Evil Punishments Designed to be Worse Than Death 

I like how medieval people were so creative with torture methods but couldn't solve hygiene issues

Flaying legit has to be the worst way of dying I have ever seen, Imagine getting your skin slowly sliced apart with Small cuts usually taking Hours if not an entire day until you are left skinless with all of your muscles and tissues unprotected by the skin will result in even more pain and suffering until day later when you are finally put down

I can't even comprehend inflicting this much pain on another person, the fact that this was common back then is even more insane. We're definitely lucky to be born in this time, though I know there's still torture in some countries.

I'm loving the absolutely cheery, optimistic, hopeful, and "epic" music playing in the background while the narrator goes on about some of the most sadistic torture methods concocted by mankind. Great choice there, guys.

We are so lucky to be living in this time and day.

The more you hear about these brutalities, the less surprised I am, humans can be such sadistic and evil creatures, torturing others based purely on belief, rather than a proper system of evidence based trials, even today...

it's incredible how sick humanity is

The witch drowning always confused me. Don't they realize that if the woman in question really had magic, she wouldn't have been caught in the first place?

Not so fun fact: When flaying was done by someone skilled, your skin was removed from the bottom up, concluded by removing all the skin on your face and head. It's referred to as "degloving". Often this was done in front of a mirror so the victim could see their own skull with eyes in the sockets. Their eyelids came off with the skin so they couldn't blink or close their eyes. They spend the next hours or days staring at their own skeleton and skull. The mental horror of the sight is unimaginable and a worse torture than any physical pain?

So, is the loud, distracting background music the Infographics Show's way of torturing it's viewers?

having had a dislocated shoulder multiple times, i can't fanthom what "the rack would do to a person and the immense pain, truely sickening.

"I didn't do it" - gets slowly tortured. "Okay okay, i did it, even though i know i didn't" - gets killed anyways. You just can't win.

"How do you prove your innocence? Die!" This line is so sadistic and funny in a morbid way

I honestly cannot understand how is it possible to even think about something like this. Humans must be the worst specie that exists on this Earth.

Heartly RIP to all the victems of any forms of torture.. May your soul truly rest and liberate

Human evil is easily the most disgusting thing in all of this planet's history. I could never imagine myself ever wanting to hurt someone or watch someone be tortured in any of these ways or even close. Every single one of these punishments is incredibly cowardly and grotesque and I really am unable to understand what in the world goes in the head of someone capable of these things. Absolute sociopath monsters

Gotta love the upbeat inspirational music while he's describing how people can be horribly ripped apart

It’s crazy how nowadays when some people get arrested they find it the worst day of there lives thinking the world is over for them and then hearing these torture methods that are scary as heck

Imagine going through that. It makes you think about the fact that many people have gone through this and that's crazy, you can't even start to think how agonizing that would be (I would definitely expect the crime rates to be lower, no matter their circumstances) .

Imagine the fear and panic people in medieval times must have felt of being wrongfully accused and mercilessly tortured to death… I mean, it's scary enough to think about being wrongfully accused now, but the torture devices they used back then must have dramatically intensified the fear. I think people really need to have and receive more compassion.

Chapters: 00:19: Flaying 01:57: The Boats 03:27: Poena Cullei (the sack) 05:03: Crucifixtion 06:45: Immurement 08:25: The Breaking wheel 09:52: Impalement 11:18: The Rack 12:38: Auto-da-fe (burnt alive) 14:01: Schwedentrunk 15:17: Tarring & Feathering 16:38: Trial by Ordeal 18:05: Rat torture 19:22: Yubitsume (slice off a little finger) 20:28: White Torture

THIS WAS VERY HELPFUL THANK U FOR U KIND AND GENORUS ADVICE

Jesus didn't anger the Roman authorities. He angered the Jewish authorities.

