I have to say being burned to death scares the hell out of me the most
Being roasted in flames I can’t even imagine
Burned alive is to my mind the worst. We all know how excruciating it feels when you burn yourself say with a match for a fraction of a second, and its hard to imagine how not being able to pull your hand away and every part of your body experiencing that same torment would be.
It was the standard execution for heresy throughout Europe during the middle ages.
Joan of Ark was placed about fifteen feet above the ground as they wanted the huge crowd to be able to get a good view. We know that the hottest part is not the flame itself but the invisible part directly above the flame. Just imaging what she must have felt as that degree of heat reached the grate she was perched on, and that chained to it she couldn't pull away. Did she still think God had sent her?
It makes me wonder why executions had to be so cruel. Hung. Drawn & Quartered for example - what tortured and demented mind/s thought that up?
Of course, the Roman Catholic Church always insisted that they never executed anybody.
This is true but they did know their findings would result in that person being either executed or not. Very good then for such a huge institution to admit they got it all wrong with Joan back in the 15th century, and now in the 20th century it was found that she was not only not guilty of 'Heresy', but was in fact a saint which not even she claimed she would be.