History ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill / RealLife

* German Battleship ''Scharnhorst'', a battlecruiser, was a much larger threat to British shipping than the ''Bismarck'' ever was. After an extensive and bloody career alongside her sister ship ''Gneisenau'', ''Scharnhorst'' was eventually singled out and sunk. The Royal Navy brought the ''Duke of York'' (a mainline battleship), one heavy cruiser, three light cruisers, and 9 destroyers together, and after some 12 hours of on-and-off battle in pitching seas and a blinding snowstorm, ''Scharnhorst'' finally went down by the bow - all serviceable guns still firing and screws still turning.

* The ''Tirpitz'', sister ship of the ''Bismarck'' was sunk in port by British Lancaster bombers using 12,000-pound Tallboy bombs. ''Tirpitz'' sustained at least two direct hits from these bombs, and a disputed number (between 1-4) of near misses. Even the bombs which missed were powerful enough to create blastwaves in the water that damaged the ship. The ''Tirpitz'' capsized not long after, and the fires started by the Tallboys detonated the ship's magazine. Battleship or not, throwing no less than 36,000 pounds (and possibly over 50,000 lbs) of high explosives at any one target has to be some kind of overkill. And that doesn't include the ''dozens'' of Tallboys that were dropped that did ''not'' score hits or near misses on ''Tirpitz'' (even with the best targeting devices of the day, high altitude bombing was not nearly as accurate as some other methods, but it was necessary as the Tallboy needed to be dropped from altitude in order to attain the speed needed for the penetrator to blow through heavy armour).

* William Slim's task when building Fourteenth Army in Burma? Prove to his men that the Japanese were not unbeatable supermen. His solution? Attack platoons with battalions and tackle companies with brigade groups; i.e., a dozen-to-one odds. His response to complaints that this was using a hammer to crack a nut? Hey, it works!

* To go along with Romanovs, Alexandra's sister Elizabeth was killed the next day. How so? Well, first they gathered her along with several prisoners and took them to another abandoned mineshaft, then proceeded to beat her and the prisoners. Then, they took everyone and pushed them down the mineshaft, throwing a grenade down there for good measure. Unfortunately, the grenade blast only killed one person. The reason they found out this only killed one person was that Elizabeth and the others [[{{Tearjerker}} began to sing a Russian Orthodox Hymn]]. Another grenade was thrown down, but the singing continued. Finally, the Bolsheviks decided to throw a bunch of brushwood into the shaft and set it alight. One guard was to stand by and watch this to make sure they were all dead. In early October, White Soldiers discovered the Bodies, and found that [[{{Tearjerker}} Elizabeth had managed to bandage one of those injured during the fall prior to her death]]. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Duke_John_and_Duchess_Elizabeth.jpg These were the bodies that were found (NSFW)]]. The Bolsheviks seem rather fond of overkill, now don't they?

* The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, where a number of associates of Bugs Moran's were obliterated in an apparent attempt on Moran's life (Moran was late leaving his hotel, so he wasn't there when it happened). Four hitmen from [[UsefulNotes/AlCapone Al Capone's]] organization showed up at the SMC Cartage warehouse, two of them in civilian clothes (overcoats and fedoras) and two dressed as police officers. The "officers" ordered the five gangsters, one optician, and one mechanic they found to line up against the wall. The two civilians then entered and proceeded to literally slam them against the wall with their tommy guns. After they finished, additional shotgun blasts from the fake policemen were used to obliterate James Clark's and John May's faces. Then, to make it look like everything was under control, the civilians left with the "officers" prodding them with billyclubs. If you want a good idea of what it looked like, see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-gYx7hXZg this.]] Oh, and ''[[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Zj8N22_5F-I/URzV6ZdKqAI/AAAAAAAABWI/X5kPv56_rJ8/s1600/massacre.photo2.jpg this]]'' was the aftermath, with some of the bodies an inch of skin away from being sawn in half, and blood, guts, and bone pooling all over the garage floor. The force of the bullets somehow sent James Clark slamming into the floor and Pete Gusenberg jammed in a chair, broke a saw, perforated hundreds of bricks, and caused massive collateral damage throughout. What's the most astonishing thing about is that one of the victims, Frank Gusenberg, actually lived for six hours despite being in horrific pain.

