The Worst Punishments in History

Yakuza finger removal also known as yubitsume it's a ritual done to gain forgiveness after a member committed an offense to someone else in his group and it consists of amputating portions of One's Own little finger to show sincere apology and remorse to the other I've put this one as the least painful because it doesn't usually cause lifelong lasting pain and it isn't deadly unlike the brutal ones further down the list bastinado bastinado consists of beating the victim with a light Rod knotted cord or lash exclusively on the feet unlike most types of fogging it is

meant more to be painful than to cause actual injury even though if done too harshly or for too long it might cause the victim to not be able to walk anymore this one is also not deadly pitch capping pitch capping involves pouring hot pitch or tar into a conical paper cap and forcing it onto the victim's head the pitch was allowed to cool and the cap was ripped off removing skin and tissue from the victim's scalp scarring him for life it wasn't usually done with the intention of killing but deadly infections after this weren't that

common elephant's foot this punishment also known as gungar was mostly used in Asia specifically India and it consisted of killing the victim by crushing him with an elephant there were two variations of this if the victim was lucky his head would be placed on a pedestal and the Elephant would crush it instantly killing him this wasn't that painful because the victim would die instantly but the second variation wasn't as forgiving some Royal members wanted to sit down and enjoy a long show so they ordered the elephant Riders to train the elephants to walk over nonvital

Parts first such as the legs and arms the person would get crushed over and over before the elephant actually walked over his head and killed him Po auli in ancient Rome those who would kill their own father were subjected to PO aully it was a death penalty that consisted of being sewn up in a leather sack with a mix of live animals including a dog snake monkey and a chicken and then being thrown into water Roman decimation in ancient Rome when military units or a large group were guilty of capital offenses such as cowardice Mutiny

or desertion they went through the process of decimation a cohort of roughly 480 soldiers that needed to be punished was divided into groups of 10 and each group Drew Lots randomly the soldier who picked the shortest straw had to be killed by his nine friends Often by stoning clubbing or stabbing while the nine surviving ones had to stay outside the Fortified security of the camp for some time since the killed victim was chosen randomly all soldiers in the group were potentially liable for execution regardless of how guilty they were blowing from a gun blowing from

a gun is a method of execution in which the victim is typically tied to the mouth of a cannon which is then fired resulting in instant death a description of what happens was given by an English soldier in the 19th century and he said that the victim's head goes straight up into the air for about 40 or 50 ft the arms fly off right and left high up in the air and fall at around a 100 yard distance while the legs drop to the ground beneath the muzzle of the gun it's this low on the

list because the victim probably doesn't feel a thing as his death is instant basil II's blind Journey B Emperor basil II reportedly captured 15,000 bulgarians during the Battle of ciden so he decided to use them as a message to their Homeland he divided the prisoners into groups of 100 and then he had 99 out of every 100 blinded with the 100th man being blinded in only one eye so that he could still lead the other 99 back home Bulgarian SAR Samuel died of a heart attack on October 6 10:14 reportedly due to seeing his soldiers

blinded caster oil poop barrels making someone drink a lot of C oil caused stomach pain and made them so sick that they could no longer hold their poop together they would then put the person in a big human-sized barrel and remove them when the person confessed this could even go as far as leaving the person to drown in their own body fluids inside the barrel if he didn't cooperate urement urement was used both as an execution method and as a lifelong imprisonment method it consisted of putting someone in an enclosed space in really tight space

such as behind a wall for the rest of his life if it was used as an execution method the person would be left to starve to death while if it was used as imprisonment they would regularly give the victim food rack the person would be forced to lay on a rectangle-shaped wooden rack that stretched the victim's Body by pulling the arms and legs in opposite directions it caused incredible pain and could lead to dislocated Limbs and torn ligaments it was mainly used as a method to get information but it could also be used to tear

the victim's limbs out and leave him bleeding to death tarring and Feathering tarring and Feathering is a form of public torture where a victim is is stripped naked or stripped to the waist while wood tar sometimes hot is either poured or painted onto the person after that the victim would have feathers thrown onto him or he was rolled around on a pile of feathers so that they stuck to the Tar this would not only cause extreme Burns to the victim's skin permanently scarring him but also psychologically humiliate him in public as he was meant to

look like a giant chicken walking around the street choke pair it was a metal tool that was put into someone's mouth or booty hole and then made bigger on purpose the tool would stretch the tissue to the point of no return Aztec live heart removal when the Aztec sacrificed people to hosle the sun god the victim would be placed on a sacrificial Stone and the priest would then cut through the abdomen with an obsidian or Flint Blade the heart would be torn out still beating and held Towards the Sky in honor of the sun god

heretic's Fork it's a collar with two sets of metal forks at each end one set was placed under the chin and the other at the sternum and the device was secured around the neck this forced the victim to keep their head raised leading to severe discomfort and sleep deprivation the person would be asked questions or just be left there while the fork slowly pierced through their neck and jaw and this lasted until the victim could no longer hold their head raised causing the fork to pierce through rat's cup a method attributed to the Roman Emperor

