Engraving by Justus Lipsius of a vertical impalement
Impalement, as a method of torture and execution, is the penetration of a human by an object such as a stake, pole, spear, or hook, often by the complete or partial perforation of the torso. It was particularly used in response to "crimes against the state" and regarded across a number of cultures as a very harsh form of capital punishment and recorded in myth and art. Impalement was also used during times of war to suppress rebellions, punish traitors or collaborators, and punish breaches of military discipline.
Offences where impalement was occasionally employed included contempt for the state's responsibility for safe roads and trade routes by committing highway robbery or grave robbery, violating state policies or monopolies, or subverting standards for trade. Offenders have also been impaled for a variety of cultural, sexual, and religious reasons.
References to impalement in Babylonia and the Neo-Assyrian Empire are found as early as the 18th century BC.
spine, the impalement procedure would not damage the vital organs, and the person could survive for several days. Alternatively, the impalement could be...
Look up impaler in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An impaler is a person who inflicts impalement. Impaler may also refer to: The Impaler, nickname of...
known as Vlad Țepeș (or Vlad the Impaler) in Romanian historiography. This sobriquet is connected to the impalement that was his favorite method of execution...
injury. Impalement arts are often found in circuses and sideshows as well as sometimes in variety, cabaret or burlesque shows. In addition, impalement acts...
Cranial Impalement is the debut studio album by American death metal band Disgorge. It was released by Extremities Records in January 14, 1998 and re-released...
converted to Shaivism to escape the impalement. In the third version, the condition about the losers' impalement was put forward by Shiva (instead of...
folklore and other tales in which impalement is related to magical or supernatural properties, and the use of simulated impalement for the purposes of entertainment...
Impaled Nazarene is a Finnish extreme metal band that started as black metal but have incorporated elements of grindcore, thrash metal and death metal...
Nikos the Impaler is a 2003 z-grade splatter film directed by and starring German auteur Andreas Schnaas. It follows a reincarnated Romanian barbarian...
best known for a legend where he is wrongfully punished by a king by impalement. According to the Mahabharata, Mandavya was once performing a tapas with...
arms. For a time, dimidiation preceded the method known as impalement. Whereas impalement involves placing the whole of both coats of arms side by side...
Max the Impaler is an American professional wrestler currently signed to the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and the reigning NWA World Television Champion...
Terrorism" tour. The tour was followed shortly thereafter by the Grotesque Impalement EP, which the band again released on their own Blunt Force Records label...
records the use in the first century AD of the crux simplex ad infixionem (impalement), but does not mention the crux simplex ad affixionem; he seems to indicate...
I Was Impaled is an hour-long reality television docuseries show which depicts incidents in which real people were impaled on nonhuman objects and yet...
Release Jailbait 5 2010 Won Best Director, Ethnic Video Lex the Impaler 4 2011 Won Lex the Impaler 5 Won AVN Hall of Fame inductee — 2017 Nominated Best Director...
and gold mantling. Escutcheon Azure, three fleurs-de-lis Or (for France) impaling Gules on a chain in cross saltire and orle Or an emerald Proper (for Navarre)...
5.59 Morgan and Park treat Shamus O'Malley, a man with a giant marlin impaled in his leg and who is more worried about the fish's safety than his own;...
ways, of which the simplest is impalement: dividing the field per pale and putting one whole coat in each half. Impalement replaced the earlier dimidiation...
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