Crucifixion has to be the worst. It was designed deliberately to prolong the victim's suffering before they died. As unpleasant as it would be to have ones head crushed by an elephant, that would at least be over in a matter of seconds. Crucifixion often took days.
@@davidhazel5854 Yes I do recall a crucified person (tied to the cross, not nailed, lasted a week..(.they must have accepted hydration) ....and for sure perhaps the "worst" with the elephant thing would be on the clean-up crew. Yuck
@@theophilhist6455 I think I've read that people being crucified were offered water to keep them going. The point was to draw their suffering out as long as possible.
As execution methods of that day go, this was actually one of the most humane. Barring a mechanical failure, it was instantaneous death compared to the cruel, barbaric methods that were not instant. Sometimes maliciously, purposefully slow and painful.
@@Drew-bc7zj Apparently, someone else in comedic irony finished it with the add on, “Then it is very probable that you don’t understand the situation!” As to Apocalypse Now, that I don’t recall. Cheers!
Most brutal? Don't be absurd. The core part of the word crucifixion, crux, does not mean "cross", it is closest in meaning to gallows or gibbet. A crux was any device that was used for capital punishment by displaying the criminal's agony. The point of crucifixion was to make the entire process as painful, that is ex*cruc*iating, as possible. There were no kindly guards shoving spears in the side to hasten death. The victim was exposed on a post, the original Greek of the New Testament word means post or stake. The victim was typically tied to the post, not nailed, because iron spikes were extremely expensive. Timbers required for the European artistic representation of crucifixion are rare everywhere in the Mediterranean. Those on Golgotha would be permanent gibbets. The famous episode of the revolt of Spartacus where tens of thousands of rebels were crucified could not have used "Christian crosses" as depicted in the movies because there was not enough timber in all of southern Italy to spare. The rebels were fastened to trees and buildings along the route. The victims remained on the gibbets, to be pecked at by carrion birds, and gnawed by rodents. When their rotting corpses fell off the gibbet, possibly piece by piece, they were devoured by packs of dogs or pigs. There was no permission for friends of the deceased to gently take down the executed person and convey them for sacramental burial. The victims were non-persons.
These existed in Germany in the 15th C. Possibly earlier. Called Fahlbart. Or Falling Boards. The “blade” was originally made of heavy wood. Didn’t necessarily cut through the neck, but crushed the spine and would often separate the head. Later ones did add a steel blade. Msr. Guillotine merely designed a good and up to date version of these sorts of devices which had been around for centuries. He certainly didn’t invent it.
The French Reign of Terror was called that because it became a frenzy of death and many people who were merely objects of jealousy or held debts of another were condemned. In one case, the most beautiful young woman in the village was put to the guillotine because of nothing but the envy of women and the frustrated men who could not have her.
The blade on the maiden was rather blunt when compared to guillotine. Death however was not instantaneous, not even with the french machine. When the spinal cord is severed the body below the cut is paralyzed but the brain lingers until blood loss and oxygen depredation causes it to die. There are many accounts of severed heads responding to their names and even biting their executioners. The French outlawed the Guillotine in 1981.
I’ve seen much worse. But it seems the French weren’t so advanced in the guillotine as we had been led to believe. Scotland was ahead of their time with the Maiden , and it was convenient with its easy storage, the way it folded up.
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You keep repeating that the device took the head “clean off.” That would make it a quick and humane method of execution. Perhaps gruesome, but the very opposite of the most brutal.
I hadn't heard about this one, and thought the guillotine was wholly French. They are, of course, the ones we hear about the most. This lass would have been a nice companion for Burke and Hare, but her demise preceeded theirs.
A curious side note not often talked about due to it's "unbelievable" notion remains. The victims of such head taking devices can remain aware and conscious for 4 or 5 seconds after the separation. Imagine being a disembodied head looking at your executioner and your neck squirting the last few heart beats of blood on you before meeting your maker. Experiments would later see attempts at communicating with the severed head after separation. One claims that yelling the victims name repeatedly would get the head to open it's eyes 4 or 5 times over a 20 second period. Kinda changes the perspective of the whole practice and life's desire to per"severe".
