later in 1832.
@@MrBulky992 tell me more then.
Used at a location just outside Swords Co.Dublin Ireland on the edge of the "Pale ". The Pale being the land under Norman rule ie Norman law. Outside of the pale Old Irish law existed. Hence the expression " beyond the pale" a term used to express a person's behaviour or deeds as uncivilised. It was punishable by death for anyone to water or feed the person ( criminal)suspended in the cage. The sight of a person suspended in a cage ,was a warning to native Irish entering the pale that they were now subject to Norman Law .
I think you need to read a history book when the english invaded they were called Norman's the the Cromwellans etc but to call the english in the pale Norman's or civilised is a stretch even hears a irish politican use that term beyond the pale
@@liambyrne5285 Liam its not me that needs to study history. The Norman's were from Normandy in the North of France . Hence the term Norman = north man. The people at the time living in that part of the island that we now call England, were Anglo Saxon and also a group of inhabitants called Viking ,The term "English " and identity didn't come into existence until much later in history. As to the term "civilised", I'm using that in their context of the word,It does not have any connotation on my use of the word today. Just another note ,the term " irish town" as for example in Dublin, Dundalk,Drogheda etc as used today ,is a relic of the Norman invasion of Ireland. As local inhabitants ( irish) were note allowed to live within the town walls of a Norman town. The irish had to leave these towns at night and what usually happened was they lived in groups of dwellings outside the town walls , this then became an irish town. History lesson over.
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Narrator talks like someone randomly added periods to his sentences in the script.
All these medieval torture things always say 'die slowly of starvation'. A person can go weeks or even months without food. They can go like four days without water. They didn't starve, they thirsted to death or died of exposure.
Guy Fawkes was not Hung Drawn and Quartered. He was certainly due to be but climbing the ladder to start the hanging procedure he threw himself off it breaking his neck and robbing his guards of the whole procedure.
Huh. Smart man
I think the video did mention that, but it was very subtle.
Even though Fawkes died during the hanging part, they still went ahead with the rest of the punishment so he was technically hung, drawn and quartered.
The correct order would be Drawn, Hung, then Quartered. So he was most definitely drawn, which means that he was dragged by horse from his prison to his execution site, because they believed that as a "traitor", he was no longer fit to walk the Earth.
@@PattyBandAidzdon't die as a disbeliever
Regardless of which method is most brutal, I believe that public execution should be employed once again, as today, most criminals do not fear a prison sentence. In fact, many criminals think prison is a badge of honor, a rite of passage for the convicted.
I agree wholeheartedly. It wont stop crime but it will help deter it.
@@robertlaube574 it actually stops repeat offenders. So it stops crime.
Public executions are ot a deterent, never have been.
@@khankrum1 sure they are. There are many people walking around today only because people are afraid of being punished if the killed them. This is a fact. Scumbag liberals hate this truth.
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Guy Fawks was sentenced to be hung drawn and quartered but managed to leap from the gallows to an "easier" death by strangulation.
He broke his neck which killed him
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@@20PINKluvr I stand corrected. 👍
Usually, a criminal had been executed before being put on a fiber, but I daresay that there were cases of the criminal deliberately being put in the cage alive.
I think this was the case he also mentioned starvation, just waiting in that cage to die it could take weeks also with the weather and such and that criminal was just hanging there in the cage i think i would go insane that i cant go anywhere...
This is true !
@@richardslotboom9250 Death wouldn't take weeks -- only a few days due to dehydration. ☠️
@@pablohammerly448 Not in the UK at most times of year when, at the very least, there would be dew in the morning to offset some of the dehydration.
@@MrBulky992don't die as a disbeliever
Having both your shin bones, then your leg bones, then your forearm bones, then your arm bones being broken, then being woven through a wheel because now you are really flexible and left to die due to exposure, to me is the worst. The breaking wheel and being woven.
Skinning ALIVE???
