EXECUTIONERS (True Crime) by Clarke Phil & Hardy Liz & Williams Anne

Author:Clarke, Phil & Hardy, Liz & Williams, Anne [Clarke, Phil]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Nonfiction
Publisher: Canary Press
Published: 2011-02-02T00:00:00+00:00

ALI THE IMPALER

In Ali Pasha’s favoured method, the victim was made to lie down with his legs spreadeagled and his hands tied behind his back. So as not to distract the executioner from his work, the victim was rendered motionless by the executioner’s assistant who sat on a saddle placed on the victim’s back while the executioner prepared the stake. He smeared the shaped end of the stake with lard and then grasped it with both hands and forced it into the anus of the victim as deeply as possible. Presumably this would have required quite a lot of energy on the part of the executioner – perhaps even a small run-up! Then he picked up a mallet and pounded the end of the stake so that it penetrated another 38-50 centimetres (15-20 inches). The victim was then hoisted upright and the stake implanted firmly into the ground. The victim’s feet were left dangling in the air so that the weight of his struggling body forced him down still further on to the stake. Relatives of the condemned may have attempted to pull downwards on the lower half of their loved one, forcing the stake further on it’s journey, thus hastening death.

As with the Romanian method adopted by Vlad the Impaler some 300 years earlier, the end of the stake was left blunt so that it squeezed aside the vital organs rather than punctured them. Victims could expect to survive in agony for up to three days, depending on where the stake left the body. Friends and relatives hoped that the stake took a quick exit through the left side of the body, causing cardiac arrest. If it took a right and pierced the armpit, the shoulder or the chest, the victims agony would be prolonged and death would finally come through gradual blood loss or exposure. If a roasting was in order, the family of the impaled prisoner would be forced to turn the spit on which they sizzled, or face the same hideous fate.

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