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What are the most horrible punishments in history?
Throwing. Throw prisoners from high places, such as rocks, towers, city walls, churches, etc. There are also different stresses under the water droplets. Ancient Rome and Greece liked to throw people on stones; Egypt threw people into crocodiles, Persia threw people into sharp stones; In medieval Europe, people were thrown on spears.

Skin it alive. You don't need to explain, everyone understands. This kind of punishment exists in Asia and Europe. The practice in India is to roast the body surface with a small fire and then peel it. Ancient Greece and Rome also had this kind of punishment. This kind of punishment was not much in medieval Europe, but it was also recorded. Sometimes you can't tell a year from a year.

Cut your throat. Different from beheading, after cutting the throat, the head and body are not separated. It is a unique punishment in ancient Rome, even called "Roman punishment", but in ancient Rome, it is not the main means of death penalty, but a simple means, because it is difficult to become a national carnival festival.