People who had hard deaths/fates

Perillos of Athens

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazen_bull

Peter Stumpp

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stumpp

he was put to a wheel, where "flesh was torn from his body", in ten places, with red-hot pincers, followed by his arms and legs. Then his limbs were broken with the blunt side of an axehead to prevent him from returning from the grave, before he was beheaded and his body burned on a pyre. His daughter and mistress had already been flayed and strangled and was burned along with Stumpp's body. As a warning against similar behavior, local authorities erected a pole with the torture wheel and the figure of a wolf on it, and at the very top they placed Peter Stumpp's severed head.

>getting fucked by your own terrible invention.

Balthasar Gerards

He was executed for the assassination of William I of Orange. The torturing included being whipped with a lash. After this his wounds were smeared with honey, so a goat could lick it up (the goat didn’t cooperate though). He was forced to sleep with his hands and feet bound together. A weight of 300 pounds was attached to his big toes for half an hour. He was fitted with well-oiled, too small shoes made of uncured dogskin. He was put in front of a fire, so the heat contracted the shoes and crushed his feet. The remainder half burned skin was torn off. His armpits were branded. He was dressed in a shirt soaked in alcohol and they poured burning bacon fat over him. If this was not enough, they placed nails between the flesh and nails of hands and feet.

The magistrates decreed that the right hand of Gérard should be burned off with a red-hot iron, that his flesh should be torn from his bones with pincers in six different places, that he should be quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his bosom and flung in his face, and that, finally, his head should be taken off

György Dózsa

He was a Hungarian rebel in the 1400s, who was eventually caught, tortured, and executed along with his followers. He was captured and condemned to sit on a heated smoldering iron throne with a heated iron crown on his head and a heated scepter in his hand (mocking at his ambition to be king). While Dózsa was suffering, a procession of 9 fellow rebels, who had been starved beforehand, were led to such throne. In the lead was Dózsa’s younger brother, Gergely, who was cut in three before Dózsa despite Dózsa asking for Gergely to be spared. Next, executioners removed hot pliers from fire and forced them into Dózsa’s skin. After pulling flesh from him, the remaining rebels were ordered to bite where the hot iron had been inserted and to swallow the flesh. Those who refused, about 3 or 4, were simply cut up which prompted the remaining rebels to do as commanded. In the end, Dózsa died on the throne of iron from the damage that was inflicted while the rebels who obeyed were let go without further harm.

>Gérard is said to have remained calm during his torture. On 14 July 1584, Gérard was executed.[7][8]
I remember this. What a fucking iron man, dude.
>REMAINED FUCKING CALM

>the remaining rebels were ordered to bite where the hot iron had been inserted and to swallow the flesh. Those who refused, about 3 or 4, were simply cut up
Those 3-4 rebels were true friends ;_;

Something slightly less far back but still pretty bad.

Deborah Gail Stone, a worker at America Sings, was crushed to death by a rotating wall in front of an audience.

youtube.com/watch?v=CQxCkDe7nXU

video is from shortly before the incident.

Sounds like it was her own fault for not paying attention when she was briefed on the job.

Byford Dolphin is a drilling rig, known most notably for an explosive decompression accident in 1983 that killed five workers and badly injured one. All divers were exposed to the effects of explosive decompression. Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined one of them was exposed to the highest pressure gradient, violently exploding due to the rapid and massive expansion of internal gases. All of his thoracic and abdominal organs, and even his thoracic spine, were ejected, as were all of his limbs. Simultaneously, his remains were expelled through the narrow trunk opening left by the jammed chamber door, less than 60 centimetres (24 in) in diameter. Fragments of his body were found scattered about the rig. One part was even found lying on the rig’s derrick, 10 metres (30 ft) directly above the chambers. The deaths of all four divers was most likely instantaneous.

He was probably just really curious about whatever new, batshit crazy method of torture they were going to come up with next.

Pretty well known one next: Mithridates.

