• AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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    11 hours ago

    Crucifixion strikes me as the kind of punishment where they would endeavour to ensure the person would survive up there for a decent while — to prolong their suffering, and the display of said suffering. It’s a grim method of execution.

    • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 hours ago

      It was pretty common to put a small board a little bit above the butt, placed so that you can’t really sit on it without hurting your feet, but preventing that you die too soon.

      I read up the current wikipedia article for this, and apparently suffocation isn’t thought of as cause of death anymore since 2023! @BorgDrone@feddit.nl @IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world @Sludgeyy@lemmy.world

      In 2023, an analysis of medical literature concluded that asphyxiation is discredited as the primary cause of death from crucifixion. There is scholarly support for several possible non-asphyxiation causes of death: heart failure or arrhythmia, hypovolemic shock, acidosis, dehydration, and pulmonary embolism. Death could result from any combination of those factors, or from other causes, including sepsis following infection due to the wounds caused by the nails or by the scourging that often preceded crucifixion, or from stabbing by the guards.

      • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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        6 hours ago

        If this was done back then, think what they will do to all of us if they get ahold of a godlike AI. Some Googleplex years of literally unimaginable torture that would make hell look like a cakewalk.