** The first known case of someone being "hanged, drawn, and quartered" was Dafydd ap Gruffydd, half-brother of the last legitimate (semi-)independent Prince of Wales, Llewelyn ap Gruffydd. In 1283, he had allegedly betrayed Llewelyn, and proclaimed himself the Prince of Wales instead. This was [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves after conning Llewelyn into betraying a peace he made with Edward I]]. When captured, Dafydd was dragged behind a horse through the streets of Shrewsbury (the "drawn" part), strangled nearly to death in a short-drop hanging ([[CaptainObvious the "hanged" part]]), then eviscerated alive, then had his arms, legs, and head cut off (the "quartered" part) and sent to the far reaches of England as a warning against the crime of "high treason".[[note]]There's no evidence Dafydd was castrated, but his remaining legitimate sons were imprisoned for the rest of their lives--effectively disinheriting them--and his daughters were put in convents.[[/note]] It would become the typical punishment for "high treason" in England, Great Britain, and ultimately the United Kingdom for nearly 600 years to come. Its most famous use was the execution of Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace in 1305, as depicted in the 1995 film ''Film/{{Braveheart}}''.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Travis_Alexander The 2008 killing of Travis Alexander]] in Arizona: He had been shot in the face, his throat was slit from ear to ear, and he had been stabbed 29 times. A medical examiner determined that he may have been dead already by the time he had been shot. Although Arizona had by then outlawed the "insanity" defense, Arias' defense team had her claim that she was a victim of physical and emotional abuse; Alexander had been seeing several women during their relationship, and that might have explained the repeated stabbings in an obvious rage. The "battered woman" defense did not succeed, as Arias was convicted of capital murder, but since the jury deadlocked on imposing the death penalty, she was sentenced to life in prison w/o parole.

** On July 16, 1936, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihai_Stelescu Mihai Stelescu]] was shot in his hospital bed [[MoreDakka between 38 and]] [[CruelAndUnusualDeath about 200 times]] before being cut him into pieces with axes by the ''[[RightWingMilitiaFanatic Decemviri]]'', an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Guard_death_squads#Decemviri Iron Guard death squad]], who then [[AngryDance danced around his body]]. His crime: [[ResignationsNotAccepted leaving the ''Iron Guard'']] and [[StartMyOwn starting another nationalist organization]]. [[SinisterMinister Four of those involved in Stelescu's execution were theology students]].

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh_bath_chair_murder Rayleigh bath chair murder]] in Britain during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. A soldier named Eric Brown was fed up with his disabled father's abusive treatment of his mother and himself. His reaction? Steal an anti-tank mine from an armory and hide it in his dad's wheelchair. His father's nurse suffered leg injuries and bits of his father had to be recovered from several neighborhood gardens.
* In two separate shooting sprees in New Orleans, 23-year old Mark Essex killed 9 people (including five police officers) and wounded another dozen on Dec 31, 1973 and January 7th, 1974. After cornering Essex on a hotel rooftop, Police shot him to pieces with snipers from the surrounding buildings and further riddled him with bullets from a team of officers deployed in a CH-46 helicopter the NOPD had called in from a nearby Marine Corp base. A subsequent autopsy determined Essex had been shot more than 200 times.
* Richard Huckle, an English [[PaedoHunt child predator]] and [[SerialRapist rapist]] who was convicted of 71 charges involving Malaysian children, was found dead on 13 October, 2019 after his cell mate Paul Fitzgerald tortured him to death in an attack that lasted over an hour. Huckle was strangled by an electrical cable sheathe; [[PrisonRape raped]]; repeatedly hit on the floor hard enough to break his jaw; punched; stabbed in the neck; penetrated in the anus by a spoon handle; and had a pen jammed up his nostril into his brain. Fitzgerald was subsequently convicted of murdering Huckle, and admitted he had wanted to [[ImAHumanitarian cook and eat]] parts of Huckle's body.

* UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson's assassination attempt against his former vice-president Aaron Burr in the early 1800s. The idea was to have Burr framed for treason, but as the charges kept getting dismissed on lack of evidence, Jefferson [[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thomas-jefferson-aaron-burr-and-american-way-treason-180962573/ tried everything]] from forging evidence to bribing ''over one-hundred'' witnesses to ''installing a temporary military dictatorship in New Orleans'', raiding mail, ''trying to have the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court impeached'', and then trying to introduce legislation that would give him the power to arbitrarily impeach any judge. At one point, he authorized General James Wilkinson to essentially do whatever he had to kill Burr, which led to a force of ''two-hundred-and-seventy-five'' soldiers being sent to arrest the guy. When Burr somehow escaped and was eventually tried and acquitted (again) by the Supreme Court, before escaping to Europe, Jefferson implicitly threatened England with ''war'' if they harbored Burr.

* This is [[CommonKnowledge reputedly]] how the murder of the Russian monk [[RasputinianDeath Grigori Rasputin]] took place in 1916. It's said that he was given four poisoned cupcakes and a bottle of poisoned wine (which had no effect), then shot in the chest six times, castrated, wrapped up in a blanket and thrown into the deathly cold Neva river, and pushed under the ice, which he tried to claw himself out of. His cause of death was then reported as ''asphyxiation by drowning and hypothermia''. However, these are myths instigated by his political enemies to make him seem like a semi-invincible force of evil. In reality, after he didn't eat the cakes and just sipped a bit of wine, he was shot twice in the body and [[BoomHeadshot once in the head]] and died instantly and his body dumped into the river; the reports of him trying to "claw his way out" was likely caused by his corpse floating under the ice due to the slow current not sweeping him away as expected.

* Operation Paul Bunyan, where the US and South Korea deployed engineers, security guards, backed by utility copters, artillery, gunships and more to... cut down a 100-ft poplar tree. However, considering they were dealing with North Korea in response to the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_axe_murder_incident axe murder incident]], it also doubles as GunboatDiplomacy.

* After the Bolsheviks herded the Romanovs in a room, they opened fire with handguns at point-blank range. While the Tsar and Tsarina died near instantly, his children weren't exactly as lucky due to the fact that the children had hidden a ''huge'' amount of jewels in their clothing, which acted as armor. Cue the 20 minute long repeated bayonetings and shootings of the children. Alexei was particularly hard to kill, despite his hemophilia; he was stabbed numerous times in the chest before being shot a few more times in the head. The girls suffered a similar fate, though it wasn't nearly as prolonged. One of the girls had Olga's brain matter splatter in her face before being knifed to death herself. Unfortunately, when they were hauling all 11 bodies (this includes a maid, their doctor, and such along with the family), one of the girls (either Anastasia or Maria) was still alive. She proceeded to sit up, cover her ears, and scream wildly until several Bolshevik henchmen came over to finally shoot her dead. Then they drove the bodies to a mine shaft, stripped them, and then threw them all into the mine shaft before chucking several hand grenades in, hoping that the mine would partially collapse and conceal their handiwork. Unfortunately, the next day, word had gotten out that ''something'' had happened near the mine shaft, so later that night the Bolsheviks went back, got the bodies, and drove them to a more remote area where they proceeded to bash the Romanov corpse's skulls in so their faces wouldn't be recognizable, then tossed the bodies onto a burning pyre and doused them with acid.

* After the Bolsheviks herded the Romanovs in a room, they opened fire with handguns at point-blank range. While the Tsar and Tsarina died near instantly, his children weren't exactly as lucky due to the fact that the children had hidden a ''huge'' amount of jewels in their clothing, which acted as armor. Cue the 20 minute long repeated stabbings and shootings of the children. Alexei was particularly hard to kill, despite his hemophilia; he was stabbed numerous times in the chest before being shot in the few times in the head. The girls suffered a similar fate, though it wasn't nearly as prolonged. One of the girls had Olga's brain matter splatter in her face before being knifed to death herself. Unfortunately, when they were hauling all 11 bodies (this includes a maid, their doctor, and such along with the family), one of the girls (either Anastasia or Maria) was still alive. She proceeded to sit up, cover her ears, and scream wildly until several Bolshevik henchmen came over to finally shoot her dead. Then they drove the bodies to a mine shaft, stripped them, and then threw them all into the mine shaft before chucking several hand grenades in, hoping that the mine would partially collapse and conceal their handiwork. Unfortunately, the next day, word had gotten out that ''something'' had happened near the mine shaft, so later that night the Bolsheviks went back, got the bodies, and drove them to a more remote area where they proceeded to bash the Romanov corpse's skulls in so their faces wouldn't be recognizable, then tossed the bodies onto a burning pyre and doused them with acid.

* After the Bolsheviks herded the Romanovs in a room, they opened fire with their Nagant revolvers. While the Tsar and Tsarina died near instantly, his children weren't exactly as lucky due to the fact that the children had hidden a ''huge'' amount of jewels in their clothing, which acted as armor. Cue the 20 minute long repeated stabbings and shootings of the children. Alexei was particularly hard to kill, despite his hemophilia; he was stabbed numerous times in the chest before being shot in the few times in the head. The girls suffered a similar fate, though it wasn't nearly as prolonged. One of the girls had Olga's brain matter splatter in her face before being knifed to death herself. Unfortunately, when they were hauling all 11 bodies (this includes a maid, their doctor, and such along with the family), one of the girls (either Anastasia or Maria) was still alive. She proceeded to sit up, cover her ears, and scream wildly until several Bolshevik henchmen came over to finally shoot her dead. Then they drove the bodies to a mine shaft, stripped them, and then threw them all into the mine shaft before chucking several hand grenades in, hoping that the mine would partially collapse and conceal their handiwork. Unfortunately, the next day, word had gotten out that ''something'' had happened near the mine shaft, so later that night the Bolsheviks went back, got the bodies, and drove them to a more remote area where they proceeded to bash the Romanov corpse's skulls in so their faces wouldn't be recognizable, then tossed the bodies onto a burning pyre and doused them with acid.

