Impalement

I will introduce extremely harsh punishment for those who not only use illegal drugs, I will fight to make dealers serve life in prison, or better yet, Impalement.

Archive 2006-01-08 Bill Crider 2006

Oscarmonm @ 78 – good on ya. forgot to add that as recently as last week establishment type Censure/Impalement, whoops, Impeachment polls were up to 54%

Firedoglake » Getting a Search Warrant? How Quaint! 2006

Impalement is an interesting punishment that was quite popular in the Middle Ages.

Sweetblood Pete Hautman 2003

( "Impalement on charred stakes, finger nails split off backwards, finger joints chewed off, eyes burnt out ... [and others] which cannot even be hinted at, especially when women are the victims.")

The Performer Baker, Russell 2002

"Impalement would be too good for you, traitor of Ar!" said the officer.

Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

Impalement on charred stakes, finger-nails split off backwards, finger-joints chewed off, eyes burned out -- these tortures can be mentioned, but there are others equally normal and customary which cannot even be hinted at, especially when women are the victims.

The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

"Dimidiation by Impalement" can be found since the time of Henry VIII.

Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

It is to be observed that _Bordures_ and _Tressures_, which are not affected by Quartering, are _dimidiated by Impalement_, -- that is, that side of both a Bordure and a Tressure which adjoins the line of

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

Impalement is generally removed: thus, one of the small Shields sculptured upon the canopy of the monument of Queen MARY STUART, at

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

For the former, a new Javelin Gun can be used to shoot off long spiked objects at oncoming enemies - the result is a method of mutilation known as Impalement.

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