[The king] decreed that Mithridates should be put to death in boats; which execution is after the following manner: Taking two boats framed exactly to fit and answer each other, they lay down in one of them the malefactor that suffers, upon his back; then, covering it with the other, and so setting them together that the head, hands, and feet of him are left outside, and the rest of his body lies shut up within, they offer him food, and if he refuse to eat it, they force him to do it by pricking his eyes; then, after he has eaten, they drench him with a mixture of milk and honey, pouring it not only into his mouth, but all over his face. They then keep his face continually turned towards the sun; and it becomes completely covered up and hidden by the multitude of flies that settle on it. And as within the boats he does what those that eat and drink must needs do, creeping things and vermin spring out of the corruption and rottenness of the excrement, and these entering into the bowels of him, his body is consumed. When the man is manifestly dead, the uppermost boat being taken off, they find his flesh devoured, and swarms of such noisome creatures preying upon and, as it were, growing to his inwards. In this way Mithridates, after suffering for seventeen days, at last expired.

Marco Antonio Bragadin

The Ottomans had agreed to allowing the Italians to surrender. Everything had been going well until, at the surrender ceremony on August 5 where Bragadin offered the vacated city to Mustafa, the Ottoman general, after initially receiving him with every courtesy, began behaving erratically, accusing him of murdering Turkish prisoners and hiding munitions. Suddenly, Mustafa pulled a knife and cut off Bragadin's right ear, then ordered his guards to cut off the other ear and his nose. There followed a massacre of all Christians still in the city, with Bragadin himself most brutally abused. After being left in prison for two weeks, his earlier wounds festering, he was "dragged round the walls with sacks of earth and stone on his back; next, tied to a chair, he was hoisted to the yardarm of the Turkish flagship and exposed to the taunts of the sailors. Finally he was taken to the place of execution in the main square, tied naked to a column, and flayed alive." Bragadin's quartered body was then distributed as a war trophy among the army, and his skin was stuffed with straw and sewn, reinvested with his military insignia, and exhibited riding an ox in a mocking procession along the streets of Famagusta. The macabre trophy, together with the severed heads of general Alvise Martinengo, Gianantonio Querini and castellan Andrea Bragadin, was hoisted upon the masthead pennant of the personal galley of the Ottoman commander, Amir al-bahr Mustafa Pasha, to be brought to Constantinople as a gift for Sultan Selim II.

>tfw I live 50 feet away from the supposed place of his martyrdom

Robert-François Damiens aka colossal understatement man.

Fetched from his prison cell on the morning of 28 March 1757, Damiens allegedly said "La journée sera rude" ("The day will be hard"). He was tortured first with red-hot pincers; the hand with which he had held the knife during the attempted assassination was burned using sulphur; molten wax, molten lead, and boiling oil were poured into his wounds. He was then remanded to the royal executioner, Charles Henri Sanson, who harnessed horses to his arms and legs to be dismembered. But Damiens' limbs did not separate easily: the officiants ordered Sanson to cut Damiens' joints with an axe. Once Damiens was dismembered, to the applause of the crowd, his reportedly still-living torso was burnt at the stake."

2nd one for the Krauts.

The leaders of the Munster rebellion in 1536 were sentenced to execution by being torn apart by red hot tongs for 60 minutes. They were tied to a stake and then literally had the flesh torn off their arms, legs, chest until eventually it got down to their tendons, muscles and intestines. They were not allowed to faint or be unconscious for any of this. Any time that they passed out was subtracted from their 60 minutes ... and then they would be revived so it could continue. The last person being executed after watching the other 2 guys endure this, tried to commit suicide while tied to the post watching and waiting. When it was all over their remains were thrown in cages especially built for them and raised up over the church for the entire town to see. The cages remain in place until this day and anyone visiting Germany can see them

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Okay, so this one isn't really historical but while looking up some interesting deaths I came across this.

telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1428408/Suicide-by-DIY-guillotine-and-an-ingenious-timing-device.html

That is fucking dedication.

One more before I pop to the shops. This one is just fucked.

Sokushinbutsu or self-mummification...

