…From Medieval Europe:

http://io9.com/the-10-most-gruesome-torture-techniques-from-medieval-e-1626942115

I’ve seen bits and pieces of information regarding the “creative” torture techniques from the Middle Ages and before.  While we live in far more enlightened times today, it is truly scary to see how incredibly sadistic humans can be.

Today, the death penalty is a controversial subject, no more so than most recently when the so called “execution” drugs have been harder and harder to find and some prison officials seem to be perfectly fine with the idea of experimenting with unknown medications to kill someone.

Yet looking over the above website, the word “gruesome” comes again and again and I certainly couldn’t help but feel for the many people who fell into these torture devices, some of which kept their victims alive but in extreme agony for days.

Hopefully, we’ll never return to anything resembling this…

Let’s hope, anyway.