Talk:List of methods of capital punishment

Request

Perhaps if the page was to split up into the forms used today and abolshed forms

"Cooking" to Death

I've seen many examples (woodcuts and what have you) of people being "cooked" to death -- that is, suspended or sat in a large skillet over a slow fire. (Scroll down to the picture here[1] for an example). I'd like to add this form of execution to the article but I can't think of the right word to use.... any suggestions? --Jquarry 03:18, 6 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

According to the distinction made below, this doesn't seem to be a form of *capital* punishment. --75.69.134.134 01:57, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Vandalism.

Isn't Being Dionised and Moriised a Vandalism???

I dunno, but is "Getting a Violin rammed up ur hole" vandalism. And are "getting rid to death" or "I ROCK" even methods of punishment. (Erased these lines: Nox13last 13:18, 15 January 2008 (UTC))

Distinction between capital punishment and other forms of killing

It appears to me that that several of these forms of killing are not capital punishment, but just imaginative means of murder. That is, these deaths are not inflicted as a punishment for a crime, but simply are means of killing people off without convicting them of anything first. Walking the plank, for instance, was not used as a criminal punishment, even by pirates (though marooning was sometimes the result of a quasi-legal trial before one's fellow pirates, and thus could be considered an execution method). Likewise, the Viking blood eagle was just a particularly savage way of disposing of war captives, not a punishment for anything the captives had done.

Unless someone points out an error in my thinking here, I want to remove these nonjudicial methods of killing from the list. - - Pirate Dan 15:51, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, now we have curb stomping, which is even further removed from the realm of judicial punishment. Nobody's answered, so I'm editing. Pirate Dan 20:56, 18 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]