Falling (execution)
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falling-execution-166-10501207
title:
Falling (execution)
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Throwing or dropping people from great heights has been used as a form of execution since ancient times. People executed in this way die from injuries caused by hitting the ground at high speed. In ancient Delphi, the sacrilegious were hurled from the top of the Hyampeia, the high crag of the Phaedriades to the east of the Castalian Spring. In pre-Roman Sardinia, elderly people who were unable to support themselves were ritually killed. They were intoxicated with a neurotoxic plant known as the
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_(execution)
date created:
2009-08-21T01:49:24Z
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2024-08-29T21:47:52Z
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