@@USGrant-rr2by Yes, being flayed would hurt for sure. But as gruesome as it sounds, I don't know that you would live through, or very long after being skinned.....but nailed to a cross and left to die from exposure over an extended period...the though leaves me wondering what could be worse....maybe cause I'm inpatient by nature.
@@mrkim3257 Oh there’s all kinds of worse things than being crucified.
@@wompbozer3939 Yeah im sure you've tried them all
@@mrkim3257 I guess you haven’t been watching this channel much
It was not an execution or brutal it was a warning to others. The person in the gibbet was beyond feeling mortal pain.
I’m not disagreeing with you but how were they beyond feeling mortal pain if they werent already dead?
Seems to be pretty damn cruel to me. How did they not feel it?
@@Foxtrap731 Because, they were dead, Jim.
@@elmerkilred159 lol "Damnit Jim"
What are you talking about. A convict put in a cage. Starved to death and in the elements is not brutal enough for you.
It was the most brutal means of execution until....Nickelback albums were available to play for inmates.
Nickleback catches Hell!😅
Get back to 2014.
Listening to nickelback is cruel and unpleasant punishment. 🤣🤣🤣
Constant country music would be a brutal punishment
Look at this photograph!! I love nickelback and creed! NickelCreed! Yeauuuh! Smash mouth too. I wear jean shorts and just blast nickelback while enjoying a can of monster.
In the very short history of the U.S. (as opposed to almost all other countries on the planet), ours was the first to outlaw cruel and unusual punishment. So, for most of our first 100 years or so, the typical go to method has been hanging. But in an attempt to make death as quick and painless as possible, at times we have used the firing squad, the electric chair and the latest, lethal injection. All those methods are still used on military personell. Especially those who end up being traitors to the country.
The most common name used to describe a traitor during war is Benedict Arnold. He was an exellant officer under George Washington but had been passed up for another. And his embarrassment, grief and anger led to him siding with the British, becoming a spy for some time as well. And at that time, the thought of us winning the revolutionary war was very much in doubt. So, for being slighted as he felt, he was going to be damned if he was going to be hanged by the British at the end of the war for treason. On a side note, those who we now call the founding fathers were considered terrorist extremists and traitors by the British. If we had lost the war, they would have all been hanged. What makes them extraordinary men was the fact that they knew this when they started, yet did it anyhow. And that is where Americans first had the attitude that we would rather die on our feet, than to live on our knees. This is also why we have the second amendment unchanged even today. They had prevailed and won the war. But they lost more battles than they actually won.
The 2nd A. first talks of a well regulated militia. That militia was to be made up of common everyday men trained to fight. Whether they were a blacksmith, a farmer or even a clergyman. But it was also understood that there was no weapon that a person could not own, including a machine gun (and yes they existed then), any handheld weapon or even a cannon. And that rule still applies today. The PEOPLE have that unalienable (God given) right to keep (own) and bare (carry) arms and that right CANNOT BE INFRINGED. Yet, since the 2nd A. was written, we have managed to infringe on it over 35,000 times. Our founding fathers would have altered our government decades ago. The reason there is no restriction in the 2nd A. is because the citizen must have access to all the same exact weapons as the government does so they have a chance to put down tyranny. I have heard millions of times "But, but in those times the only weapons were flint lock muskets and handguns". First, that is absolutely incorrect. But that would also mean that the founding fathers never thought that weapons would be improved over over time. And that is simply ludacris. So, my answer always is, "Ok, if that is the case, change the 2nd A." But the reason it remains unchanged is because there is no way in hell someone in favor of gun control could ever get it changed. So they try to legislate interpretations of the 2nd A. and they completely ignore its last 4 words, ".....shall not be infringed" The federal constitution trumps ALL law. And those laws need not be followed and they are no law at all if they violate the constitution. In fact, it is our duty to openly and overtly violate such laws with prejudice. The ONLY thing that gives unconstitutional law legitimacy is when the people obey and follow them. If nobody followed them, they would no longer exist.
