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[Method]: Smothering (Asphyxia)
[Description]: Suffocation in ash.
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[Method]: Disembowelment
[Description]: Often employed as a preliminary stage to the actual execution, e.g. by beheading; an integral part of seppuku (harakiri), which was sometimes used as a form of capital punishment.
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[Method]: Immurement
[Description]: The confinement of a person by walling off any exits; since they were usually kept alive through an opening, this was more a form of imprisonment for life than of capital punishment (example: the countess Elisabeth Báthory, who lived for four more years after having been immured).
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[Method]: Drowning
[Description]: Execution by drowning, as a method of execution, is attested very early in history, for a large variety of cultures, and as the method of execution for many types of offences.
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[Method]: Blowing from a gun
[Description]: Tied to the mouth of a cannon, which is then fired.
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[Method]: Molten or Heated Metal
[Description]: Supposedly Marcus Licinius Crassus and Pavlo Pavliuk were killed in this fashion. The execution method is associated with those who were thirsty for wealth by pouring down the neck or for those who wished to be king by pouring metal on the head.Alternately, a heated crown and scepter can be placed on the head to make the victim to appear as a parody of a King. In Ukrainian this is called death by slapstick
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