The death of an old English King
He was reportedly imprisoned in the Tower of London for years, before being turned upside down and having a metal funnel forcibly inserted into his anus. Then molten lead was poured into the funnel.

The traditional punishment for sexual deviants involved the condemned man being suspended by his ankles, naked while he is slowly sawn in half starting from the crotch.

I should imagine that either method is pretty nasty and serves to remind that we live in enlightened times, although they're both fitting means for doing away with really shit politicians in my humble opinion.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 7 May 2009, 11:13, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Got to love the old mediaeval tortures
Apparently with the crotch sawing one they typically got down to your belly button before you died. Lovely.

Another personal favourite is the one where they tie you down with a cauldron over your stomach and put a rat in it, then heat the cauldron from outside. When it gets too hot in there the only way out for the rat is eating its way through you.
(username1, Thu 7 May 2009, 11:25, Reply)