To this day our executions of criminals are still witnessed by a certain amount of people. Usually a priest or other clergyman, the prison warden and the few guards needed to bring in the prisoner, set up the execution and later to remove the body. There may also be family member of the criminal's victim/s, maybe a member of the criminal's family so the criminal has the opportunity to see a family member beforehand and at least a few members of the press. The reasons the executions must be witnessed is to ensure that it 1. was actually carried out 2. the correct person is executed and 3. to ensure that the method of execution is carried out according to law. Whereas in the past, they were done publically. So much so that people would make a day of it, to include a picnic lunch.
Now this is just my opinion, but I believe they should still be public. Not necessarily in the open, but placed on a government TV channel. I also believe that "tickets" should be sold as people pay via pay-per-view. All money collected would go to the victim's family or a charity of their choosing. There is a phrase used to describe such a thing called, "fascination with the abomination". And many if not all of us have been guilty of such a thing. The most common being when traffic slows to a crawl on our side of the highway as people are looking at a horrible car accident on the other side of the highway, with traffic backed up in the opposite direction and the accident, nor emergency vehicles, are blocking our side at all. The urge to look at such an event is so strong that even those who would never dare watch an execution cannot help but to look at that tragety. There are many reasons for this, including those who honestly feel horrible for them and even say a prayer for their soul. But we are all looking to see if someone is hurt or looking for a body. And yes, this includes children young enough to be toddlers.
Regardless of the method used for an execution, there is something infinitely worse. That is when we execute a prisoner and later find out that the person was innocent of the crime they were found guilty of. And it does happen. We are a nation of laws. Many of which we need to get rid of. That is why if someone is facing the death penalty, if found guilty, they have an automatic appeal. No justice system is perfect. But I would rather face a jury of my peers here than in any other country on the planet. Even though we have charged, found guilty, exhausted all appeals and overlooked a pardon, innocent people still serve very long sentences and are executed. And if we can still do that today with all our advancements in criminology, I shutter to think how many innocents were executed the world over for thousands of years.
Earlier this year I was assigned to jury duty. To my surprise I was elected foreman of the jury. And rather than just sit down and take a vote and try to change the minds of those who were in the minority, I started deliberations telling everyone in the room what the accused faced if we found them guilty. So I said that even if there was only one person that felt the accused was innocent or guilty, we were all going to listen as to why. The simplest reason being that that person may have thought of something the rest of us didn't. I also said no one was leaving that room until everyone gave the reason for how they voted. I was not going to send someone to prison if people could not articulate their reasoning and vote. If we could not get a conviction after everyone's explanation, the accused would be set free. Even if they were guilty. The case took 1 hour and 15 minutes. Our deliberations took slightly more than 4 hours. When we were done, before alerting the bailiff, I told them that they should be proud of what we did that day because everyone got to speak their mind, we had gone over even the most minute details of the case and I believed we came to the right decision. Therefore, nobody needed to ever feel regret or guilt so long as they told the truth. I then signed the verdicts of 2 seperate charges and we went back into the courtroom where my signed papers were handed to the judge, then handed to the clerk to read allowed and finally the judge polled the entire jury. Could we have made a mistake? Absolutely. But considering what and how we discussed the case, I do not think we did. For perspective, this was not a death penalty case. But the accused faced 20 years for just one of the charges.
You had me all the way to the point of selling tickets to these “public” executions….pretty sure that’s just a snuff video
So by the reckoning of the second amendment in the “ people should have the same weapons as the government so they can put down tyranny” well that’s a load of crap. By that logic we should all have nukes tanks submarines drones etc. etc. that is stupid
General policing frequently turns into "cruel & unusual punishment" (with qualified imunity) in the US. Without a trial! 🥁
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So many more. Between the school tragedies & the rampant, daily rights violations by the blue gang, the US is pretty full of unexpected cruel punishments. The crime? Existing.
