You know, for once, Reddit heartens me.

For reasons probably related to my rocky relationship with my parents, I've always had a morbid fear of execution. As such, I probably know entirely too much about it. And I gotta tell ya - the stuff you guys are coming up with is substantially kinder than the stuff that has been practiced for thousands of years.

My personal least-fave would be impalement. This shit still happens in rare corners of the world; you can find videos but I won't link them. Vlad The Impaler got his name by ordering such things 30,000 victims at a time.

When James Clavell's Shogun aired backintheday, they have some pretty graphic scenes of people being boiled alive. I've never really shaken that one off, either.

The Catherine Wheel has always struck me as particularly horrid, although if I had to choose between being beaten to death or having a pike push my entrails out of the way while I stood involuntarily for crows to peck out my eyes, I'd go blunt force trauma. What I find particularly disturbing, however, is how fucking proud some people were of the terrible things.

Scaphism is something I wouldn't have thought of. I'm rather proud of that. Click if you're curious. Before I found out about it I thought Mussolini and his castor oil craze were insidious and evil, but upon reflection, the Persians had him licked.

Perhaps I'm mellowing with age, however. a tortuous death, no matter how prolonged, is still just a death. So my true answer is probably

"Unfulfilled."