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They have only scratched the surface of what’s possible in the realm of torture and barbaric killings.

Vlad the Impaler, thought by some to be the inspiration for the fictional character Dracula, preferred impaling as a method of killing. He had thousands impaled. Put them on a sharpened pole, where they would be slowly killed as it forced itself into their bodies mainly by their own squirming. He had people impaled as entertainment while he had dinner.

He also was visited by a group of Turks, mortal enemies, who refused to remove their headgear while dining. So he had their hats stapled to their heads.

He gathered all the beggars in the city together for a fine banquet, and asked them what else they would want. And end to their poverty, all their desires tended to...they thought that was excellent...he had the building boarded shut and set on fire.

The Inquisition...infamous in the 14th century for its efforts to rout out and eliminate heretics. Torture was allowed by the Pope but could not result in bloodshed, which led to such interesting developments as thumbscrews and the rack. Torture could also only be done once, so rather than recording a session as ended, when a person passed out they would record it as a intermission and continue again later.

People would be tied to a large wheel with a fire built under it. The victim’s feet would be rolled downward into the fire then removed, and again and again until the confessed to heresy.

In other cases they would be hung from the rafters by their hands, with weights tied to their feet, then dropped several feet suddenly, resulting in dislocation of numerous joints.

If such torture resulted in death, the victim was said to have committed suicide. I can’t remember their pother excuse...I have a good book on this, the most evil people in the past several centuries ranging from Caesar and Nero to Idi Amin.

ISIS is only beginning to reach into the depths of human depravity. They can’t come up with much that hasn’t already been done and in many cases surpassed...One of Hitler’s thugs, Joseph Mengele was called the angel of death. Some of his experiments involved injecting battery acid and other chemicals into people’s veins, forcing them into near freezing water to find out how long they could live, same for heated water...Ilsa Koch, called the Bitch of Buchenwald had tattoed human skins tanned and had gloves and lampshades made from them. She would have prisoners lined up and she and the camp’s “ladies” would pick out the best looking skins...she also organized orgies with prisoners as sex objects, often resulting in torture. They had people skinned alive...I think I read a while back that Mengele had people dissected alive...

Caesar and Nero had the famous gladiator games, where fighters would be pitted against wild animals such as lions, bears, bulls, and such...and these were attended by thousands of the local population. I think it was Caesar who forced one of his political enemies to use his sword on himself...

ISIS is only scratching the surface. Be glad they haven’t studied history too carefully...