To your point about upholding the 2nd amendment, can you please then explain why the pro gun lobby and gun touting "Melita" did not rise against Trump and oust him from office when he declared falsely to have won an election? In actual fact, the complete reverse happened, and you had the pro gun lobby and gun touting Melita storm the capitol building, armed, and ready to lynch the vice president for "treachery" against trump. Care to defend your 2nd A now? Also, your constitution has been amended, altered, rewritten multiple times since its incarnation. So please spare us the sanctimonious twaddle that it is sacrosanct and must NEVER be changed. That is demonstrably false. Your second amendment has been utterly ruinous. Hiding behind a "right to bare arms" against a tyrannous government is frankly laughable. Give your head a wobble.
Your understanding of history is very flawed, You sound like a psychopath and a control freak. You would not talk to ME that way as part of an jury, I can tell you that.
One of the most gruesome marketing concepts I've seen.
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The most brutal execution has to be Marriage.
Slow but effective 👌
Not when your marriage is a good one
@@alexroberts9349 I had a great 40 year marriage. We stayed together until my husband died last fall. I really miss him. We were friend since I was 8 and he was 10.
@@lisabaltzer4190 I am so sorry to hear about your loss, I deleted my comment.
@@alexroberts9349 Thank you for that nice comment, but you didn’t have to delete your previous comment. If that is what your experience in life was, then that is your feeling that you are entitled to. Not all marriages are good. My parents didn’t last 2 years together and I remember how adversarial they were, even after their divorce. Sometimes it just doesn’t work and I don’t judge people for that. Maybe my marriage worked because we were friends for a very long time before we became a romantic couple. I think people jump into sex too early and don’t really get to know the person first. Anyway, that is just my 2 cents worth. God bless.
@@lisabaltzer4190 Thank you for that, and God bless you also.
I grew up in a very pleasant small English market town that had a bridge named Swooning Bridge that I was told got that name from the effect the sight of the body in the gibbet had on people travelling past. There was also a local spot called Gibbets Gorse.
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@sayitlikeitis5026dont don't die as a disbeliever
Suicide not allowed
Nonsense. Anyone gibbetted alive would die through dehydration long before starvation.
I read once that relatives or loved ones sometimes tried to help them by sneaking food or water at night, don't know if it's true but imagine doing that and only prolonging it 😳
@@chriselson7413
How would they get up the pole?
The victim had no way to grab anything and put it to their mouth...
Not a clue sorry, apparently some of the earlier "gibbots" were built into castle walls so probably an evolution of that, sorry I couldn't give you a proper answer bud.
A lot of times they were hung alive. The Crows would peck their eyes out first.
Interestingly I used to live near a rural road call Gibbet Lane. It's about 20 miles outside lincoln and on the A46 between grimsby and Lincoln. I always wondered if this was where people were displayed
It's possible !
I was a highwayman
Along the coach roads i did ride
@@morsstrages6282suicide not allowed
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In my city kochi, southern India, there is the palace, now a museum. A gibbet cage is displayed there. This method of execution had been in use here too.
Fear Allah
most brutal? I don't think so. Crucifixion is worse. Also, being sawn vertically in half from bottom to top is much more brutal as the person remains alert while it's happening since they were placed upside down.
And impaling!
@@MayimHastings The breaking wheel wasn't much of a laugh either.
@@martinrea8548 Let's not forget about "blood eagle". Having your rib cage opened up from the back and your lungs pulled out probably wasn't very pleasant.
@@gancyr3D 😱
Try Scaphism if you want something truly diabolical.
I'm thinking this would be an interesting way of dealing with car thieves, murders and of course politicians
pedophiles, well you did mention politicians
Hur hur. Politicians BAD.
@@terryboland3816 yes
This should be revived for treasonous politicians.
Today.
Was never used on Blair so your idea is invalid
what happened to the background music? i feel like that really gave your content a more dramatic context. cheers!
Jesus was not killed nor jesus was crucified
Gibbeting was usually used to display a body after execution at town or city lines. Meaning don’t commit a crime here
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Actually dying of "starvation" is FAR from the worst ways to go. From what I understand it's a bit tough for the first 3-4 days but not long afterwards you basically just "zone out" and eventually just pass away in your sleep.
