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A Look Back At The Disturbing Practice Of Gibbeting Throughout history, criminals have been subjected to punishments that now seem needlessly grisly and barbaric. Notable among these was the gibbet, which punished criminals in not only life but also death.⠀ ⠀ See the photos and take a look inside the disturbing practice of gibbeting Gibbeted bodies would stink so badly that nearby residents would have to shut their windows to keep the wind from carrying the bodies’ stench into their homes. Throughout history, criminals have been subjected to punishments that now seem needlessly grisly and barbaric. Notable among these was the gibbet, which punished criminals not only in life but also in death. Gibbeting was the practice of locking criminals in human-shaped cages and hanging them up for display in public areas as a warning to others. The gibbet itself refers the wooden structure from which the cage was hung. In most cases, criminals were executed prior to being gibbeted. However, crimin...

The head of the slain Swedish king Charles XII, killed in 1718 by a projectile while inspecting his troops' lines during the siege of Fredriksten in Norway.  The shot struck the left side of his skull and exited from the right. These photos were taken during a 1917 autopsy  The head of the Swedish king dead Carlos XII, killed in 1718 by a projectile as he inspected the lines of his troops during the siege of Fredriksten in Norway. The shot hit the left side of the skull and out the right. These photos were taken during an autopsy of 1917. The siege of Fredriksten (Norwegian: Beleiringen av Fredriksten festning) was an attack on the Norwegian fortress of Fredriksten in the city of Fredrikshald (now Halden) by King Charles XII of Sweden. While inspecting his troops' lines, Charles XII was killed by a projectile. The Swedes broke off the siege, and the Norwegians held the fortress. Along with the Treaty of Nystad three years later, the death of Charles XII marked the end of the i...

Stuck in a Jam On April 14, 2014, An Australian rock climber spent the night trapped in the boulder problem known as Squeeze Rock at Mount Arapiles. If you don’t like tight squeezes, this problem is not for you. The 24-year-old was forced to spend the night in “very cold” conditions as rescuers worked to free him.  Luckily for the 24-year-old, and unlike Ralston who had to amputate his own arm, his girlfriend was on hand to call authorities and he survived the 10 hours ‘wedged’ inside the rock with his limbs intact. Ambulance Victoria officers said the man was “extremely hypothermic” and said shampoo, olive oil and other slippery liquids were used to rescue him. The man’s hips got stuck around 10 p.m. on Monday night and was freed around 8 a.m. the next morning. State Emergency Services volunteers, Victorian police, the Country Fire Authority and local rescue specialists were on hand to help paramedics with the rescue. It was worried the climber would fall victim to crush syndrome,...

This man's name is (Shao Ling Li), for 30 years, he's been applying for a visa He filed 15 immigration applications to Canada, but all of his applications were rejected He asked to join the Chinese Navy and was refused He and 124 people applied for a software company, 122 were accepted and he was one of the two rejected. He filed a file to join the Chinese police with 20 candidates and he was the only one rejected. He didn't despair and struggled, so he thought to enter e-marketing and create a website like Amazon, but he didn't have the capital, so he sold his wife gold and took a bank loan, and after many years of years of success bore him, the site failed and now he's in jail. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO .

Inside the Repulsive World of 'Hurtcore', the Worst Crimes Imaginable Liezy margallo, girlfriend and culprit of peter scully, Australian paedophile and murderer, and my personal nominatee for most evil person ever. Left a rest photo. Right screenshot from one my torture videos " the couple created. Their most infamous video is " Daisy's Destruction  JUST about anything evil can be bought on the dark web, as Eileen Ormsby found researching her new book The Darkest Web. This new extract details the capture of Australian pedophile Peter Scully and child porn promoter Matthew Graham Torment and humiliation used to be a very public spectacle. But in the modern world there are new ways to be cruel, and many of them are conducted from behind a computer screen. It started for "Victim 5" in 2013, when she placed an advert on Gumtree saying she was looking to buy a pet dog. One of the emails the 15-year-old schoolgirl received was strange. It was from Liz, an arti...

Death of Georgia Teen Found in Gym Mat Was 'Weird Accident,' Sheriff In 2013, the body of 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found upside down in a standing, rolled-up gym mat in a Georgia high school. Police initially ruled his death an accident, but the teenager's parents suspected a cover-up.⁠ ⁠ A second autopsy later showed blunt-force trauma — and a few missing organs. On January 11, 2013, the body of Kendrick Johnson (October 10, 1995 – January 10, 2013) was discovered inside a vertical rolled-up mat in the gymnasium of Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia, United States, where he was a student. After a preliminary investigation and autopsy concluded that Johnson's death was accidental, his family had a private pathologist conduct a second autopsy which concluded that he died from blunt force trauma. On October 31, 2013, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that his office would open a formal review into Johnson's death. On June 20,...