@@max_headroom_1987 3-5 seconds of semi consciousness, a little like being given a general anaesthetic/fainting. Little in the way of 'pain', as the spinal column and central nervous system are removed from the brain stem.
@@gregsmith7821its more like 15-20 seconds. And you would be fully conscious for most of it. You'd hear the blade crash down and then the bottom of the basket would look like its coming at your face as your head falls into the basket. But correct, you wouldn't feel any pain.
@@michaelarnold1897 I disagree on the timing. Lots of personal experience of choking holds, practicing judo. Both giving and receiving, any form of correctly applied naked choke and you are out in seconds, often not even enough time to realise and 'tap' a submission. In that case, no pain, just a slight sensation of a build up of pressure in the head, along with disiness, before lights out. I genuinly beleive that any signs of life are just nerves firing, post mortem. I bet the bodies were noted to twitch on occasion but no one considers this to be a sign of life.
A several times great uncle, Sir Godfrey McCulloch of Myretoun, (Galloway) knight and baronet, was executed on the Maiden at the Mercant Cross on March 6 1697 for murder. His brother John and his wife emigrated to Ulster soon after and John’s descendants ultimately ended up in North America. At least one plaque in the Grass Market wrongly states that John was executed. There is a reference to this event in Sir Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and another in A History of Dumfries and Galloway by Herbert Maxwell.
Please, please please, take some elocution coaching! Your delivery detracts from the excellent, informative subject content, in which we the viewers are unable to concentrate on the actual subject matter because of the automaton style and monotone!
You mention the Halifax gibbet, which was a permanent structure that was similar. However if the condemned could extract himself from under the falling blade and then run to the parish boundary, about 500 metres away, they could get away and not be pursued, effectively exiled forever . Two people did this, however one unwisely returned 7 years later, was apprehended and didn't escape a second time.
I actually live in Halifax, the Gibbet was first used for the beheading of John of Dalton in 1286. The Halifax Gibbet used for beheadings until 1650, Oliver Cromwell considered the Halifax Gibbet to be a too grisly method of execution, so he banned the use of it. Records of executions by the Halifax Gibbet were not kept until 1538, the record shows the names of 56 men and women that were beheaded. The actual number is thought to be nearer 100 including those executed before the recording of beheadings began. There is a 15 ft high wooden replica of the Halifax Gibbet on the original site near the bottom of Gibbet Street, the actual blade that was used on the Gibbet is on display at the Bankfield Museum which is just outside Halifax town centre. The blade is similar to that of an axe blade, it was mounted on the bottom of a large wooden block. The Halifax Gibbet pre-dates the Scottish Maiden by four centuries.
We should bring this out of retirement, especially since the mass genocide of the human race, it would definitely serve as an example to others considering doing the same thing.
What a clickbait! "Most BRUTAL Execution Method?" Considering all alternatives at the time, it was the most humane. I had to dislike due to the misleading title.
@@davidtuer5825 Thanks for catching the typo. For that you shal be rewarded. And here we go.... The Duke of Monmouth wes the half brother of James the first. He was accused of treason, mostly for being a possible contender for the throne. He was sentenced to death, by the maiden. The executioner was brined to screw up the job. Instead of a clean decapitation, he just got a nasty wound. The job had to be finished by hand. The nearest available blade was a carpenter's adz. .the blade was removed and the executioner had to take multiple whacks with the all blade. It took twenty one slices before hos head was removed.
Most brutal? Maybe your definition of "brutal" is different than mine. Drawn and quartered. Burned at the stake. Crushed under rocks. All those are more brutal in my book.
I;ve read somewhere the difference between the french guillotine and others is that the french one falls on the back of the neck, others they were laid on their backs and the blade fell at the front, so they would see the blade coming down.
Far from brutal, it would have been quick. It looks to be a better design than the guillotine. If the impact was fast enough the blade would not need to diagonal. The French blade was prone to "hanging up" and not falling fast enough.