You forgot to mention that the hanging was kind of light, did not break the neck and was was stopped just before coma. Then repeated.
The same with the following ordeals. Execution took a while...
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@TheFortress Thank you for always providing us with such excellent content. Cheers, my friend!
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Always the best and fullest information. Thank you.
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I do appreciate that you know the correct use of “ hung and hanged”. Nice.
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It's strange, crime deterrent never worked. Greatest example is recent 1800's....hanging for stealing one horse or one head of cattle. Sure would have deterred me, but you can't fix stupid! So we come full circle.
You're talking about people who's proposition was starve to death or steal, and face the possibility of death.
As opposed to today, where you can walk into a supermarket in LA, walk out with $900 worth of goods, and come back then next day and do it again, without fear of repercussion.
What criminal thinks they're ever going to be caught?
Aside from the 100% success rate of eliminating repeat offenders haha!
@@N20Joe was a perfect fix to recidivism
@@bigvito4630 Only that isn't a fix. I can fix the need to cut my finger nails by just amputating my arm.
My hometown of Coventry has a well known route called Gibbet Hill. It's whereabouts is between Coventry and Kenilworth and is a very long road...
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The roman cross still seems way more painful, than being tortured after being dead...
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Was it common for jet aircraft to fly over leaving contrails when a person was gibbeted?
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Hello. Consider the Orientals, used “Death by a thousand cuts”. Which is exactly like sounds, as I understand, they were usually blinded first. Explanation isn’t exactly clear to when they died.
Blinding a person is an ancient practice either as a crime punishment or just because.
"Orientals"??? 😅
That's a pretty dated term...
The US government prohibits the use of that term to describe ASIANS so you won't find it in any governmental document.
It's 2022... not 1922...
@@abelis644 Sorry, did the term oriental just melt you!? People today are a right bunch of wets!
@@abelis644 He is referring to a historical event. Try learning to comprehend. 🙄
@@abelis644 "Unhinged Leftist" much??
You repeated the same information 3 or 4 times.
I still think crucifixion and the oubliette were worse.
Crucifixion kills pretty quickly by asphyxiation.
I agree about the oubliettes though.
Oubliette is where we got the word oblivion
Ill take the obliette over being boiled or roasted alive.
@@ikealamp53 Well, I’ve done nine months in solitary confinement. It’s different after you get just a little taste
@@marymcintosh4406 i did not say it's a picnic of some sort but i still pick it over the other options
I guess this is one of the things the drafters of the U.S. constitution meant by "cruel and unusual punishment. Today it mean no cable in your cell.
"there was one common strand between all methods of public execution and it's the fact they were performed in public".....You don't say?
Hmm, yes. This floor is made of floor.
Do try to get your basic facts right. Guy Fawkes was NOT hanged, drawn and quartered. Although this was his sentence, he escaped this death by jumping from the scaffold and breaking his neck.
Guy Fawkes was still quartered... after breaking his neck and dying, but still...
He was hanged, drawn and quartered - escaping the fate of being hung, drawn and quartered by jumping from the scaffold!
That was the choice you got. They made you climb up a ladder and jump off whenever. You jumped early, then you were still alive when you were ‘drawn’. And if you survived that you would be alive for the quartering…….
@@noelnicholls1894 No, I don't think that's true.
@@terryboland3816 Well, that’s the story I got in school in the 1960’s. The plotters fled to Coughton Court so the story was a big deal in the area.
I think that Guy Fawkes was SENTENCED to be hung, drawn and quartered, but he jumped off the scaffold when they put the noose around his neck, so he essentially committed suicide to avoid the sentence being carried out.
That was the highwayman known as dick Turpin
They still carried it out then dragged him behind horses, if I remember my A level history.
@@edmundblackaddercoc8522 yes but it was Turpin who jumped off the gallows and not Guy Fawkes
I read that account as well.
Saw one of those contraptions in the Victoria museum in Calcutta in 1974, along with lots of other interesting bits and pieces. Wish I had a digital camera then.
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Why do a lot of people on the tube draw out the last word of a sentence? I can't cope with it!
a cage full of rats attached to one's abdomen seems much more brutal to me.
but that would be quite fast compared to starving to death
@@tanyabrown9839 True
Makes me think of the Iron Maiden. Anyone know if that was actually used? Hard to find historical texts regarding actual usage. And NO, not taking about the British metal band
Aye the Iron Maiden was indeed a horrific torture, and yes I am talking about having to listen to the album over and over being played by ones teenage kids.
Ha!!!!
UP THE IRONS!!
I watch these videos out of curiosity. In this case, I wonder at the many ways people devise to execute a said criminal. Through these hundreds of years, it has not stopped people from committing heinous crimes. I think I’ll just let law enforcement take care of it. I had no heard of this form of execution before. Thank you for the videos.
Is this the bloke from Untoldpast RUclips channel?
He is a legend
I understand that "brutal" is a subjective term but half assed, half truths are not. This is the second video I've seen that the truth was changed or altered for effect. History is what it is. It happened. There's no need to omit facts to tell the story. You have an obligation to the truth when telling history especially on RUclips. Millions of people use the content as educational.
Pray tell what was left out?
yeah, i don't get what you mean either..
"brutal" means ugly or repulsive. subjective of not, i would class a dying or dead body hanging overhead being pecked my crows etc. as a repulsive sight.
also, he's very good with details: using real contemporary testimony and detailed descriptions - all contextualised.
What truth was changed???
Why comment if don't explain what you're bitching about???
In West Berkshire we still have a Gibbet site, Coombe Gibet, I believe the picture of the Gibbet post high on the hill side in your video is the very same.
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actually,I think being broken on the wheel,then drawn and quartered alive was a bit nasty
A bit nasty? Are you British?
Wait they took em off the wheel and then ripped him apart ? I never heard of that one I thought they are 2 diff executions
A punishment reserved for pirates and highwaymen.
Pirates were gibbeted and then suspended alive, by a chain, below a bridge.
They didn't last long. For one reason, crows and other birds would get busy
and peck away at the victim's eyeballs and other vital parts. When the remains
were pulled up, little was left but some dry bones.
Highwaymen (land pirates) were suspended from trees above the roads
near the scene of their crimes.
I wonder if this is where they got the idea for giblets and gravy?
We should bring them back for channel migrants and put signs on them saying migrant as an example!
Sorry, you are decidedly unclear. From the content, gibbeting is not an "execution" method, but a way to display a corpse, except for a brief mentioning of someone being gibbeted alive, without examples or references.
I also had no idea what he was talking about, he rambled all over.
Read my post.
I'm no expert on gibbeting, but what I gathered from the narrator, it is always done to a live person.
So it is, in essence, a torturous execution, but with a long sustained display of the remains thereafter.
Yes he rambles a lot with his odd and repetitive reading cadence.
So in fact they hang those people in sight in a human cage that barely fits until they starve to death? Hope it wasnt winter...
@@1SqueakyWheel the narrator is wrong, "gibbetting" just means displaying a body, it was almost always done post-execution. It's hard to do it to a live person if they've only got a head left as was the case with Cromwell. A "gibbet" is just an old term for any instrument of execution so you'll often find places called things like "Gibbet Hill" because they used to have a gallows on top.
Punishment worse than the crime so who's the monster
It astonishes me that Ohio and Florida haven't adopted this method
I get Florida for just being Florida, but why Ohio?
You should check out the Caxton Gibbet, it’s still standing.
Is it still in use? (Just kidding!)
I don't know if I'd call this the 'most brutal'. I'd say scaphism would be worse the dehydration, starvation and exposure of the gibbet while also lying in your own shit and being eaten alive by insects.
For me...buried alive or that bronze bull thing, being slowly cooked
Man, that bronze bull.. or whatever it’s called. Horrible.. enough heat builds up till the Bull pushes steam/smoke thru it’s nose. Horrible
@@cwheremonster8870 And the foul aroma of you being cooked in it's belly
“The Boats”. That is the fruit of a diseased mind.
The most brutal method of execution I ever heard of was to nail a person to a long log and set the end closest to the feet on fire. The log would slowly burn from one end to the other.
That would be bad.
A town in County Roscommon, Ireland is called Knockrockery , or Hangman's Hill in Irish, Gatwick.The entire town was burned by the Black and Tans in 1921 during Irelands War of independence..
DAMN!!! i feel i been through that for a brief second anyway , as i used to drink everyday of my life i came in one night drunk and very cold so i put my frozen feet in front of the fire and passed out i woke to most pain ive ever been in my socks where melted to my feet my first thought was suicide it really was, people who have been burned all over there body my heart goes out to you it really does , but one good thing came from it its been 3 years since ive had a beer , well i never had a beer i had an 24 or 30 pack
Have a look at Chillingham Castle's methods. Such as a large pot to fit in a person,full of inward facing spikes. Once locked inside,the pot was rolled around the courtyard until the victim was dead. Brutal.
Feed you milk and honey and set you out bound in the middle of a swamp to be eaten alive by maggots is my personal favorite
I thought rarely was someone sentenced to actually starve to death in a gibbet as that was how they died. Gibbeting was to display and discourage as you say. It was just like spiking heads of the executed to the tops of castle walls. As many have said being crucified or burned alive were the worst ways to go
Nope. Crucifixion wins most brutal. A close second goes to the ancient Persians. A giant hollow bronze bull would be filled by an unlucky prisoner. Then sealed. Then a bonfire was lit beneath. The rest you can imagine.
Perillus, (Perilaus)..the person who invented it was the first person to be killed in it.
I vote for Impaling through you know where and slowly sinking on the spike.
What about the Salem Massachusetts witch trials where women were burned alive ? That was pretty racist. Turning a white witch black.
@@ericschneider8524 no one was burned in Salem, they were hung or pressed.
The male warlock in the Salem witch trials was executed by lying on the ground with a plank over him and the tons of boders stack on the plank till he was literally squashed like a bug- seems like a very bad way to be executed! Broken on the wheel wouldnt be a lot of fun either!
I've been near a body that had decayed for about a month at a mortuary it's definitely a smell you won't forget it will literally make you nauseous just thinking about it
I walked by a couch that someone died on and wasn't found for I think a month. I threw my guts up. Worst smell ever.
Interestingly dead sharks smell is bottled and one drop in the water with live sharks and whoosh they cant get away quickly enough
@@peetsnort use that as a deterrent to protect fisherman/divers
@@peetsnort I never heard of that, but that is a fun fact. I could see that working.
@@ericbitzer5247 I saw a video and the sharks all took off as if the water was electric. I think it was rotten shark liver oil
the breaking wheel was IMHO the worst method. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_wheel
especially when the person was literally braided within the wheel. This was only possible with multiple broken bones.
at one time it meant you would be strapped onto a lattice cross of heavy logs then a wagon wheel was used to break bones in multiple times in the arm's and legs then the main torso
Skinning alive????
death from lack of water would kill someone long before lack of food. I doubt anyone died of starvation.
Cages were also attached off the side of castles overlooking the Rhine River.
Good old Germany...
When it comes to most brutal, I know it's not medieval but I would like to know something about use (when, where, why) of the roman flagrum or scourge. All the vids on RUclips about it are from religious people, not historians.
By law criminals were too receive 10 lashes. Christ received 30 lashes because of the cruel/probably drunk guards. He knew that this would happen, so that it would be known that He endured the worst possible death of all time. This was in addition to the beatings, crowning of thorns, and crucifixion. The scourge had a handle and leather strips that had metal bars tied to the ends. The pieces of metal would often catch and cut to the bone. It would then be ripped out for another strike. The condemns hands were tied up high and the feet were secured so there could be no avoidance of the strikes.