After 75 years, last public hanging haunts Kentucky city (photos) 26-year-old Rainey Bethea has his last meal, before being publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, August 13, 1936. Bethea, convicted of rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman, was the last person killed in a public execution in the United States. Rainey Bethea (c. 1909[b] – August 14, 1936), was the last person publicly executed in the United States. Bethea, who confessed to the rape and killing of a 70-year-old woman named Lischia Edwards, was convicted of her rape and publicly hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky. Mistakes in performing the hanging, and the surrounding media circus, contributed to the end of public executions in the United States. Little is known about Bethea's life before he arrived in Owensboro in 1933. Born around 1909 in Roanoke, Virginia, Bethea was an African-American man orphaned after the death of his mother in 1919 and his father in 1926. He worked for the Rutherford family and lived in their bas...

The Dyatlov Pass Incident: The Mysterious 1959 Tragedy That Left 9 Dead On January 27, 1959, nine Soviet college students embarked on a journey into the Northern Urals. When they were all found dead, some had major chest fractures that could only have been caused by an immense force, comparable to that of a car crash. And in the most gruesome instance, one was missing her tongue, eyes, part of the lips, as well as facial tissue, and a fragment of her skull bone.⁠.. Read story  In January of 1959, nine young Soviet hikers died under mysterious circumstances while trekking through the Ural Mountains in what's now known as the Dyatlov Pass incident. In January 1959, a 23-year-old hiker named Igor Alekseyevich Dyatlov led a journey to reach the peak of Otorten, a mountain in the Northern Urals of Soviet Russia. The young man brought a team of eight experienced hikers, many from the Ural Polytechnical Institute, along with him for the adventure. Before he left, Dyatlov had told his spor...

Sole survivor of brutal 1973 slayings finds strength to tell her story In November 1973, 13 years old Sandra Cheskey endured a night of pure hell at the hands of three brothers. She was able to identify her assailants and helped put them behind bars. But sadly, rather than receive the hero treatment, cheskey was treated like a criminal in her own community The 1973 Gitchie Manitou murders involved an attack on a group of five teenagers at Gitchie Manitou State Preserve in Lyon County, Iowa. Four of the teenagers were killed and a fifth was kidnapped and raped. Allen, James, and David Fryer were later convicted of the crimes and sentenced to life in prison. The attack took place on November 17, 1973. On the evening of November 17, 1973, five teenagers from Sioux Falls, South Dakota were attacked by a group of three brothers. Four of the teenagers were killed and one was kidnapped and raped. Those killed were Roger Essem (male, 17), Stewart Baade (male, 18), Dana Baade (male, 14), and Mi...

See The Punishment Soldiers Gave These Guys (photos) The elders say a child that says his mother will not sleep. Sleep will be a nightmare for him as well. These are pictures of punishment being meted by the soldiers to these guys Their offence was not known same as their location. See more pictures below...  A corporal punishment or physical punishment is a punishment that is intended to cause physical pain to a person. When it is inflicted on minors, especially in home and school settings, its methods may include spanking or paddling. When it is inflicted on adults, it may be inflicted on prisoners and slaves. Physical punishments for crimes or injuries, including floggings, brandings, and even mutilations, were practised in most civilizations since ancient times. With the growth of humanitarian ideals since the Enlightenment, such punishments are increasingly viewed as inhumane in Western society. By the late 20th century, corporal punishment had been eliminated from the legal s...

Octopus hitches a ride on bottlenose dolphin Octopus hitching a ride on a bottlenose dolphin!! Who eventually dislodged it and ate it After being targeted by the dolphin, the quick-thinking octopus tucked itself out of harm’s way to avoid being eaten, before hitching a ride above water The astonishing site was captured by scientists observing four bottlenose dolphins by the island of Kalamos, off the west coast of Greece, as part of Ionian Dolphin Project After jumping out of the water three times, in a bid to shake off the intrusive octopus, the dolphin later returned to its group without showing any obvious signs of distress I have never seen anything like this,’ biologist Joan Gonzalvo told New Scientist ‘My hypothesis is that the dolphin might have attacked – tried to prey on the octopus – and somehow to avoid it the octopus just attached to the dolphin’s belly ‘Whales have been reported on numerous occasions to breach as a strategy to remove parasites and barnacles....

