- Before the Needles
- Statistics and regional breakdowns of executions in America before the use of lethal injections. - Wikipedia: Death by a Thousand Cuts
- Brief description of the execution method that may have been used in ancient China, where small bits of flesh were carved away over a period of days or weeks. - Wikipedia: Disembowelment
- Article on the old form of capital punishment, also known as evisceration, where the vital organs are removed. - Wikipedia: Sawing
- Brief description of the execution method used in the Spanish Inquisition where the condemned was hung upside down and then sawed apart down the middle, starting at the crotch. - DPIC: Methods of Execution
- Reviews types of executions used in the United States, including a state-by-state breakdown. - History of Execution Methods
- Describes popular methods of execution throughout history. - Indian Mirror: Strange Administrative Customs
- Reviews unusual punishments in historical India, including execution by elephant. - Death of a Thousand Cuts
- Overview and discussion of famously slow and possibly mythical Chinese execution method .
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