With another method involving confining a person alive behind a wall, immurement was essentially a mentally torturous slow-burn way of killing someone. A report from a Chinese newspaper in 1914 fixated an instance when immurement involved entombing one in a heavy iron-bound coffin, where sitting upright or lying down was impossible. She would beg for food, and he could do nothing about it, as that would go against another culture’s criminal justice system. A notable moment in history, published in the 1922 issue of the National Geographic journal, involves the inability of a travel photographer, Albert Kahn, upon witnessing a Mongolian woman committed into a small box for adultery. The convicted person would be placed into an enclosed space with no way to escape, with the message to the victim being imprisoned for life, which shall no longer be extended, upon dying from dehydration or starvation. King Henry VIII of England also used this method on those who would fatally poison someone.Ĭonfined Alive (Immurement) Immurement of a nun (fictitious depiction in a painting from 1868) Similarly, in the Middle Ages, mere coin forgers would receive the fate to die by this death, which was mainly practiced in France, Germany, and the Holy Roman Empire between the 13th and 16th centuries. Although it is often considered that the most torturous executions where victims can feel every step and stay conscious were reserved for those who committed the most gruesome crimes and horrendous murders, historical records state that this method was used on thousands of Christians by Emperor Nero. Then, the complete destruction of the fatty tissue underneath would come into effect, followed by a continuous boiling everything underneath.
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Some would remain conscious through the initial stages of the excruciating sensations of their outer skin layer getting dissolved. This slow and agonizing method of execution involved the torturously dragged-out lowering of the victim into boiling oil, water, wax, or even wine or lead. Boiling Bandit Ishikawa Goemon was boiled to death for the attempted assassination of warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 16th-century Japan.
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