Stoning In The Old Testament

Many forms of execution have been used throughout the course of history. There are ones that are famous, such as crucifixion, and others that are hardly known, such as the blood eagle. Through human history, mankind has come up with many grotesque ways of extinguishing other people’s lives. Many were killed for simple crimes, or for truly horrid ones. But as humanity has grown, well, more humane, its methods of execution have grown to be far less painful and torturous. One of the earliest and oldest method, arguably the oldest form, but this is not a known fact, is stoning. Usually, in Biblical times (Specifically the Old Testament, as Jesus forbade Christians from doing it in the New Testament), it was used for adulterous women who would sleep with someone before marriage or have an affair. Notably, it was only used on women, and not the men they slept with. In order to stone someone, a crowd would gather around them and start throwing rocks. This would continue until the person was beaten to death with the rocks. It could take up to ten or twenty minutes. Sadly, while it is no longer a form of execution in the

One such method would be the blood eagle. It was a method of execution invented by the early Norsemen during the Middle Ages. Those who were sentenced to this would have the ribs in their back broken open one by one. Then, their lungs would actually be pulled outside of their body, separated from the rest of them. Normally, this would cause the person to die of shock. If that did not cause death, then they would die of suffocation. However, there was a rather twisted upside to this. If the victim of the blood eagle were to go through the entirety of the process without screaming, they would earn their place into Valhalla, which is the place where Odin gathers the finest warriors to become part of his army for Ragnarok, which would be the end of the