25 of Humanity’s Most Brutal Methods of Execution
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Consider yourself lucky. If you are reading this you most likely not only live in a society blessed by a functioning legal system you also probably live in a society in which that system makes an attempt to fairly and efficiently deliver justice, especially in the case of capital punishment. For most of history rather than capital punishment being focused on ending life, it was focused on drawing it out long enough that the victim would be put through as much hell-on-earth as possible. So, in order to help you count your blessings we are bringing you 25 of humanity's most brutal methods of execution.
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Number 1: Having to listen to Kidz Bop for 24 hours straight
Swap out Kidz Bop for Barney or Tellitubbies.
How about K-pop....my daughter listens to that stuff. It's just weird listening to music when you literally cannot understand the words....since they are in Korean.
I think id rather be flayed.
Darknova sorry to hear that, could imagine that is a slow horrible way to go ☠️💀👻
michael ham same here
This was possibly the creepiest list ever. Out of all the methods, I think I'd choose the guillotine. It's the least inhumane of all of them.
You guys at List25 are highly amusing....and a bit morbid. On the other hand, who isn't now days?!?
No kidding..
Love the new format! You guys are awesome
I love that this video just keeps going...
another great interesting list
I love the friendship chemistry between you guys you are hilarious
thanks for making my day again
I love Tristan’s cats! They are adorable!
My pride and joy and I'm thankful everyday for my girlfriend bringing them and herself into my life.
~Tristan
Ikr! Loveeee kitty’s & his were soo adorable like lil fluff balls of love! 😆😉💜🐱🐈
🤣😂🤣😂Dude in the background is hilarious more of him plz
U mean Tristan? Lol ya they’re great together
More piggies sounds
Lmao omg the pirate impersonation mike, too cute 😆👍🏻✌🏻
The visuals have gotten much better guys. I like the new look.
Worst torture ever: waiting for a new List25 video.
Lol agreed! I hate the wait! Lol
Nobody;
List25:
Did we just get memed! I love getting memed!
~Tristan
@@list25 yes you did
@@youraveragecreator You inspired me:
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~Tristan
list25 LoL LOVE IT! 😉✌🏻💜✌🏻
Great pirate, SpongeBob 😆
Surprised a cat person gets excited about executions, you never cease to amaze me Tristan.
What are self-harming behaviors society normalizes?
Tristan, don't worry you might be a bit more on the wackier side than we thought but we still love you. 💜
@list25 I've been a subscriber to your TH-cam channel for about 3 years now. I really enjoy watching your videos. I have 2 chronic lower back pain conditions, Lumbar Spinal Stenosis and Degenerative Disc Disease and Osteoarthritis in both of my knees and in my hips. I can't sleep most nights because of my chronic pain so I binge watch your videos. Binge watching your videos helps me get through the sleepless nights and helps me forget about my pain. Thank you for making your videos, I really appreciate it.
Terminal lumbago what a shame.
That’s awful, I know what my husband went through, so sorry you’re in such pain.
Excellent job guys. Love it. So amusing
Crucifixion should’ve been #1 on this list. However, crucifixion being #2 on this list makes a lot of sense.
Firing squad!!!!!!! 🔫 🔫 🔫 ⚰️⚰️⚰️ 😍😍😍
I will apologize for saying Tristan didn’t have strong arms, so my favorite form of execution would be Tristan strangling a evil criminal. Tristan please do the pig sound on the next video!! Lol
I can probably make at least one of those requests happen.
~Tristan
list25 LoL Loved your meow tho today! Btw i love my kitty Zoë too!!! Aren’t they just the best?! Love u guys!! 💕🐱✌🏻
These videos are always awesome.
Guillotine ...Gotta say I think this is the best... but I HATE hitting my head so I would ask for a pillow because as an EMT i know I’m aware for a good twenty seconds.
Lol😂😂😂
Bumps to the head are quite bad!
Mike and Tristan I am speechless
I love List 25. Mike and Tristan are helluva funny. My favourite form of execution is No. 14, the Blood Eagle, it gives a whole new meaning to R. Kelly's I Believe I can Fly.