Brazen Bull should easily be number 1, idk how it didn’t even get mentioned. The combination of not only burning, but the full body contact to the heated metal, and on top of that being in a pitch black tiny space, and the thought of people getting enjoyment out of your screams for help. When I found this torture method a few weeks ago I couldn’t sleep that whole night thinking that human beings had actually died that way and someone was sick enough to invent it. It’s a holo metal bull with a door on the side big enough for someone to be put into and shut, and there’s a some kind of horns that go from the inside out the nostril of the bull to turn the victims screams into the sound of a bull. A fire would be lit below the bull to slowly heat the inside of the bull.

Suddenly prison doesn't seem so bad anymore 😅

I could only watch some of this video but it is extremely well made. It gives you an appreciation for modern civilization.

The level of creative energy for torture was something to behold. Imagine our progress today if we used this energy back then to create and build, rather than to torture. “My lord, I think I just discovered electricity!” “Shut up Johnson. We don’t have time for that. We’re brainstorming how best to remove the skin from a thief.”

“Video games cause violence!” The world before video games:

The narrator’s voice, It’s so soothing and factual with a dash of sarcasm. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

It’s hard to imagine the mindset people had back then but i guarantee if we were living in those times we would have the same mindsets which is crazy to think about

This is just crazy and truly heartbreaking. Mankind can be so cruel to one another. We're all brothers and sisters of God above. I am glad we are living in the present and not the past.

The fact that we get free videos on RU-vid by The Infographics Show is truly a gift. 👍👍👍

Side note: in tarring and feathering, tar was actually rarely used because it was rather expensive. More often than not a different sticky substance was used because the point of tarring and feathering isn't torture or death, it's humiliation.

It's honestly terrifying how creative people are when it comes to this sort of thing Edit: Why did yall drag God into this for literally no reason

We must all be grateful that we live in a rather peaceful time. Of course loads of people get killed, but in most cases it's a matter of ending someone's life quick and efficiently, and means of extensive torture are probably only still part in the most criminal communities existing in this society. If a normal person dies a painful death these days, they are probably surrounded by a team of educated people, trying their best to prevend the horrible passing.

One thing I’ve learned about humanity is that it doesn’t really matter wether you are good or evil. Everyone is obsessed with torturing each other in some way

I think we can agree that a majority of tortures are worse than death

For me, the most horrifying thing is not the tortures themselves, but the fact that they have always been done our thousands of years and by every different culture and society throughout history.

It is fascinating in a macabre way to hear of these inventive tortures. I have never been able to understand how an individual could inflict on someone those awful methods and what in the world would be anyone's experience of such terrible pain and suffering. I cannot deal with root canals. Was asked to leave the dentist's office the one time I tried it.

As an autistic, this is a pretty terrifying reminder of the cruelty of humanity, how easy it is for a society to turn on an individual, and how happily humans can accept the most horrific acts as long as it's not happening to them. Kinda reminds me of cancel culture. Humans will always get away with as much as they can.

"The Dark Ages" means the "obscured/unknown ages" like "dark side of the moon" and has nothing to do with it being a particularly brutal time in history, we just don't know much about it because a lot of records & such were destroyed.

One of the few people to not give information while tortured with the rack was Anne Askew, a Tudor woman who was accused of being a Christian heretic (for reading the Bible to the poor and illiterate, and for asking to divorce an abusive husband), and she refused to give the names of others to make it stop. And they didn’t go easy on her, as Henry the 8th bizarrely had it out for her and then had her carried to the stake (as she couldn’t walk) to be burned.

wowza.. i love medieval torture history!!

Best quote ' THE RACK IS BETTER THEN SLAPPING YOU WITH THE PHONE BOOK." 😂

"And they would be burned to death while still alive" you truly are a wordsmith infographics.

Out of all the tortures on that list, I would have to say the boats is the absolute worst 2:12. You're literally being slowly eaten from the outside and inside while laying in your own excriment.

Thanks for the ideas

When some people say "In the old days, people were better." = No. Humans were always HORRIBLE. They enjoyed causing horrible pain to others. Glad we have more modern ways to entertain people... like youtube.

