The electric chair

The electric chair was a common way of carrying out the death sentence. 2000 volts pass through the victims body for fifteen seconds as the heart stops pumping. Also at the same time the victims temperature will rise to 60 Celsius severely damaging the internal organs.

Boiling to death

The victim is dipped into a big bowl and is usually filled with acid, water , and oil. It was a extremely painful and slow procedure

Burning alive

This was a 4 to five minute process in which the victim would be burned to death

Drowning to death

The victim would be killed just as it sounds. He/ she would be thrown into deep waters and would be weighed down with a series of stones to keep the victim down.

Hanged to death

This a very famous method where the victims throat would be broken.