It kind of scares me how excited that other guy is.
That's fine. We all have our interests.
~Tristan
@@list25 That we do, even if it's inhumane. :)
Thanks Tristan, another one. Still looking great Mike! List 25!
Loved the pirate voice
You guys even make methods of torture hilarious. Thanks again for the fantastic list.
I guess that's a good thing?
~Tristan
@@list25 Because these methods of execution were so horrendous it is was funny to me how you made small puns especially the shoes, that was great. By the way I have two cats Jynx and Daisy.
I'm with you Tristan it's fascinating.
Finally we get to see Tristan! Great video as always.
Don't forget:
Salt the wound&
Strip the flesh
-kreig
Borderlands 2
Your welcome :)
Great list! That was some horrible ways of dying as a form of punishment. I have a cat he is black and he is cross eyed. His name is midnight. Have a great day mike and Tristan! 😀
great choice of background music :D
Tristan, you are not evil. In the US, we have far too many people in our prisons, who's execution cannot come fast enough. We have child murderers, who are allowed to live out their own lives. This is wrong on so many levels.
Interesting and surprising list you guys 🙂👍
Can't have a list video without Tristan's snarky comments ❤
OK, I'm more than a little disturbed by Tristan's sheer excitement over the very concept of execution!
Yikes! A side of him we didn't want to know about!
LOL!
You have left me speechless!!
Execution usually does that too.
~Tristan
God bless you list 25
Being forced to watch consecutive episodes of Keeping up with the Kardashian's until brain leaks out the ears.
I like Mike's idea of hugs and tickling!! lol
People think wild animals like sharks are dangerous. Humans are the most deadly, invasive and destructive species on this planet but wild animals are supposed to be the most destructive.
I really appreciate the man that has done the most brutal methods of torture and most of the other shows I've watched
He is really good at his job
My Favorite Form Of Entertainment Is, Binge Watching list25
I somehow knew Tristan has cats. This tidbit didn't surprise me. Lol. 😺
Pear of Anguish, Judas Cradle, Rat Torture, or the Rack all seem to be pretty brutal ways to die as well
I really love your channel I was able to watch it while I was going through my chemo and radiation the beginning of this year and the middle of last year. how do you get one of your shirt or stickers that has Louie the lizard on it? I'm on a fixed income because I'm on disability but I'd really like to get some of your merchandise that had Louie the lizard
Can we bring back these methods for child rapists and animal abusers?
Willow76ny I like that idea, death to those people!
52 seconds into this List and I have to say "If the punishment fits, carry it out without a second thought or regret." If that were the case today, prisons wouldn't be "overly crowded" - people might actually be too afraid to do anything stupid or just be more meticulous in their crimes to not getting caught.
Loved the meme y’all made about this vid this morn. it was hilarious!! Great List as always guys! ~ Happy 4th of July y’all!! Xo 😉✌🏻💜👍🏻🎆
There's actually another version of live burial called "immurement", which is essentially placing someone in an enclosed space and bricking up the opening.
Tristan you need to read up on why they stopped using the guillotine. it had to do with them finding out that the death isn't instant. Charlotte Corday was slapped after being beheaded, and she gave her executioner "stink eye" and then a look of utter disgust. Others are sited to have blinked repeatedly, one showed shock. terror, and then grief as the eyes darted from the face of the witness to its severed body again and again.
"Let the bodies hit the floor"
NO MATTER WHO IT IS GETTING EXECUTED , IT DOESNT MATTER HOW BRUTAL IT IS OR HOW BRUTAL THE BAD PERSON IS IN THE END THERES ONLY ONE JUDGE GOD HE IS THE ONLY AND FINAL JUDGE
Amen 🙏
I think I might be a bit crazy!! I love the whole skin flapping moment, but then all warm inside at the car pictures! 🤦😂😂
*Cat 🐈 🐱 heh me too!
My favorite form of execution is death by old age.
Interesting list! 👍🏻 Well, as much for the question in the end: I'd rather don't get executed at all! K.x.