The US Federal Government has executed several in recent years and several states do executions. Most today are done by a series of drugs and often cause torturous deaths trying to find blood vessels to inject the drugs, not working quickly as ideal sedatives are not legally available for such use, bad or non-medical staff used. Of course some want the executed to suffer for their sins with great pain. Some have suggested using pure nitrogen or other gases, but poison gas was used in the 1920's to 1960's ended due to the connection of the use of gas with mass executions by Germany during WWII and not 'humane'. Firing squads, hanging and electrical 'chairs' were also used but also had humanity and practical flaws. Maybe the guillotine and Scottish Maiden were less inhumane than others.
@@davidtuer5825 On second thoughts the scotch jobs blade is straight so it delivered a hard chop, but the french is angled, so I suppose the guillotine delivered a more civilised "slice"..:)
I can only imagine the actual physical horror and gore of the guillotine ( and beheading in general). It is reasonable to deduce that it must have been a highly gory scene.One of the first few engravings you show is of a guillotine platform with a horse pulling the rope that raises the blade, and the only personage on the platform near the doomed person looks like a priest.Even with the efficiency of the method , there was still the reality of human physiology- and I image those standing or watching nearby had to be routinely soaked in the blood of the convicted spurting from the immediately severed aortas in that second or so after separation. Is there any info regarding the actual implementation and what it was like to watch from a scientific standpoint?
That has been studied with biomechanical standins, and noted during 20th and 21st century executions of this type. Some studies used rats to analyze nervous system reactions.
Why should this device have been the most gruesome Exekution device? There were several way more brutal ones. Although i would'nt be on this here either.
Every video he puts up says that. If he did one on killing with kindness it would say, "Killing with kindness- History's Most Brutal Execution Method?"
I seen this in the museum , its all black and spindly! I felt bit weird, and a bit sick seeing it, like it was this horrible bit of art but then i remembered im not in a gallery , it actually killed people! Also in that room there were thumb screws and other torture tools used in witch trials, that probably didn’t help me feel any good. That said i don’t think this was meant to be a brutal killing device, think it was quick way to die.
Nothing "brutal" about the guillotine - it was super-fast and 100% efficient. These click-baiting titles irritate me intensely; I have unsubscribed from his channel
You don't explain why it was 'History's most brutal execution method'. It seems quite tame compared to hanging or shooting or chemical injection. Also, the narrator needs to improve his presentation/pronunciation; it is annoying to say the least.
I think you may need to look up the term "brutal". No upvote, no follow, no notifications set - on account of the misleading title, the hyperbolic terminology and the naming of a guillotine, who's entire purpose was to be quick and humane being used in conjunction with that title and your exceptionally monotone voice. (edit) - in fact I gave it a thumbs down
The way it could be assembled and disassembled relatively easily gives it kind of an “IKEA” feel.
With a name like “Bløckeknökkerøffer”?
@@bob_the_bomb4508I always read the IKEA product names with the accent of the Muppets Swedish Chef.
Just remember to read the instructions.
are you saying it was almost impossible to assemble and disassemble ?
@@NoahSpurrier Every single time. You're not alone, my guy.
'Brutal' is added as clickbait to the description of so many of these videos.
So the Scots were _ahead_ of the French.
And Halifax was AHEAD of all of them.
'Ahead' is the operative word!
...yeah but sounds like they quit while they were a head !
The Romans had a beheading device.
@@alisdairmclean8605 the automata gladius caputa?
Historical note: the last execution in France by guillotine was in 1977
The last public execution in France was 1933.
Being broken on the wheel would've been far worse than a quick beheading.
Worst execution? Not. It's either crucifixion or the use of an elephant to crush the criminal's head.
Crucifixion has to be the worst. It was designed deliberately to prolong the victim's suffering before they died. As unpleasant as it would be to have ones head crushed by an elephant, that would at least be over in a matter of seconds. Crucifixion often took days.
