The methods of execution by crucifixion
In short Crucifixion was used by the Persians, Phoenicians and Carthaginians and became the symbolic punishment of Rome, reserved for
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Death by burning at the stake
In short Death by burning is a very ancient penalty, already found in the Code of Hammurabi and the Bible.
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The ghosts of Poveglia Island
In short Poveglia is an island in the southern Venetian Lagoon, inhabited since the early Middle Ages and devastated during
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The Poena cullei, penalty of the sack
In short The poena cullei, the “penalty of the sack”, was the Roman punishment for parricides: the condemned, flogged and
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Full list of ancient tortures
In short A guide to ancient tortures divided by category: with water (ordeals, boiling, Chinese water torture), with fire (burning
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Sharon Carr, a sadistic killer at 12
In short In June 1992 in Camberley, England, 12-year-old Sharon Carr randomly stabbed 18-year-old Katie Rackliff to death with 32
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Noah Crooks, at 13 he kills his mother with 22 rifle shots
In short On 24 March 2012, in a farmhouse near Osage, Iowa, 13-year-old Noah Crooks killed his mother Gretchen, a
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Satan goes to trial, the story of David Glatzel and Arne Cheyenne Johnson
In short In 1980 in Brookfield, Connecticut, the family of 12-year-old David Glatzel turned to the demonologists Ed and Lorraine
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The murder of Pippa Bacca, the travelling bride
In short Pippa Bacca, pseudonym of Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, was an artist from Milan and the niece of Piero
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Erzsébet Báthory, the Blood Countess
In short Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), a Hungarian noblewoman, was accused with four servants of torturing and killing hundreds of girls
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The Hot Water Ordeal
In short In the hot water ordeal the accused had to fish a ring or a coin out of the
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Solari Parravicini, the Nostradamus of the Americas
In short Benjamín Solari Parravicini (1898-1974) was a successful Argentine painter, best known for the more than a thousand “prophetic”
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