nsur1
Governor
From this screenshot posted to the other thread, it seems the actual clip ran longer than the edit I have posted -- I found the video online, so I don't know why it stops at that particular point. Possibly because it was part of a collection on "nudity in mainstream TV/movies", and you can't see any nudity once the execution actually started:This is a video of the naked torture/execution by pressing scene from the BBC adaptation of "Gunpowder", in 720p HD resolution. Previously discussed in a separate thread at the link below, but probably for posterity easier to find in this collective thread:
"gunpowder" Bbc1 Naked Female Execution
I was watching episode 1 of "Gunpowder" on Saturday and was quite surprised when the executioner said: "The law demands that you die naked", stripped the condemned woman, tied her spread-eagled and placed a board and heavy weights on her until she died! The woman in the scene is elderly which...www.cruxforums.com
Also already posted in the other thread , here is a historical image of the particular execution shown in the BBC clip -- the execution of Margaret Clitherow in 1586, as depicted in a print published in Antwerp the following year: