60: 8 Brutal Execution Methods from Ancient Times

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The waist chop, slow slicing, being thrown to the beasts, and more. Today, we're traveling back in time to check out 8 of the most brutal execution methods from ancient times

TW: Suicide, torture

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0:00.0	It's that feeling.
0:04.0	When the energy and the room shifts,
0:08.0	when the air gets sucked out of a moment
0:11.0	and everything starts to feel wrong.
0:15.4	It's the instinct between fight or flight,
0:18.8	when your brain is trying to make sense of what it's seeing.
0:25.0	It's when your heart starts pounding. Welcome to Heart starts pounding.
0:30.0	A podcast of horrors, hauntings, and mysteries.
0:34.0	I'm your host, Caitlin Moore.
0:36.4	Gather round, my darkly curious friends,
0:39.0	because today we are taking quite the dark journey.
0:43.2	Capital punishment has come up a few times
0:45.8	in Hard Starts Pounding episodes.
0:47.7	In the episode about Harvard's dirty secrets,
0:50.5	the professor who killed the businessman on campus was hanged for his crimes and the
0:55.3	upper echelon of Boston all got handwritten invitations to witness his execution.
1:01.4	In the episode about the blunt family bombings, the suspect tried to sell tickets to his own
1:06.8	execution on eBay, only for the sale to be shut down and his sentence commuted. And in the ritualistic human sacrifice
1:15.2	episode, well people were sentenced to be ritualized. Whether obvious or
1:21.4	not, capital punishment has been somewhat of a running theme.
1:26.3	So I wanted to take some time today to look back on eight different methods of execution
1:31.8	from the ancient world. We'll hear about slow slicing,
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