@@davidhazel5854 Yes I do recall a crucified person (tied to the cross, not nailed, lasted a week..(.they must have accepted hydration) ....and for sure perhaps the "worst" with the elephant thing would be on the clean-up crew. Yuck
@@theophilhist6455 I think I've read that people being crucified were offered water to keep them going. The point was to draw their suffering out as long as possible.
Impalement was gruesome too if it was done right, the person could last up to 3 days.
At least it would've been quick. There were, and still are, many, many, much more gruesome methods of execution used around the world...
I don't think a guillotine (because that's what it is) is the "most brutal execution method".
That’s true. At least you’re out in the open air…
@@bob_the_bomb4508 quick
@@pauljmn9135 I’m here till Thursday: try the veal :)
A lot better than the fire , cage , hang draw and quarter so I should think it was way ahead
If it's an instant death, it's not brutal. Only the build up or going wrong.
As execution methods of that day go, this was actually one of the most humane. Barring a mechanical failure, it was instantaneous death compared to the cruel, barbaric methods that were not instant. Sometimes maliciously, purposefully slow and painful.
True, but 'most humane execution methods' doesnt get the clicks
Lol....he uses the same drscription on every video about execution methods.
“If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs and blaming it on you,” Rudyard Kipling
I was wondering what Dennis Hopper was babbling about in Apocalypse Now.
He says it so fast I only understood the first part. LOL
@@Drew-bc7zj Apparently, someone else in comedic irony finished it with the add on, “Then it is very probable that you don’t understand the situation!” As to Apocalypse Now, that I don’t recall. Cheers!
You'll be the tallest person in the room
This guy loves the word Brutal
In Henry the 8ths time somebody was boiled alive over the course of several hours, that seems far worse to me.
You're right. Unlike burning, with scalding the nerve endings remain intact.
Most brutal? Don't be absurd. The core part of the word crucifixion, crux, does not mean "cross", it is closest in meaning to gallows or gibbet. A crux was any device that was used for capital punishment by displaying the criminal's agony. The point of crucifixion was to make the entire process as painful, that is ex*cruc*iating, as possible. There were no kindly guards shoving spears in the side to hasten death. The victim was exposed on a post, the original Greek of the New Testament word means post or stake. The victim was typically tied to the post, not nailed, because iron spikes were extremely expensive. Timbers required for the European artistic representation of crucifixion are rare everywhere in the Mediterranean. Those on Golgotha would be permanent gibbets. The famous episode of the revolt of Spartacus where tens of thousands of rebels were crucified could not have used "Christian crosses" as depicted in the movies because there was not enough timber in all of southern Italy to spare. The rebels were fastened to trees and buildings along the route. The victims remained on the gibbets, to be pecked at by carrion birds, and gnawed by rodents. When their rotting corpses fell off the gibbet, possibly piece by piece, they were devoured by packs of dogs or pigs. There was no permission for friends of the deceased to gently take down the executed person and convey them for sacramental burial. The victims were non-persons.
These existed in Germany in the 15th C. Possibly earlier. Called Fahlbart. Or Falling Boards. The “blade” was originally made of heavy wood. Didn’t necessarily cut through the neck, but crushed the spine and would often separate the head. Later ones did add a steel blade. Msr. Guillotine merely designed a good and up to date version of these sorts of devices which had been around for centuries. He certainly didn’t invent it.
Having some drunken bum hacking away at your head with and axe seems to me far more brutal….
I would say impaled was worse
And you were supposed to give him (sic) a tip and thank him for his service.
The French Reign of Terror was called that because it became a frenzy of death and many people who were merely objects of jealousy or held debts of another were condemned. In one case, the most beautiful young woman in the village was put to the guillotine because of nothing but the envy of women and the frustrated men who could not have her.
Drawn and quartered would have been far worse. This would have been over quick.
Quickly.
The blade on the maiden was rather blunt when compared to guillotine. Death however was not instantaneous, not even with the french machine. When the spinal cord is severed the body below the cut is paralyzed but the brain lingers until blood loss and oxygen depredation causes it to die. There are many accounts of severed heads responding to their names and even biting their executioners. The French outlawed the Guillotine in 1981.
