In the ancient society brutal methods were used to execute a sentence and take away the life of offenders giving them as much pain as possible.
1. Disfigurement and mutilation punishments were mostly inflicted on thieves and often coupled with fines. The Egyptians administered these methods in order to punish corrupt government officials by cutting off their noses and ears.
2. Trial by ordeal was administered to prove the innocence of any person by plucking a stone from a saucepan of boiling water and having the wounds heal within three days was required to prove your innocence.
3. Republican Marriage was a strange form of execution practiced in France which involved the tying of a man and woman together and then throwing both of them in a river to drown.
4. Flaying was the act of removing a person's skin from their body, this form of execution was often used in order to stir up fear, as the skin would typically be nailed in a public place for all to see.