Death by boiling

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Sikh Bhai Dayala by being boiled alive on the orders of Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb
in November 1675 AD

Death by boiling is a method of

execution in which a person is killed by being immersed in a boiling liquid. While not as common as other methods of execution, boiling to death has been practiced in many parts of Europe and Asia. Due to the lengthy process, death by boiling is an extremely painful method of execution. Executions of this type were often carried out using a large vessel such as a cauldron or a sealed kettle filled with a liquid such as water, oil, tar, or tallow, and a hook and pulley system.[1] Instances of boiling alive as a legal punishment were quite rare and infrequent compared to other forms of execution, such as drowning.[2]

Historical practice

Europe

In England, the use of boiling alive as a method of execution was rare.

high treason.[3] This arose from a February 1531 incident in which the Bishop of Rochester's cook, Richard Roose, gave several people poisoned porridge, resulting in two deaths.[4] A partial confession having been extracted by torture, the sentence was thus imposed by attainder and without benefit of clergy. His execution took place on April 15, 1532 at Smithfield.[2] A contemporary chronicle reports the following:[5]

He roared mighty loud, and divers women who were big with child did feel sick at the sight of what they saw, and were carried away half dead; and other men and women did not seem frightened by the boiling alive, but would prefer to see the headsman at his work.

Boiling to death was employed again in 1542 for a woman, Margaret Davy,

Edward VI, in 1547, the 1531 act was repealed.[2]

Numerous people have been boiled to death in

Melrose Chronicle, Adam of Melrose was "burned alive", rather than boiled, and Alexander II executed up to 400 for the crime against the clergy.[10]

Execution cauldron at Deventer (Netherlands)

William de Soules, a nobleman involved in a conspiracy against Robert the Bruce, was reputed to be a sorcerer consorting with evil spirits, and was boiled alive in 1321 at Ninestane Rig.[11] Around 1420, Melville, the sheriff of the Mearns and laird of Glenbervie, who was resented for his strictness, was apprehended by some other nobles and thrown into the kettle. The nobles are said to have each taken a spoonful of the brew afterwards.[12]

Boiling as an execution method was also used for

Danzig[15] and in 1471 in Stralsund.[16] Even as late as 1687, a man in Bremen was boiled to death in oil for having been of valuable help to some coin forgers who had escaped justice.[17]

In the Dutch town of Deventer, the kettle that was used for boiling criminals to death can still be seen.[18]

Asia

Execution of Ishikawa Goemon and his son

In 16th-century Japan, the semi-legendary Japanese bandit

Sukhmani of Guru Arjan as he died.[20]

Modern times

According to InSight Crime, of the 31,000 people killed by militants of Shining Path in Peru between 1980 and 2000, some were murdered by boiling.[21]

The government of Uzbekistan under Islam Karimov (1991-2016) has been alleged to have boiled suspected terrorists.[22]

In a

US Department of State document from 2004, the following is written:

During the year, there were no developments or investigations in the following 2002 deaths in custody: Mirzakomil Avazov and Khusnuddin Olimov, members of Hizb ut-Tahrir who were tortured to death in Jaslyk Prison in Karakalpakstan resulting in extensive bruises and burns, the latter reportedly caused by immersion in boiling water.[23]

Former ISIS commander Abu Abboud al-Raqqawi referred to ISIS's brutal execution methods, among which was boiling prisoners alive in engine oil:

Some people were boiled alive in oil. Engine oil. They burned wood on a fire for an hour before throwing the victim into boiling oil. It's the Tunisians who were responsible for that.[24]

In the 2010 documentary El Sicario, Room 164, the masked sicario interviewee claims that the Mexican cartels boil in oil those found to be working for the police.

Depictions in Western culture

Early reports of

Bagdad Café.[28]

Fromental Halévy's 1835 opera La Juive ends with Rachel (the title character) being boiled alive in a vat of oil after her relationship with the Christian prince Léopold is discovered by antisemitic state and church authorities.

References

  1. ^ Geoffrey Abbott, Amazing True Stories of Execution Blunders, pp. 21–22.
  2. ^ a b c d Andrews, William (1883-07-13). "Modes of execution - boiling alive". The Newcastle Weekly Courant. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
  3. ^ Anno 22 Henry VIII (1530–31), Chapter 9, in The Statutes of the Realm Vol. 3: The Statutes of King Henry VIII (By Command 1817), Reprint (Dawsons of Pall Mall, London, 1963), p. 326 Archived 2020-06-15 at the Wayback Machine (HathiTrust).
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  5. ^ Burke, S. Hubert (1870). The Men and Women of the English Reformation. London, United Kingdom: R. Washbourne. p. 240. Archived from the original on 2023-06-12. Retrieved 2023-03-13.
  6. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Boiling to Death". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 153.
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  8. ^ Leslie, Frank, Frank Leslie, and Ellery Sedgwick. 1876. Frank Leslie's popular monthly. [New York]: Frank Leslie Pub. House. p 343
  9. ^ John Pinkerton: "A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages, Volume 3", London 1809, p. 158. The same tradition is transmitted in The Scottish journal of topography, antiquities, traditions. Edinburgh: Stevenson and Menzies: 248. 1842. {{cite journal}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ Soc. Diff. Use. Knowl. (1842), p. 310 in Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1842). The Biographical Dictionary. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 310.
  11. ^ "The Complete Works of Sir Walter Scott, New York, 1833, p. 216.
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  16. ^ von Klemptzen, N.:"Nicolaus Klemzen vom Pommer-lande und dessen fürsten geschlecht-beschreibung", Stralsund 1771, p. 39.
  17. ^ "Blätter für literarische Unterhaltung, Volum 1, p. 116, review of "Taschenbuch für vaterländische Geschichte", Berlin 1843.
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  24. ^ "World-exclusive: Commander on the run tells of the terror inside ISIS". Archived from the original on 2017-10-14. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  25. ^ "Villagers apologize for cannibal ancestors eating missionary: Weird News, Strange But True Stories, Odd Facts, Bizarre". www.thatsweird.net. Archived from the original on 2010-07-19. Retrieved 2010-07-23.
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