Ironic that the device of death that probably killed more men than women was given a female name !
It's not ironic at all, I am living in a retirement home and our proportion of men to women is about 10%.
Hanging, drawing, and quartering is much worse than the maiden.
I’ve seen much worse. But it seems the French weren’t so advanced in the guillotine as we had been led to believe. Scotland was ahead of their time with the Maiden , and it was convenient with its easy storage, the way it folded up.
They were indeed a-head of their time 😅
The french had a folding guillotine also. Their's had wheels, so it could be carted about, from town to town.
nice pun A HEAD of their time.
@@RussHess-j2s Yes, we got it.
Imagine how many people were executed by sword to the extent that the sword was 'worn out',
Isn't life a bowl of cherries.
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Na. Lemons are better.
You keep repeating that the device took the head “clean off.” That would make it a quick and humane method of execution. Perhaps gruesome, but the very opposite of the most brutal.
“A hot stake is better than a cold chop”. The Three Stooges. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.
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Depends where the hot stake is applied.
We need to bring this back into service.
I hadn't heard about this one, and thought the guillotine was wholly French. They are, of course, the ones we hear about the most. This lass would have been a nice companion for Burke and Hare, but her demise preceeded theirs.
It was actually made by an Irishman... Gil O'Tine.
@@timhinchcliffe5372I've heard of him. His descendant Paddy O'Stones helped me improve my garden.
@@ryanmac8829 😁
A curious side note not often talked about due to it's "unbelievable" notion remains. The victims of such head taking devices can remain aware and conscious for 4 or 5 seconds after the separation. Imagine being a disembodied head looking at your executioner and your neck squirting the last few heart beats of blood on you before meeting your maker. Experiments would later see attempts at communicating with the severed head after separation. One claims that yelling the victims name repeatedly would get the head to open it's eyes 4 or 5 times over a 20 second period. Kinda changes the perspective of the whole practice and life's desire to per"severe".
Hardly what I'd call brutal. You'd never feel a thing by such a quick beheading.
The head remains conscious for a while afterwards
@@max_headroom_1987 3-5 seconds of semi consciousness, a little like being given a general anaesthetic/fainting. Little in the way of 'pain', as the spinal column and central nervous system are removed from the brain stem.
@@gregsmith7821its more like 15-20 seconds. And you would be fully conscious for most of it. You'd hear the blade crash down and then the bottom of the basket would look like its coming at your face as your head falls into the basket. But correct, you wouldn't feel any pain.
@@michaelarnold1897 I disagree on the timing. Lots of personal experience of choking holds, practicing judo. Both giving and receiving, any form of correctly applied naked choke and you are out in seconds, often not even enough time to realise and 'tap' a submission. In that case, no pain, just a slight sensation of a build up of pressure in the head, along with disiness, before lights out.
I genuinly beleive that any signs of life are just nerves firing, post mortem. I bet the bodies were noted to twitch on occasion but no one considers this to be a sign of life.
Not if you close your eyes@@michaelarnold1897
A several times great uncle, Sir Godfrey McCulloch of Myretoun, (Galloway) knight and baronet, was executed on the Maiden at the Mercant Cross on March 6 1697 for murder. His brother John and his wife emigrated to Ulster soon after and John’s descendants ultimately ended up in North America. At least one plaque in the Grass Market wrongly states that John was executed. There is a reference to this event in Sir Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and another in A History of Dumfries and Galloway by Herbert Maxwell.
Please, please please, take some elocution coaching! Your delivery detracts from the excellent, informative subject content, in which we the viewers are unable to concentrate on the actual subject matter because of the automaton style and monotone!
Hear hear... 🙏
I had a guillotine when I was a child.
Darn things are dangerous.
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That title is click bait. This was designed to be as quick and clean as possible.
Where's your sense of humour??
@@davidtuer5825 Oh yes!!! I forgot executions CAN be fun :) :) :)
@@kimness7796 Well you are certainly involving yourself in the historical review of executions.
Great tool for today's politicians !
