The ways in which people were killed in this early period, though, often mirrored what they did if you were an arsenis. They drowned a lot of people for a lot of crimes. Hang ou decapitate you, break you on the wheel. Any number of things right now. You hit your murder victim with a hammer. So we hit you with one. And even when the era of actually despatching people that way, ou no, started to go away in some places. In fact, historian richard evans says, crowd sizes showing up to germany at their very highest when the practice is done away with.