There was a torture method where people would pour molten lead down the accused's mouth. There's a similar one where they'd take what looked like a baby rattle with holes and fill it with lead and heat it up to get the lead molten and shake little beads molten lead onto the faces and bodies of the accused.

I've been subscribed to this channel for a long time, and let me just say, you guys, your knowledge of torture is unparalleled, it's really incredible to see how much time and effort you guys put into finding out all the horrible and cruel things that humans have done to each other, great video guys.

ok but wheres the thumbnail? guy stuck in a tunnel?

Thanks for the information, now I know what to do to my siblings if they annoy me

From a human standpoint, I can't understand how anyone could subject another human to any of these. I've never understood why crowds would show up to watch this happen, either. I can't think of a crime that would warrant this kind of treatment. Man's inhumanity to man never ceases to surprise me.

Man, I can't finish this video right now. After the water/boiling water/sewage funnel torture thingy I'm... wow. Gonna go watch cat videos...

Humans being human, as usual killing each other.

10:57 What is the source for impaling of the Armenian civilians? I couldn't find any reliable source.

The Boats is also called scaphism. Everything I have ever studied regarding crucifixion maintains individuals did not just hang by their arms because if such were the case, said individuals would have died within minutes as a result of positional asphyxia. (Think back to hanging from the monkey bars when you were a kid. Remember how if you just hung from the bars it was very difficult to breathe?) The torturers needed to keep the condemned alive to suffer. In order to accomplish this, a peg or small ledge was placed beneath the feet so that the knees were slightly bent. This allowed the crucified individual to take pressure off their arms by pushing themselves up by their feet. This so-called ledge would only be large enough for one foot however, and since the feet were tied so that one foot was atop the other, the individual would be unable to alternate between feet, thus putting twice the pressure and strain on one foot and leg. Eventually, the individual would run out of the energy needed to push himself up by his feet in order to continue to breathe, and I think we all know what happens when a human can no longer get oxygen into their body. Oh, and fyi: crucifixion still happens today.

Given the long and varied history of man's inhumanity to man, it's a miracle we've arrived at a situation where this level of cruelty is unimaginable. It certainly lends perspective to today's problems and gives hope that things can and will get better.

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I love how triumphant and wholesome the music is while talking about how criminals have been put to suffer

Knowing what I was in store for there's NO FREAKING WAY I'd be taken alive for these torturous punishments...

I was watching this video a while back late one night and I was super high and let me tell you....between the artwork and the narrator, this 21 minute video was so amazing and fascinating to watch. 10/10 would watch it high again.

Jesus I came to youtube looking for a song.

Took me 4 hours to finish this video.. i was always reading up on these torture methods and going down one rabbit hole after another.. wow!

We truly are a messed up group of people at times

Tanto is a knife. Tonto is a character in The Lone Ranger. Yakuza do cut off tips of fingers, but they know go straight to the hospital to have them reattached.

You guys know how to make something very scary seem innocent 💀💀

Actually, for the trial of fire, if you didn't get burns, you'd be considered a witch and sentenced to death. If you had burns, you'd be innocent

Human beings were, are, and will be forever despicable.

Thank's for the content. I will use this information to improve my "methods" and my "art"

The boat used by the persians is called scaphism, they also would sometimes put people into the trunks of trees and follow the same procedure. But it was used for punishments towards heinous criminals and vengeful situations from what I read. There was a telling of 1 instance where a person was still alive and ants were crawling along their eyeballs as they were dying. Brutal

During crucifixion, if the condemned person was deemed to be "taking too long" to die, the executioners would sometimes break the legs of the crucified. The shock on the body, after hours or even days of hanging, would generally mean quick albeit unbelievably painful death

Human beings are sick and this video shows it. How can you put someone through so much agony as these torture methods? I don't even want to try to imagine.

How fitting is the uplifting music? How appropiate for the topic of torture!

I read that crucifixion was so common that they wouldn't even make a full cross, they would just attach a beam to a tree. And that nailing wasn't even as common, they would just tie you using rope. Some even theorize that Jesus was probably crucified on a tree, though the nails were probably accurate. The yubitsume is also not as graceful as you describe. In the account of one yakuza member, he used a hammer and chisel.