You mention the Halifax gibbet, which was a permanent structure that was similar. However if the condemned could extract himself from under the falling blade and then run to the parish boundary, about 500 metres away, they could get away and not be pursued, effectively exiled forever . Two people did this, however one unwisely returned 7 years later, was apprehended and didn't escape a second time.
That seems more civilized than lethal injection, which is screwed up just about every time.
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True, much more brutal.
the Halifax Gibit was Estimated to have been installed during the 16th century before the Scottish version
I actually live in Halifax, the Gibbet was first used for the beheading of John of Dalton in 1286. The Halifax Gibbet used for beheadings until 1650, Oliver Cromwell considered the Halifax Gibbet to be a too grisly method of execution, so he banned the use of it. Records of executions by the Halifax Gibbet were not kept until 1538, the record shows the names of 56 men and women that were beheaded. The actual number is thought to be nearer 100 including those executed before the recording of beheadings began.
There is a 15 ft high wooden replica of the Halifax Gibbet on the original site near the bottom of Gibbet Street, the actual blade that was used on the Gibbet is on display at the Bankfield Museum which is just outside Halifax town centre. The blade is similar to that of an axe blade, it was mounted on the bottom of a large wooden block. The Halifax Gibbet pre-dates the Scottish Maiden by four centuries.
We should bring this out of retirement, especially since the mass genocide of the human race, it would definitely serve as an example to others considering doing the same thing.
This is humane compared to dying the most miserable and prolonged death..... old age.
The device shown at 00:30 appears to be the Halifax gibbet.
Yes I agree .
@@skylarkman2000 I believe the original blade is in Bankfield Museum.
Yep the blade is in Bankfield Museum
I kinda think drawing and quartering or impalement would be much more brutal.
Betcha Mary Stuart was wishing they'd used that on her after the executioner got nervous and hit the back of her head with the first blow.
What a clickbait! "Most BRUTAL Execution Method?" Considering all alternatives at the time, it was the most humane. I had to dislike due to the misleading title.
We've discussed this before. The most brutal is being sawn in half crotch upwards
No mention of Jacob, Duke of Monmouth? Such a gruesome story.
Don't just leave at that, tell us about it, I presume you meant the Dyke of Monmouth?
@@davidtuer5825 Thanks for catching the typo. For that you shal be rewarded. And here we go....
The Duke of Monmouth wes the half brother of James the first. He was accused of treason, mostly for being a possible contender for the throne. He was sentenced to death, by the maiden. The executioner was brined to screw up the job. Instead of a clean decapitation, he just got a nasty wound. The job had to be finished by hand. The nearest available blade was a carpenter's adz. .the blade was removed and the executioner had to take multiple whacks with the all blade. It took twenty one slices before hos head was removed.
we need these now to stop the crime wave
Most brutal? Maybe your definition of "brutal" is different than mine.
Drawn and quartered.
Burned at the stake.
Crushed under rocks.
All those are more brutal in my book.
I;ve read somewhere the difference between the french guillotine and others is that the french one falls on the back of the neck, others they were laid on their backs and the blade fell at the front, so they would see the blade coming down.
Far from brutal, it would have been quick. It looks to be a better design than the guillotine. If the impact was fast enough the blade would not need to diagonal. The French blade was prone to "hanging up" and not falling fast enough.
The US Federal Government has executed several in recent years and several states do executions. Most today are done by a series of drugs and often cause torturous deaths trying to find blood vessels to inject the drugs, not working quickly as ideal sedatives are not legally available for such use, bad or non-medical staff used. Of course some want the executed to suffer for their sins with great pain. Some have suggested using pure nitrogen or other gases, but poison gas was used in the 1920's to 1960's ended due to the connection of the use of gas with mass executions by Germany during WWII and not 'humane'. Firing squads, hanging and electrical 'chairs' were also used but also had humanity and practical flaws. Maybe the guillotine and Scottish Maiden were less inhumane than others.
Lunch meat slicer ? 😂
"Most brutal form of execution!?" I would much rather die that way than to be given a legal injection. THAT is brutal!
You ever had an operation that required anesthetic? Better than without.
