- Before the Needles
 - Statistics and regional breakdowns of executions in America before the use of lethal injections. - Death of a Thousand Cuts
- Overview and discussion of famously slow and possibly mythical Chinese execution method .
- DPIC: Methods of Execution
- Reviews types of executions used in the United States, including a state-by-state breakdown.
- History of Execution Methods
- Describes popular methods of execution throughout history.
- Indian Mirror: Strange Administrative Customs
- Reviews unusual punishments in historical India, including execution by elephant.
- Wikipedia: Death by a Thousand Cuts
- Brief description of the execution method that may have been used in ancient China, where small bits of flesh were carved away over a period of days or weeks.
- Wikipedia: Disembowelment
- Article on the old form of capital punishment, also known as evisceration, where the vital organs are removed.
- Wikipedia: Sawing
- Brief description of the execution method used in the Spanish Inquisition where the condemned was hung upside down and then sawed apart down the middle, starting at the crotch.
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