<evilada>: Best suicide plan ever <mcm310>: what is it? <evilada>: you go up to the top of a roof <evilada>: string piano wire tight across the front edge at neck level <evilada>: tie a cord to your foot and the other end to the building so that you'll be above sidewalk level when its fully stretched <evilada>: then you put super glue on your hands <evilada>: and put your arms around the front of the wire and then back to touch your head <evilada>: then you lean forward, so the piano wire cuts your neck but not your elbows <evilada>: when the cord goes taut, youll be hanging upside down with no head....except your head will be in your outstretched arms thanks to gravity and the glue, staring at someone upside down and spewing blood everywhere. <evilada>: And some poor ******* will be traumatized for LIFE. <mcm310>: i dont think i can be your friend anymore
oh, but how could we forget death by: molten gold poured down throat, like waht happened to the Roman IMPERATOR VALERIANVS in 260 AD. Indians also executed the Spanish governor of Logrono in Equador with this method in 1599 .. until "his bowels bursted".
You left out Drawn and Quartered, which could open up a whole new area of legalized gambling betting on which horse gets the most of the torso. Bob Saget could host!
As far as methods of execution go, it's one of my personal favorites. The setup is buildable in practically any location. It doesn't require a power source and doesn't need fancy equipment (like the chair or the gas chamber). It's not particularly painful as the spinal column is severed at the moment of impact. It's not drawn out or lingering in any way.
Best of all, I'm not sure there's a recorded case where a gullotine failed to kill someone on the first try. A 30lb blade falling 15' in a guided path is most certainly going to do its job. About the only thing that could go wrong is if the frame for the guillotine comes apart mid-descent.
Mr. OP, you forgot about being fed to the lions and the colosseum deathmatches.
If I am to choose, I'd like the colosseum so I have a chance to survive(even how slim) if I kill my opponent. And if I win, I become popular. (until I get pitted against another opponent again)
but you also forgot about being drawn and quartered... where they tie each of you limbs to 4 horses and make they run on opposite directions..
There's also a Navaho Indian version of this. They tie you're legs to two tree limbs that are bent, I forget what tree but the limbs are insanely strong, and then let go of your legs go to see which one rips off. They also make bets on which leg rips off. Good times, good times.