oh, the inhumanity
A macabre encyclopedia of humanity’s most creative cruelties
Strangulation
Strangulation is the oldest execution method because it requires nothing but permission and pressure. Across empires and centuries, it served as a quiet sentence, designed to erase a life without spectacle, blood, or debate.
Garroting
They called it mercy, but it sounded like a screw tightening in the dark. The condemned sat in a plain wooden chair, an iron collar closing around the throat, and with each slow turn the world narrowed to pressure, silence, and the tidy brutality empires preferred to call civilization.
Blood Eagle
A Viking’s final flight — not on wings of glory, but on the cruel poetry of bone and ritual.