Only a fellow death hag might understand why I would be thinking of all of the different ways people have died. I decided to ask google what the worst death of anybody, ever, might be. This is what I found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthasar_G%C3%A9rard
Trial, torture, and execution
At the house he immediately underwent a preliminary examination before the city magistrates. Upon being interrogated by the magistrates, he reportedly showed neither despair nor contrition, but rather a quiet exultation, stating: "Like David, he had slain Goliath of Gath."
At his trial, GĂ©rard was sentenced to be brutally â?? even by the standards of that time â?? killed. The magistrates decreed that the right hand of GĂ©rard should be burned off with a red-hot iron, that his flesh should be torn from his bones with pincers in six different places, that he should be quartered and disemboweled alive, his heart torn from his bosom and flung in his face, and that, finally, his head should be taken off.[1]
GĂ©rard's torture was also very brutal. On the first night of his imprisonment GĂ©rard was hung on a pole and lashed with a whip. After that his wounds were smeared with honey and a goat was brought to lick the honey off his skin with his rough tongue. The goat however refused to touch the body of the sentenced. After this and other tortures he was left to pass the night with his hands and feet bound together, like a ball, so sleep would be difficult. During the following three days, he was repeatedly mocked and hung on a pole with his hands tied behind his back. Then a weight of 300 metric pounds (150 kg) was attached to each of his big toes for half an hour. After this half hour GĂ©rard was fitted with shoes made of well-oiled, uncured dog skin; the shoes were two fingers shorter than his feet. In this state he was put before a fire. When the shoes warmed up, they contracted, crushing the feet inside them to stumps. When the shoes were removed, his half-broiled skin was torn off. After his feet were damaged, his armpits were branded. After that he was dressed in a shirt soaked in alcohol. Then burning bacon fat was poured over him and sharp nails were stuck between the flesh and the nails of his hands and feet. GĂ©rard is said to have remained calm during his torture. On 14 July 1584, GĂ©rard was executed.[2][3]
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