There is a Wooden Gibbet out on the old Road from Cambridge to Bedford at a now Roundabout on the old London Road from Papworth to Caxton…… Caxton Gibbet and it is where a notorious Highwaymen was Gibbetted
Its weird to think that hundreds of years ago it was an execution site and now it's a McDonald's
All these "good people" who treated another being so brutally were no better than the criminal and extremely brutalized.
I only watch this channel to decide which method I want to subject boris to.
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Very interesting, I'm from Leicester and didn't know about that, so much for school education eh lol I'll have to do some more research onto that, thank you for the video.
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@@REBECCA12341 what?
Contrary to what this video states, not one person who was Gibbeted alive died of starvation...dehydration perhaps, but not starvation. My 7 year old son was able to figure this out on his own...
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Dying of starvation? So they had drinks available?
I like execution stories.
(Chuckles softly)
I don't know why. I just do.
(Shakes head, chuckles again). Good stuff.
So why do Crocs call those little decorative plugs "gibbets"?
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Take a narration course.
Imagine being the mother or sister, daughter or wife of someone who had been gibbeted and you had to slowly watch them starve to death then after that, just rot away Horrible!
The problem with the public executions and morbid public displays of the executed, is that it didn't prevent crimes. It just frightened children, and the people with the intellect of children.
Execution is a punishment not a deterrent. You can never deter people from committing horrible crimes( that's just human nature) but you can punish them by taking their life in turn and ridding society of vile murderous scum as opposed to feeding, clothing, housing and even providing medical care for the rest of their lives AT TAXPAYERS EXPENSE.
@@couchwarrior2449 Who will execute you, creepy?
@@couchwarrior2449 Cool, now explain the need to torture people first.
This type of brutality is generally reserved for AFTER a population is disarmed.
Bring this back .
God I hope Boris is watching this personal view
Guy Fawkes actually avoided most of his punishment, when the rope was placed around his neck for the "Hanged" portion of his sentence he leapt off the ladder and broke his neck. Thereby cheating the crowd of witnessing his agonies during the other portions.
The worst thing is the crows would start pecking away and the criminals would be too weak to stop them
Europe was so civilized back then...
look at the Ukraine not much has changed
@@stevenbrown2401don't die as a disbeliever
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The most brutal, is probably: Death by 1000 Cuts. This is very tame in comparison
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It was a bad business to be a criminal by then. Nowadays, it's so much easier to be a criminal. Maybe we should learn better from the past and reinstate the wonderful horrific practices. I bet it would reduce criminality to almost zero.
It must have been a horrific stench for a long time during decomposition.
Seeing the torture devices in the Tower of London made me nauseous.
Scaphism sounds like the worst to me
Gibbeting is clearly brutal but I still think the boats (schapism) takes the cake for the most brutal and horrifying method of execution.
I don't know but I think this is just a display method after death, not an execution method. I also think the Brazen bull, or being set atop a sharpened pike to slide down over time- al la Vlad the impaler, would be far worse
Brazen bull definitely one of the worst
And now we leave the worst of criminals walk free among us. We need to start swinging back to holding evil people accountable and allowing decent people to live without fear of said criminals.
I'd definitely think twice about doing a crime if the punishment would be gibbeting.
The brazen bull. Look it up, it gave me chills and I do not spook easily.
What would happen if somebody removed a gibbeted criminal? For example family, friends or the gang took action during a night and remove the gibbet from a highway?
That happened after 3 weeks with William Jobling at Jarrow Slake in County Durham on 31 August 1832. The body and gibbet chains disappeared and were never seen again.
The punishment in that case was 7 years transportation but no one was ever caught, not least, perhaps, because that execution and gibbeting did not enjoy popular support.
@@MrBulky992don't die as a disbeliever
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Being boiled alive wasn't a picnic either.
There's a gibets hill close to where i live on the way into Coventry.
Interesting video but that narration is irritating.
Some of this script was taken word for word off Wikipedia article "Gibbeting." come on man.
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