Catrell: There are accounts of hangings that make it sound like the condemned seem to die almost instant and those definitely are throughout the historical record. Then there's stuff like burning, which once again, conjures up the worst of the worst terrorist groups to day in the deliberately mediaeval period. Some estimates as high as a hundred thousand people burned for witchcraft crimes in german alone during this broad period. And it wasn't just women, although it usually was. Elthat depends also, and there's a lot of famous ones. You know, joan of arc comes to mind, right?