#*executions

Medieval Execution and Torture: Impalement

↳  Impalement on a pole was one of the most gruesome methods of execution, often used during the Middle Ages. A criminal was forced to sit on a thick, sharpened wooden pole. The pole was then slowly raised upright and the criminal was left to gradually slide further down the pole only by his or her own weight. The pole then emerged through victim’s chest, shoulder or neck. Sometimes, it could take more than three days for a person to finally die.