Believed to have been conjured up during the late Middle Ages, it’s perhaps so bad because it won’t instantly kill you. In fact, if you did end up dying because of it, it would be quite the long, slow ...

From the horrific heretic fork to the Brazen Bull or the Breaking Wheel, there’s plenty of deadly examples. And one ‘fire seat’ torture method is hailed by some for causing the ‘cruellest’ death in ...

While some of these torture creations seem quite complex (there’s one that would wound your tongue if you spoke) a simpler yet horrific method is described as ‘one of the worst ways to die’ in history ...