10:53 Source: trust me bro

Got a love the upbeat tone as horrific descriptions of torture are described. Sweet.

European here, I really wish we were known for better things than wars and violence.

It truly is horrible, the desire for bloodlust, the wish to cause as immense a level of pain as possible, the lack of empathy and the overall cruelty that mankind can, to such an extent, inflict on itself. The very fact that any human being would desire to inflict such pain and cause so much human misery that it would take hundreds of deaths to compare to and be of the same level of cruelty of this is quite an excruciating and demoralizing fact in itself. What's more, the more of this type of cruelty there is, the more desire for revenge and "justice" there is, and thus as much, if not more, pain is dealt in return, leading to a never-ending truly horrible system that makes one wish humanity would reform from these terrible methods. There is no point to such, and this method of cruelty aught to be anniealted at once, and should never have happened in the first place, in the name of all that we hold close and dear.

Been with you for few years now love yall. Weirdly enough your videos have been big part of my life when it comes to leisure time.

Me as a human being: the human race was a mistake. Me as an author: *takes notes.* On a more serious note, for all the problems in the world today I am glad that at least some of human society has renounced such barbaric ways of dealing with those deemed undesirable.

I remember reading, with the rack, that sometimes, they didn't break and pop bones and joints right away. Sometimes they would leave them stretched to the very limit for hours, then send them back to their cell, where all of their joints would get severely sore and enflamed from the stress. So before they ever got to the rack the next day, they hadn't been severely damaged, but would be in terrible pain before the session would even start. So it would be psychological torture just walking there from the soreness, and it gets them imagining how bad it would be if they had gone any further. This would often get people to talk before they'd even break a bone. I'm not sure what instances they would do it this way, but I'm assuming possibly where you couldn't afford to waste a productive human and wanted to get info from them while leaving open the possibility of being able to still leave them a productive member of society if they were willing to talk early.

These got progressively more humane, not worse

I'm glad I live in the 21st century, that's all I'll say.

You actually forgot about the blood eagle. It's a torture method used by old nordic people at the peak of the viking age. In that torture, a person would be kneeled and then their back cut open, ribs pulled to the front and lungs would be left hanging over the victim's shoulders. If a victim didn't make any noise, they would go to Valhalla. It was used only for persons that had some significance (as in a Jarl or a king). It was the last chance for that person to die glorious death.

Bamboo torture. might aswell do something for the Environment while doing torture.

The second torture method is highly debated, most people don't believe it happened. But if it did....that's still a horrible way to go out.

1:53 "flaying is nothing compared to..." Nah man, just no.. if anything, flaying should be at very top alongside brazen bull, impalement, sawing and quartered..

I am a scary story narrator on here and I have to say, you have a wonderful voice and I appreciate the hard work you do for us. Never stop making videos!

I don’t understand how anyone could be so sadistic and feel they have any right to put anyone through such tortures.. God only knows what happens to their soul.

Skinning was a torture for martyrs that were recognized as saints in orthodox Christianity too. It’s insane how horrible humans treated one another for the sake of dif religions

I could never imagine myself ever attending an execution for entertainment. This is sick

11:02 wtf? good lie bro where is the proof?? where is the photo?? good job

For a channel called "The Infographics Show" you'd think they'd ensure a higher degree of historical accuracy in their animations.

18:43 "Someone call PETA" got me 🤣

9:05 Person: Getting Executed Public: Bro, killin' ain't fun. It's boring, plz spice it up by doin' sum more torture, eh?

11:00 U say very easily that there was a genocide in 1915, n that this genocide was carried out in the style of a voivode the impaler. Can I get a simple source?

The fact that any of these torture methods were used, makes me question humanity.

LOL! @17:00, the guy dueling on the left looks like Barry Gibb, in front of that tree!

Great video, but how come the "brazen bull" wasn't mentioned? It's way more sadistic then any of this punishments..