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[Method]: Pendulum
[Description]: A type of machine with an axe head for a weight that slices closer to the victim's torso over time. (Of disputed historicity.)
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[Method]: Garrote
[Description]: Used most commonly in Spain and in former Spanish colonies (e.g. the Philippines), used to strangle or choke someone.
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[Method]: Disembowelment
[Description]: Often employed as a preliminary stage to the actual execution, e.g. by beheading; an integral part of seppuku (harakiri), which was sometimes used as a form of capital punishment.
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[Method]: Boiling to death
[Description]: This penalty was carried out using a large cauldron filled with water, oil, tar, tallow, or even molten lead.
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[Method]: Impalement
[Description]: The penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by complete or partial perforation of the torso.
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[Method]: Molten or Heated Metal
[Description]: Supposedly Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pavlo Pavliuk were killed in this fashion. The execution method is associated with those who were thirsty for wealth by pouring down the neck or for those who wished to be king by pouring metal on the head.Alternately, a heated crown and scepter can be placed on the head to make the victim to appear as a parody of a King. In Ukrainian this is called death by slapstick
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