Death by Drowning: A Medieval Execution of Breathtaking Suffering...

Medieval Madness - A podcast by Hit The Lights

Over thousands of years human beings have spent an inordinate amount of time working out how to kill one another. So, it wasn’t long before they had the idea of using drowning as a form of lethal punishment. And regardless of the beliefs of the Medievals it wasn’t as pain free or as instantaneous as they thought.