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* From the Middle Ages to the 19th Century, execution by elephant was a favored method in Southeast Asia for rebellion, tax evasion, or theft, as it was symbolic of a ruler's power, even over nature. Elephants are rather easy to train, so depending on the whims of the ruler, this form of execution was either an Inversion, where the condemned man's death was mercifully quick (the elephant swiftly crushing the skull) or played horribly straight, the elephant being trained to prolong the unfortunate victim's agony by slowly crushing him.
* [[Flaying Alive|Flaying,]] when a victim is skinned alive, literally, has been done by the Aztecs to prisoners of war, to traitors in medieval Europe and by some Chinese emperors, again to POWs. While no longer legal in any part of the world, there was an incident in 2000 where Burmese troops flayed every male inhabitant of the village of Karenni. Generally, an attempt is made to keep the victim alive while removing the skin in one piece, causing death by shock, blood loss, hypothermia, or infection, often days afterwards. Saint Bartholomew is generally said to have been martyred this way.
* Death from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomslang boomslang] venom. Don't let the silly name fool you, for while the boomslang is a shy, non-agressive, and almost cute-looking reptile, it is one of the deadliest snakes known. Its venom is hemotoxic, meaning it destroys red blood cells, disrupts the clotting process and causes tissue and organ degeneration. What this means to anyone unlucky enough to be bitten by it
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