Criminals Were Dismembered On The Rack
Criminals Were Dismembered On The Rack
The rack was a form of torture and punishment commonly associated with the medieval era, but it originated in ancient history.
The criminal was tied down by their limbs, and the executioner spun a crank, which pulled the criminal’s limbs apart.
The punished was stretched until their limbs were dislocated, and there were moments when the condemned's limbs were completely separated from their body.
Emperor Nero used the rack to force a confession of an assassination conspiracy from one of the head conspirators, Epicharis.
On the first day, the rack dislocated her legs so by the second day she was unable to walk herself to the rack.
Rather than suffer the rack, she tied a noose around her neck and used her body weight to suffocate herself.

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