Posted on 04/17/2023 1:21:22 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
This date was Easter Sunday in 1457, which would make it the date associated with one of the more memorable displays of theatrical brutality by Wallachian proto-vampire Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad Dracula or Vlad the Impaler.
Having only just ascended the less-than-secure throne of Wallachia, a frontier principality pinched between the Hungarian and Ottoman Empires, the 25-ish prince and onetime Ottoman hostage had a bone-chilling inauguration plan to shore up his security both internal and external.
He threw a big party in Targoviste for the nobles of the realm … and had a little surprise waiting for them. It wasn’t an Easter egg hunt....
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Why leave so early. Stick around!
Make impaling great again!
I read somewhere how he had a small wooded area cut down and had impaled folks all around him put up. Apparently if done right, folks don’t die right away.
I also read that in a castle he had a listening horn so he could hear folks below where they were tortured. Not sure if that’s true. But I’m checking it out this summer when I head to Europe.
He’s the type of guy that legends are made of.
Another, albeit pseudo execution took place today in 1792, of three cadavers who were the test subjects for the newly-invented method of inflicting the death penalty, the guillotine (named after its inventor, Guillotin).
Why I find it interesting is that it is just one in a long line of inventions, all the way up until today’s lethal injection, all of which were supposed to make execution more humane than the method it supplanted. Someday someone might write a song about fifty ways to whack your murderer, but there is no “humane” way to execute someone, so it is probably best to just do it the simplest way possible and be done with it.
Hahaha
Not a bad idea to file away for future reference.
Well, of the mainstream ways, I rather like firing squad. More dignified, quick death if the shooters are any good, no surprises.
Yup.
Hanging via breaking the neck.
Not saying it’s nice. But after all the BS with guillotines, electric chairs, gas chambers, a bullet in the head, and now lethal injection, it is in all reality the most reliable, clean, cheap, fastest and likely painless way to do it.
If you’re going to execute folks, hang them.
Hmm...disloyal government figures...corrupt officials...a ring of sharpened stakes all around the Beltway... I can dream, can’t I?
I’ve learned over the past 40 years that if you see the word “Wallachia” it’s going to mean big trouble for someone.
If you want to have a ‘pleasant’ execution for the convicted criminal just overdose them on heroin. Simple and painless. But then you have to have a doctor and someone to manufacture the heroin, so that would be shut down by blocking the manufacture of the drugs.
They should do “nitrogen asphyxiation”, where they just release 100% nitrogen atmosphere in the execution chamber. The body can’t tell if there isn’t enough oxygen and the person passes out painlessly. You could even collect the nitrogen on the premises from the air.
But that is too simple and easy for the politicians.
Child rapists should get a very basic “B” type execution, by baseball bat, blowtorch and boxcutter.
You forgot Bear Trap
Between their legs.
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