The process of self-mummification is long and arduous, taking at minimum three years of preparation before death. Central to this preparation is a diet called mokujikigyō, literally “tree-eating training.” This diet can be traced through Shugendō to the Taoist practice of abstention from cultivated grains.

Whole article is here.
atlasobscura.com/articles/sokushinbutsu

Witold Pelicki

>Witold Pelicki

Some people just don't want a quiet life.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauri_Törni

The body was so fucked that Pompey was afraid it would offend the gods

he just really hated commies

a true hero

explosive decompression is fickin nutds. Imagine having to clean that shit up

Google explosive decompression images and you don't need to imagine.

3rd image is supposedly from the Byford Dolphin incident.

William Wallace probably would not be shouting "Freedom" by the time the English were done with him.

Following the trial, on 23 August 1305, Wallace was taken from the hall to the Tower of London, then stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield.[28] He was hanged, drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging, but released while he was still alive, emasculated, eviscerated and his bowels burned before him, beheaded, then cut into four parts. His preserved head (dipped in tar) was placed on a pike atop London Bridge. It was later joined by the heads of the brothers, John and Simon Fraser. His limbs were displayed, separately, in Newcastle, Berwick, Stirling, and Perth. A plaque stands in a wall of St. Bartholomew's Hospital near the site of Wallace's execution at Smithfield.

>When Andronikos arrived he found that Isaac had been proclaimed Emperor.[1] The deposed Emperor attempted to escape in a boat with his wife Agnes and his mistress, but they were captured (though some claim that Andronikos survived and managed to escape to the then-self-proclaimed Kingdom of Cyprus).[1] Isaac handed him over to the city mob and for three days he was exposed to their fury and resentment,[1] remaining for that period tied to a post and beaten. His right hand was cut off, his teeth and hair were pulled out, one of his eyes was gouged out, and, among many other sufferings, boiling water was thrown in his face, punishment probably associated with his handsomeness and life of licentiousness.[1] At last he was led to the Hippodrome of Constantinople and hung by his feet between two pillars. Two Latin soldiers competed as to whose sword would penetrate his body more deeply, and he was, according to the representation of his death, torn apart.[9] He died on September 12, 1185.[1] At the news of the emperor's death, his son and co-emperor John was murdered by his own troops in Thrace.[9] Andronikos I was the last of the Komnenoi to rule Constantinople, although his grandsons Alexios and David founded the Empire of Trebizond in 1204. Their branch of the dynasty was known as the "Great Komnenoi" (Megaskomnenoi).[10]

completely justified

>One of his poems entitled "Dwie matki" (Two mothers) in which Rumel described his love of Poland and Ukraine, was published in a popular Płomyk magazine in 1935 (issue No. 28).[3]

>In early summer 1943, when the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), together with local Ukrainian nationalists, began a campaign of massacres of Polish civilians in Volhynia, Rumel, who spoke Ukrainian fluently, was assigned to get in touch with leaders of the UPA and start talks, which would bring an end to the massacres. The order was issued by Kazimierz Banach, chief of staff of the Bataliony Chłopskie and a delegate of the Polish government-in-exile in Volhynia.[4]

>On 7 July 1943, Rumel, together with officer Krzysztof Markiewicz (aka Czort), both dressed in military uniforms, aided by guide Witold Dobrowolski,[4] contacted the Ukrainians. They were officially representing the Polish government.[1] However, instead of peace talks, a different fate awaited them.[5] Both were brutally tortured for three days. Then, on Saturday 10 July, Rumel was tied to four horses and his body ripped apart.[6][7] Markiewicz and Dobrowolski were killed in the same manner in the village of Kustycze, near the Volhynian town of Turzyska.[8] The next day, Sunday 11 July 1943, was the bloodiest day yet of the Volhynian massacres, when armed Ukrainians attacked Polish settlements and churches, killing thousands of people, including infants, women and the elderly.

This guy is clearly still a controversial figure.

I need to read more about William I.

>Pulled apart by horses
>In 1943

Fucking hipster executioners.

all of 16th to 18th century dutch history is amazing

For such a small area, it certainly punched above its weight for a long time.

God, I hope this isn't true