Nero involved tying a cup filled with hungry rats to the victim's stomach and then applying heat to the bottom forcing the rats to burrow through the victim's body to escape in some parts of South America they used a variation of this method called the rectoscope which consisted of inserting living rats into a victim's rectum through a tube forcing them to make their way through the victim's body to get out Catherine's Wheel an execution method where the victim's limbs were tied to a large wheel and then struck with a hammer or iron bar breaking their bones

in multiple places the wheel was placed on display later on often leaving the victim to starve boiling alive the victim would be lowered into a large container with a boiling liquid such as oil gradually and slowly the first exposed Parts would be the extremities such as fingers and toes which have lots of nerve endings and cause incredible pain then the skin muscles and fat softened and liquefied due to the heat while internal organs and the flesh got boiled from the outside making this a slow and agonizing process in another variation which is thought to be

even more painful and long the victim would be lowered into a normal temperature liquid which would be gradually heated until it started boiling Keel hauling Keel hauling was a severe Maritime punishment where a sailor was tied to a rope and dragged underwater from one side of the ship to the other passing under the ship's Keel if the person did not drown or get vital damage from the rusty and sharp wooden body of the ship itself they would just do it again until the person was no longer alive it was feared for its brutality sawing when

used as an execution method the victim would be hanged upside down to make the blood flow to the Head increasing the time the person was conscious the Executioner would then divide the victim vertically into two halves starting from the groin and moving upwards hanged drawn and quartered this method was used to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain in Ireland and it consisted of multiple steps the convicted traitor was tied to a wooden board and dragged behind a horse to the execution site there he was almost hanged to death then

mutilated and had his organs removed before being beheaded and his body divided into four parts just in case he was still alive these remains were often displayed in well-known places across the country like London Bridge to warn others about the consequences of being a traitor glass tra this method wasn't always deadly but in my opinion it deserves this spot because of how brutally painful it sounds it's the method of inserting a glass rod into a man's ere Willie and then smashing it with a hammer causing the glass rod to fragment into multiple small pieces that

shattered all over the insides bamboo through booty hole a bamboo would be put inside a person's booty hole and it would be left there the bamboo would grow really quickly inside the man causing incredible pain it was sometimes left until it exited from the other side Spanish donkey this was a sharp angled wooden device on which the victim was forced to sit straddling it like a donkey with weights attached to their feet this would increase pressure and pain on the body often causing severe injury to the legs and spine until the victim was ripped apart

by their body weight Brazen bull a metal statue shaped like a real-sized bull was used to lock someone inside and then heat it up with fire underneath the person inside would feel extreme heat and pain while being burned alive and it was meant to scare others by showing how bad the punishment could be there were special pipes to make the victim breathe which also made the screams hearable for the crowd resulting in a bull-like sound the steam would leave from the Bull's nose for extra realism impalement the brutal part of impaling like Crux aixion is

that the victim tortured himself in a famous variant he was set up high on a stake so that it didn't actually penetrate anything vital so long as he stayed up on his toes so he could keep it from going any deeper so long as he kept his own weight on his feet when the victim would get tired he would slip a little further and when he felt the pain he would scramble up again on the already aching and exhausted muscles only to repeat this process out of exhaustion a little later and so on until something

vital got pierced another variant consisted of the Judas chair a torture device featuring a pyramid-shaped seat where the victim was placed at the top with ropes used to lower and suspend their body weight onto the sharp Apex the chair would slowly rip the person apart flaying flaying was a gruesome method where the skin was removed from the body while the victim was still alive this extreme form of torture was used to cause intense slow pain and suffering eventually leading to death through shock or infection the skin lacking major blood vessels did not cause rapid blood

loss so victims could remain conscious and endure prolonged Agony it was often considered a meticulous process requiring precision and skill from the Executioner and rather than removing the skin and pieces cultures sought methods to Flay the victim more efficiently and completely Sometimes using substances like boiling water to facilitate the process blood eagle this one was a brutal ritual where the victim's ribs were cut from The Spine and spread out to resemble wings while the lungs were pulled through the openings causing a slow agonizing death it's short but it's one of the most brutal ones in

my opinion lingi also known as Death By A Thousand Cuts it was a famous method used in China to prolong the suffering for as long as possible there were multiple variations of this method even though almost all of them included cutting the skin deep enough to cause incredible pain but not deep enough to allow the victim to lose blood in one variation the victim was restrained and an executioner would pull knives out at random each with a body part on it left forearm right thigh left foot neck Etc each time he'd pull a knife out

he would make a cut on that body part this would continue until the Executioner pulled out the knife with the heart on it and that's when he stabbed the victim through the heart in another variation they would tie a fishnet tightly around someone's body and cut off the pieces of skin that popped up in the holes of the net in the most brutal version they would bury someone up to their neck make a cross-shaped cut at the crown of of the head peel the skin back and pour mercury in the wound the Mercury through its

weight would separate skin from flesh and as the person struggled to unbury themselves they would eventually leave their skin behind in the hole scaff ISM this one is considered by many to be the worst execution method in this punishment The Condemned person was placed inside a boat or between two boats lying on their back with their arms and legs protruding through holes they were force-fed large amounts of milk and honey which induced severe diarrhea and their entire body was smeared with the same mixture this this made them attractive to rodents bugs wasps bees flies and

whatever other animals lived near the lake they would eat and bite at the victim's flesh and when the next morning arrived the boat would be brought back to the coast and they would force feed him another gigantic meal of milk and honey also placing it on him once more this was done on a daily basis to prolong the punishment for as long as possible it was reported that the rats would usually try to go into the person's booty hole and that the method was so long that it seemed to have no end with a person

surviving 17 days this person reportedly had his entire face completely covered with wasp and his flesh was rotting away filled with swarms of parasites and worms all while being covered in his own filth if you want to discuss this video or suggest an idea for the next one join my Discord Link in the description