14 Facts About Crucifixion

Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the victim is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross or beam and left to hang until eventual death from exhaustion and asphyxiation.

Crucifixion has been used in parts of the world as recently as the twentieth century.

Crucifixion says that the shape of the letter T was that of the wooden instrument used for crucifying.

Crucifixion wrote that the condemned would have severe difficulty inhaling, due to hyper-expansion of the chest muscles and lungs.

Crucifixion was generally performed within Ancient Rome as a means to dissuade others from perpetrating similar crimes, with victims sometimes left on display after death as a warning.

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Crucifixion was intended to provide a death that was particularly slow, painful, gruesome, humiliating, and public, using whatever means were most expedient for that goal.

Crucifixion was typically carried out by specialized teams, consisting of a commanding centurion and his soldiers.

Crucifixion involves affixing or impaling the body to a beam or a tree trunk.

Crucifixion was introduced into Japan during the Sengoku period, after a 350-year period with no capital punishment.

Crucifixion was used as a punishment for prisoners of war during World War II.

Crucifixion's legs were found broken, possibly to hasten his death.

Crucifixion deduced from the form of the scratch, as well as from the intact wrist bones, that a nail had been driven into the forearm at that position.

Crucifixion is still used as a rare method of execution in Saudi Arabia.

Crucifixion's captors kept him in the dark, beat him, cut off a piece of his ear, and nailed him to a cross.