The Torture of Isabel Rodriguez .” (1870). The Torture of Isabel Rodriguez... Read story Isabel Rodríguez, also known as Isabel Rodrigo, was a Spanish nurse, explorer, and doctor of the 16th century. She was the "mother" of 16th century military medicine In the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Edith Isabel Rodriguez was seen as a complainer. an emergency room nurse told Los Angeles County police who brought in Rodriguez early May 9 after finding her in front of the Willowbrook hospital yelling for help. The 43-year-old mother of three had been released from the emergency room hours earlier, her third visit in three days for abdominal pain. She’d been given prescription medication and a doctor’s appointment Turning to Rodriguez, the nurse said, “You have already been seen, and there is nothing we can do,” according to a report by the county office of public safety, which provides security at the hospital When author Anna Lanyon looked for i...

The Rugged Utase Squad Sawing off an enemy head You should know that even the Natzis(Allies) were churned by their brutality.. Read story The Ustaše (pronounced [ûstaʃe]), also known by anglicised versions Ustasha or Ustashe, was a Croatian fascist and ultranationalist organization active, as one organization, between 1929 and 1945, formally known as the Ustaša – Croatian Revolutionary Movement (Croatian: Ustaša – Hrvatski revolucionarni pokret). Its members committed regicide of the King of Yugoslavia, while later they also murdered hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma as well as Croatian political dissidents during World War II in Yugoslavia The ideology of the movement was a blend of fascism, Roman Catholicism and Croatian ultranationalism. The Ustaše supported the creation of a Greater Croatia that would span the Drina River and extend to the border of Belgrade The movement emphasized the need for a racially "pure" Croatia and promoted genocide against Serbs...

Blowing from the gun - A cruel and messy form of execution. Blowing from a gun is a method of execution in which the victim is typically tied to the mouth of a cannon which is then fired, resulting in death.  An Iranian convict whose name is unknown, placed with his back in front of the mouth of a cannon. This was done in the 1890s and in a few moments, his body will be scattered to bits... Read story  In March 1764, a native officer secretly planned to persuade the men under his command to defect to an enemy force. But unfortunately for him, his plan was discovered and he was blown from a cannon in front of his soldiers. One nursing mother became so starved that her production of milk stopped, and her infant was dying. She chose to kill it, and eat it. Once the Portuguese general became aware of her act of cannibalism, he ordered her blown with a gun, but in this particular instance, the clergy and the principal citizens dissuaded him from carrying out the act. Blowing from a...

The Bitch of Buchenwald Also known as  Beast of Buchenwald", the "Queen of Buchenwald" and the "Red Witch of Buchenwald", Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who was an overseer at Nazi concentration camps run by her husband, commandant Karl-Otto Koch. Working at Buchenwald (1937–1941) and Majdanek (1941–1943), Koch became infamous for her sadistic, brutal treatment of prisoners. While at Buchenwald, Koch allegedly engaged in gruesome experiments; selected tattooed prisoners were murdered and skinned to retrieve the tattooed parts of their bodies. This was allegedly done to help a prison doctor, Erich Wagner, in his dissertation on tattooing and criminality... Read story  In 1940, she built an indoor sports arena, which cost over 250,000 reichsmarks (approximately $62,500), most of which had been seized from the inmates. In 1941, Karl-Otto Koch was transferred to Lublin, where he helped establish the Majdanek concentration...

Egyptian Samiha Hamid, 30 was condemned of killing her husband. "I hated my husband", She told Cairo Police. She wouldn't say anything more. Her hatred had led her to strangle him in his sleep.. Read story  to dismember his body and scatter the bits in bags which she dropped into the Suez Canal. To cover up the crime she then burned down her house. When she was executed at Bab-el-Chalk Prison in Cairo on Sunday, January 11th, 1987, she became the first woman to be hanged in Egypt for 40 years. She strugg led with warders as she mounted the gallows and as she was placed under the noose she cursed all men and spat at the execution officials. On the picture below she is standing barefoot on the trapdoor, while her legs are being tied together. The executioner holds a black hood and a British-style noose in his hand. Egypt uses a measured drop. It's supposed to be enough to break the neck, or at least to knock her out by the impact of the noose permitting her to strangle ...