Boiling: Season Your Water

How do you punish someone when hanging, beheading, or burning just isn't brutal enough?

In this episode of Torture: A Dark History, Kevin Young and Dan Hourigan dive into the horrifying history of boiling alive, a punishment that has been used across centuries and continents against criminals, political enemies, religious dissenters, and anyone unfortunate enough to find themselves on the wrong side of the law.

We travel from medieval Scotland and Tudor England to Japan, India, France, and beyond, exploring infamous cases including Richard Rouse, Margaret Davy, Ishikawa Goemon, and Bhai Dayala. We'll look at the different ways boiling was carried out, why governments considered it an appropriate punishment, and what happens to the human body when exposed to extreme heat.

But just when you think this particular nightmare belongs safely in the past, we'll look at documented cases of boiling being used in the modern world, including political violence, prisons, terrorist organizations, and organized crime.

And because this is Torture: A Dark History, Kevin and Dan bring their own morbid sense of humor to an episode where the phrase "throw them in the pot" becomes considerably less funny.

If you love dad jokes, historical executions, boiling alive, medieval torture, Tudor history, Japanese history, religious persecution, true crime, dark history, and some of humanity's most horrifying punishments, this episode is going to leave you thinking twice about what's for dinner.

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