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Traditional /historical punishments in Poland


Vlad123  7 | 204  
26 Dec 2012 /  #1
What were officially acceptable methods of execution in Poland?
And what were most typical? Something like this was common?


gumishu  15 | 6176  
26 Dec 2012 /  #2
impaling was not a traditional Polish way of capital punishment
Des Essientes  7 | 1288  
26 Dec 2012 /  #3
Sienkiewicz claims that the Poles learned impalement from the Wallachians. The third book of the Trilogy contains a passage which narrates the inner-thoughts of a Tartar prince being exectuted in this manner.
OP Vlad123  7 | 204  
26 Dec 2012 /  #4
impaling was not a traditional Polish way of capital punishment

Which were traditional and common?
gumishu  15 | 6176  
26 Dec 2012 /  #5
Vlad123

Which were traditional and common?

for a nobleman it was beheading or shooting (in the military)

for lower classes it was hanging
pawian  221 | 25255  
26 Dec 2012 /  #6
for a nobleman it was beheading or shooting (in the military)for lower classes it was hanging

Simply speaking, standard procedures.

The English or French methods were much more impressive.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered

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