1000 razor sharp cuts - not sure if I seen or heard it, I kinda missed a few methods, but this is likely my favorite method anyway
Here's some other brutal execution methods
Immurement - This wasn't always a means of execution, but sometimes it was. Immurement involved placing someone in an enclosure (such as an alcove or coffin) and walling up the opening. When used as a method of execution, the person that got sealed up was left to starve to death. Besides being an execution method, immurement was also used as a form of human sacrifice [such as in hopes of ensuring the stability of a building or bridge], and certain people (like the anchorites of medieval Europe) would choose to be walled into cells or suites as a form of hermitism, although in the latter case, they were regularly fed.
Poena Cullei (penalty of the sack) - A favorite among the ancient Roman authorities for patricide (killing one's own parents), poena callei involved being sewn into a large bag with 2 or 3 animals [usually a snake, chicken and or monkey] and the bag thrown into the nearest body of water for the unlucky occupants to drown. Inevitably the animals would attack the victim as they drowned.
Death via molten metal - This involved pouring melted metal (such as gold) down the victim's throat
Gibbitting - A gibbet was a cage in the size and shape of a human body in which someone would be ''hung in chains'', usually after having been executed by hanging. The body was left inside the cage until it rotted away as a deterrent to others. Gibbets were most notably used on pirates in Britain during the 18th century.
Rat death - In this method, rats would be placed in a cage or upside down bowl on the victim's torso, the cage would be heated and in a bid to escape, the rats would tunnel into the victim, destroying vital organs.
Blasting - Used by the British in India, blasting someone to death involved tying them to the front of a cannon and the cannon fired.
I'm surprised the MALLEUS MALEFICARUM didn't make this list. It is only probably the most blood soaked book on human history. Also know as The Witches hammer.
The guy that made the brass bull,died in it right after showing it to the tyrant who commissioned it. True fact.
"The tying of a man and woman.... then throwing the pair into the ocean to drown" well that escalated quickly
You guys are so fun! Love your videos! And, Mike, I'm with Tristian on this one!
Number 25 is terrifying
I totally agree with Tristan that the guillotine is the easiest way to die as it is quick. Therefore not must suffering. I wonder if the people that caused the worst torturing murder were haunted badly.
I like the French device that strapped victims to a table and placed a cage over their abdomen and fill it with starving rats who would then eat the victim to escape. LIVE you Mike and Tristen!!
Lord... I absolutely LOVE you guys... But the fact that Mike's mouth isn't synced up with words is driving me crazy ‼️LMBO 😂 ‼️
That uh... might just be your computer. I can promise you that they're all synced. The microphone we use syncs directly into the camera.
~Tristan
list25 yea I didn’t have that problem.. was perfect for me! 😉👍🏻✌🏻
My favorite form of execution is for the victim to be securely died to an immovable chair, their eyelids held open, like in "A Clockwork Orange" and made to watch "The Star wars Holiday Special" over and over again. They'll die in severe agony
human sacrifice by jumping a motorbike over a shark tank - killed an entire show
Number 24 is the most humane. Public execution should be brought back. Maybe we wouldn't have so many criminals walking the streets.
All right - I love hearing about brutal methods of execution!
Flam! Good to see you! Hope your feeling better. And I agree I liked this topic today too (can think of a few that could use these on from DeadBugs videos
@@Calthrow Hey there! My vision is now officially 20/30! So that's an improvement! Haha, I like how you think!
@@Flamsterette 😊 that's great! I think the punishment should fit the crime😁
@@Calthrow Oh, it definitely should! How are you feeling?
@@Flamsterette I am sill on the mend but better
I think that the best thing about the Brazen Bull method was that the creator was the first one that was executed in it😎
My favorite? The victim is tied to a post on top of a fire ant mound. The victim is then drizzled with honey and the fire ant mound(s) below are stirred up. The victim usually dies of shock. Fun for the entire family!
Fire ants are horrible, but not everywhere. Regular ants were most used. I'd rather fire ants. You die quicker.
Jeez... it’s like being eaten alive by tiny lil bastards pricks... Yikes! 😩
Tristan is the new best host 😁
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I take it back. Best pirate impression ever.
Is it wrong how much I laughed at the end!
