Strapped to a chair and electrocuted through electrodes placed on the body.

Death by separation of head from body.

An apparatus for killing humans, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced.

Method of capital punishment, particularly common in the military and in times of war.

Method where executioner tightens a metal band around the condemned's neck until his/her neck breaks or dies of suffocation.

Drowning is often considered less brutal and is used often on women.

The person dies in a ritual sacrifice that may or may not be voluntary.

Put to death by suspension by the neck.

Bound to a stake and burned alive.

Injecting a person with a fatal dose of drugs for the express purpose of causing the immediate death of the subject.

Capital punishment whereby an organized group throws stones at an individual until the person dies.

An ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a wooden cross and left to hang until dead.

A form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. Used in placed of executions for samurais.

Other alternative forms of execution.