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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 143. Chapters: Asphyxia, Bestiarii, Blood eagle, Blowing from a gun, Brazen bull, Breaking wheel, Cement shoes, Colombian necktie, Crucifixion, Crushing (execution), Damnatio ad bestias, Death by boiling, Death by burning, Death... Viac o knihe

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 143. Chapters: Asphyxia, Bestiarii, Blood eagle, Blowing from a gun, Brazen bull, Breaking wheel, Cement shoes, Colombian necktie, Crucifixion, Crushing (execution), Damnatio ad bestias, Death by boiling, Death by burning, Death by sawing, Death flights, Decapitation, Defenestration, Disembowelment, Dismemberment, Drowning, Electric chair, Execution by elephant, Execution by firing squad, Execution by shooting, Execution van, Falling (execution), Flaying, Forced suicide, Fustuarium, Garrote, Gas chamber, Genickschussanlage, Gibbeting, Guillotine, Halifax Gibbet, Hanged, drawn and quartered, Hanging, Immurement, Impalement, Ishikozume, Keelhauling, Lethal injection, List of methods of capital punishment, List of people hanged, drawn and quartered, Maiden (beheading), Marooning, Mazzatello, Necklacing, Nine familial exterminations, Nitrogen asphyxiation, Poison, Premature burial, Republican marriage, Scaphism, Slow slicing, Snake pit, Starvation, Stoning. Excerpt: Crucifixion is a method of deliberately slow and painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead. It is principally known from antiquity, but remains in occasional use in some countries. Crucifixion was used among the Seleucids, Carthaginians, and Romans from about the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD. In the year 337, Emperor Constantine I abolished it in the Roman Empire out of veneration for Jesus Christ, the most famous example of crucifixion. It was also used as a form of execution in Japan for criminals, inflicted also on some Christians. A crucifix (an image of Christ crucified on a cross) is the main religious symbol for Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches, but most Protestant and Oriental Orthodox churches prefer to use a cross without the figure (the "corpus": Latin for "body") of Christ. Most crucifixes portray Jesus on a Latin cross, rather than any other shape, such as a Tau cross or a Coptic cross. Ancient Greek has two verbs for crucify: ana-stauro (¿¿asta¿¿¿¿), from stauros, "stake", and apo-tumpanizo (¿p¿t¿µpa¿¿¿¿) "crucify on a plank." together with anaskolopizo (¿¿as¿¿¿¿p¿¿¿ "impale"). In earlier pre-Roman Greek texts anastauro usually means "impale." For the instrument of crucifixion the word xylon (¿¿¿¿¿) was sometimes used, a word applied to any object made of wood. Liddell and Scott classifies its meanings under five headings: I. wood cut and ready for use, firewood, timber (in these senses the word is usually in the plural);II. piece of wood, log, beam, post or an object made of wood, such as a spoon, the Trojan horse, a cudgel or club, an instrument of punishment (a collar for someone's neck, stocks to confine his feet or to confine his neck, arms and legs, a gallows to hang him, or a stake to impale him), a table, a bench as in the theatre;III. a treeIV. a blockhead or a stubborn person;V. a measure of length.The English term cross derives from the Latin wor

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