CRUCIFIXION
Crucifixion is a form of execution in which a person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross (or tree) and left to hang until dead. It was a common mode of punishment among pagan nations in ancient times, but remains in occasional use in some countries today. It is arguably the cruelest form of death ever devised by man: Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC), an ancient Roman philosopher and orator, described it as “a most cruel and disgusting punishment,” and in 2009, Amnesty International condemned it as “the ultimate form of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.”