[CaptainCrunch]

Crucifixion is an incredibly painful way to go and you tend to last for a fairly long time. The pain of getting nails driven through your wrists (usually, palm crucifixions was done more rarely because the victims usually pulled their hands off of the spikes). All of your weight is on your hands and feet, and as you slumped forward you would start to asphyxiate and instinctively pull yourself straight against your nailed down limbs.

A particularly cruel add on was the shattering of the shoulder blades, which meant that when you slumped forward you were jarred awake by the pain of broken bones grinding together.

The wheel was cruel, but usually the victim died during the act of being softened, the screaming individuals surviving long enough to be put up for the crows tends to be a bit of a urban legend. One of the other key things was that the victims of those particular punishments (Broken on the wheel), were drunk to the point of unconsciousness as a mercy of the squeamish jailers.

The most horrific execution method was prescribed for Treason, where a victim was hung not to kill but to inflict pain, then his stomach was gashed open and his intestines were ripped out and burned while the victim usually was conscious and able to watch. Then the executioner quartered the limbs. Usually the victim pumped up on adrenaline caused by this public display survived through the quartering before he was mercifully beheaded.

The Spanish Donkey was another method, where the condemned straddled a wooden horse which came to a sharpened end, and weights were tied to the feet so that the victim was slowly torn in half. Death was quick or slow depending on the weigh decided on by the judge.

Forgot about the Iron Maiden, however the spikes were strategically placed to missed vital organs, and the victims usually lasted for two agonizing days of being pinned in that device.