Throughout history forms of justice have been dished out that can be described as brutal, irregular, and just downright bizarre. Here are 10 peculiar punishments from history that will make you wince, laugh, and maybe even vomit.
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2,500 years ago, a man committing adultery in Athens might find himself before a crowd in the agora. There he would be subjected to a grim legal punishment known as Rhaphanidosis. This involved a radish being shoved where the sun doesn’t shine. Before the radish went in, the guilty man would also have all the hair from his nether regions removed with hot ash.
The Romans did a similar thing to adulterers but used a gray mullet, the fish not the hairstyle, instead. The Romans clearly hated adulterers, and anyone found guilty could be fined, raped, castrated, or executed.
In the medieval period, people clearly thought quick deaths were a bit dull and boring, as so many methods of execution were designed to prolong the screams of the condemned. One such mode of dispatch is known as ‘The Iron Coffin of Lissa’.