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.

0:00 Introduction
2:49 Drowning
3:53 The Penalty of the Sack
5:24 What a Way to Go
8:03 Gallow and Pit
9:25 Drowning Pools

Music by CO.AG:    / @co.agmusic  

Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by James Wade

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