I don't get it, why is it any more "brutal" than the french guillotine?
Click bait to get you to watch the video
It's not!!
@@davidtuer5825 On second thoughts the scotch jobs blade is straight so it delivered a hard chop, but the french is angled, so I suppose the guillotine delivered a more civilised "slice"..:)
I've touched the blade. Its black iron, pocked and looks like it has some serious history
I can only imagine the actual physical horror and gore of the guillotine ( and beheading in general). It is reasonable to deduce that it must have been a highly gory scene.One of the first few engravings you show is of a guillotine platform with a horse pulling the rope that raises the blade, and the only personage on the platform near the doomed person looks like a priest.Even with the efficiency of the method , there was still the reality of human physiology- and I image those standing or watching nearby had to be routinely soaked in the blood of the convicted spurting from the immediately severed aortas in that second or so after separation. Is there any info regarding the actual implementation and what it was like to watch from a scientific standpoint?
That has been studied with biomechanical standins, and noted during 20th and 21st century executions of this type. Some studies used rats to analyze nervous system reactions.
A bit like going over the top at the Somme.
The Reign of Terror. Not France’s best moment.
Halifax in West Yorkshire had one.
It's Scottish and should be used in Scotland. How about doing for the snp?
Silly old Tory
I can't understand what you are saying but thanks anyway.
It's not Edin-bra! Honest to goddess............
Yep the Halifax Gibit was up and running in 16th century we have street call Gibit street where it stood
When it comes to certain people brutal never
The Persians had the best execution device called the mare of steel
we need this back for our government
You did say aHead of the French
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Why should this device have been the most gruesome Exekution device? There were several way more brutal ones. Although i would'nt be on this here either.
Every video he puts up says that. If he did one on killing with kindness it would say, "Killing with kindness- History's Most Brutal Execution Method?"
Click bait. All of his videos are the most brutal ever. Including killing using a feather to tickle someone to death.
Note the *?* 🤔
I guess you could call it the”Iron Maiden “
Check out what an actual 'iron maiden" was. Far more horrific
Good job. This is the way to make an interesting topic incredibly boring.
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Do the snp know about this?
What’s up with the way you are talking? Just speak normally.
Good idea to show contemporary footage. Context.
Could have shown us the blade and it moving.
100 a century. Not many executions
It's a shame we can' use it on the SNP Mass MurderingTraitors!
I seen this in the museum , its all black and spindly! I felt bit weird, and a bit sick seeing it, like it was this horrible bit of art but then i remembered im not in a gallery , it actually killed people!
Also in that room there were thumb screws and other torture tools used in witch trials, that probably didn’t help me feel any good.
That said i don’t think this was meant to be a brutal killing device, think it was quick way to die.
Why brutal?
More effective than axe or sword.
Nothing "brutal" about the guillotine - it was super-fast and 100% efficient. These click-baiting titles irritate me intensely; I have unsubscribed from his channel
I wish you wouldn't repeat so much. I wish you wouldn't repeat so much. It's irritating. It's irritating.
You think thats nasty what happens after death is far worse and eternal to boot.
I know of some people that would be very deserving of such a tool….
You don't explain why it was 'History's most brutal execution method'. It seems quite tame compared to hanging or shooting or chemical injection.
Also, the narrator needs to improve his presentation/pronunciation; it is annoying to say the least.
Where did you learn to speak English?
I think you may need to look up the term "brutal".
No upvote, no follow, no notifications set - on account of the misleading title, the hyperbolic terminology and the naming of a guillotine, who's entire purpose was to be quick and humane being used in conjunction with that title and your exceptionally monotone voice.
(edit) - in fact I gave it a thumbs down
BS.
So….er…not Scotland ‘s most brutal execution method then?!🤷♂️🤦♂️🙄….good clickbait though mush 👏👏🤡🤡
No, that is trying to make out what Alec Ferguson is saying.
@@davidtuer5825 er…..ok….whatever that means 🤔🙈🙌
@@Tommy-Atkins It's just a joke Tommy.