Dude, the guillotine isn't brutal lmao, you remain conscious for like 20 seconds, but you are in shock so you don't feel much.
Doubt you would feel much shock aside since all the nerve endings have been severed
#BringBackTheGuillotine
~Tristan
@@list25 of course you'd bring back the guillotine, you'd bring back the entire list!
Rumor has it. The u.s. government purchased a few of those some time this century.
@@jamie91995 Nah, my friend. Just the Guillotine.
~Tristan
Guillotine was not cruel as it instantly cut off the head and you died instantly. It replaced beheading using as axe to cut off the head. Many times the executioner missed and needed 2 or 3 chops to completely remove head from body.
#BringBackTheGuillotine
~Tristan
Wow that’s very disturbing lol so I guess the guillotine was kinda a good invention..? Lol
The one million cuts and hornets one was sick too.
I gotta agree with Tristan here, execution is morbidly fascinating. I think out of the ones on this list, either the Blood Eagle (which I've also seen called "Blood Angel") or the Brazen Bull are my favorite. One form of death I was surprised wasn't on here was the Judas Cradle, although, that's more about the torture and usually only caused death inadvertently.
so wait I rewatched list25's video about list25 and i came to question, who the hell in north korea works for list25?
I don't think there is any Historical report of walking the plank. Keel Hauling was a thing though( where a person was run across the bottom of the ship, and if they were lucky it be width ways and not length ways), maybe that's where it came from.
hahaha awesome pirate impression!
The word excruciating actually comes from crucifiction. It means 'from the cross' as the nails used would drive through the forearms and pinch a major nerve. The same nerve we feel when we 'hit our funny bone' though the pain would be 100s of times worse.
Love it .
Heads removed via guillotine appeared to actually live for 4 to 19 seconds. They looked around and in two cases actually responded when their names were called. Whether they were conscious is still debated, but the brain was still firing synopsis for a time.
Better question: which method of execution listed would you rather die by?
Blazing Saddles: execution scene, what'd the horse do???
Kicked Mel Brooks in rehearsal. Geoff Who notes Brooks still can't write an ending!
@@GCJT1949 I always thought Mel Brooks hated endings . . . .👍🤠🐄
FUNNIEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME!! Boy it wouldn't fly today, however....
My favorite method of execution is crucifixion because I get to T pose on all the haters, even in death
Well then...
I adore this channel ❤️🇮🇪
This is gross I'm trying to eat...I continue watching..
Lol me too
It completely freaked me out when I recently learned the last guillotine execution in France occurred on the day I got married.
The man who invented the most effective guillotine died by the guillotine
Mike as a pirate just made my day!
Number 1 but we don't have a deadpenalty, I think it would be better to have it for criminals who are really guilty
Being dragged by horses in the Wild West is very painful
Tickling someone until they die got to be the worst form
My favorite was hulling. Fuck walking the plank
If #25 was that bad...I can only imagine #1.😬
And to think that in the old days parents thought nothing of taking their children to a public execution
I love you guys ^^ always looking forward to your vids
There was a serial killer who killed children and ate them. His punishment was 2 b, strangled by a chain, cut up, put in acid, all in front of the children's parents. He was found dead by mysterious cause in his cell.
Warning! AARRH was copyrighted by Robert Newton who played Long John Silver in Disneys “Treasure Island”, plus a short lived TV series.
Should have spent more time in Asia,Being drawn & quartered by means of tying each limb to a different horse. Being bound and having small body parts(think fingers and toes,to start) cut off,then being forced to watch as they were feed to the dogs.(The Mongol hordes were a barrel of laughs.)In the book "Shogun",being boiled alive and one war lord buried up to his neck, then let everyone take a whack at his head......meanwhile back at the pirates there was( one movies version) of Blackbeard meeting his end buried up to his neck on the beach, left to watch the tide come in. Stoning is still fairly popular in the Middle East.
Yea that’s what I always thought quartering was.. each limb bring tied to a horse then the horses run off in 4 diff directions tearing off each limb.. which is fukin crazyyy LoL yikes! 😩✌🏻👍🏻