* During the [[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution Decena Trágica]], the death of Gustavo Madero (brother of the president Francisco I. Madero) was notorious for how gruesome it was. A mob of soldiers loyal to Victoriano Huerta threw him into a courtyard by insulting him, then kicking, slapping, punching, stabbing and caning him until his face was swollen by the beatings, where he was [[EyeScream blinded from his remaining eye with a bayonet]] by one of them, while the other soldiers stabbed him with knives and swords, all while Manuel Mondragón watched with glee; once they had their fun, he was shot 21 times, and then the soldiers further defiled the corpse by ripping off organs out of it and throwing dirt and manure onto the remains of the corpse.

** Case in point: The USS ''Wisconsin'' on 15 March, [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar 1952]]. While shelling railroad infrastructure along the North Korean coast, an NK 152mm artillery battery [[BullyingADragon made the mistake of challenging]] the ''Wisconsin'' [[TooDumbToLive to a fight]], bracketing the ship with shells and actually managing to score a direct hit on one of the ship's 40mm guns, [[PaperCutting dealing minor damage to it]]. Whatever elation they felt at hitting the ship, however, likely quickly turned to absolute [[BringMyBrownPants pants-shitting]] [[OhCrap terror]] when the ''Wisconsin'' adjusted its course and replied to the attack with a ''[[https://imgur.com/qpYIzRK full broadside]]'' of its nine '''16-inch''' (406 mm) main guns. After the North Korean artillery position and much of the surrounding area had been replaced with a crater, the ship escorting the ''Wisconsin'' sent a signal lamp message to the battleship: "Temper, temper, ''Wisconsin.''"

* OlderThanDirt: Around 1555 BCE, King Seqenenre Tao of the [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgyptianHistory Seventeenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt]], ruler of Upper Egypt (i.e. southern Egypt), waged a war of national liberation and unification against the foreign Fifteenth Dynasty that ruled Lower Egypt. At some point, it seems he lost a critical battle and was captured by the northerners. After his capture, his hands were tied behind his back and was brutally executed. Analysis of his mummy shows that his captors struck his temple with an axe, pierced his skull end to end with a spear, beat his body with maces and clubs, and stabbed him repeatedly with daggers or small swords. They then sent his body up the Nile to his countrymen, apparently still in hogtie, so he could be mummified and buried (because hey, just because you brutally executed a man doesn't mean you have to offend the gods by not allowing him to have a proper funeral). The mummification bit is important, because the only reason we know any of this is that his mummy survives, and forensic examination of the mummy show all the wounds of this distinctive death. (The Egyptians were loth to write down the circumstances of anyone's death, doubly so when it was a king, so there's no written record of Seqenenre Tao's execution.)

* OlderThanDirt: Around 1555 BCE, King Seqenenre Tao of the [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgyptianHistory Seventeenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt]], ruler of Upper Egypt (i.e. southern Egypt), waged a war of national liberation and unification against the foreign Fifteenth Dynasty that ruled Lower Egypt. At some point, it seems he lost a critical battle and was captured by the northerners. After his capture, his hands were tied behind his back and was brutally executed. Analysis of his mummy shows that his captors struck his temple with an axe, pierced his skull end to end with a spear, beat his body with maces and clubs, and stabbed him repeatedly with daggers or small swords. They then sent his body up the Nile to his countrymen, apparently still in hogtie, so he could be mummified and buried (because hey, just because you brutally executed a man doesn't mean you have to offend the gods by not allowing him to have a proper funeral). The mummification bit is important, because the only reason we know any of this is that his mummy survives, and forensic examination of the mummy show all the wounds of this distinctive death. (The Egyptians were loth to write down the circumstances of anyone's death, doubly so when it was a king, so there's no written record of these events.)

* OlderThanDirt: Around 1555 BCE, King Seqenenre Tao of the [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgyptianHistory Seventeenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt]], ruler of Upper Egypt (i.e. southern Egypt), waged a war of national liberation and unification against the foreign Fifteenth Dynasty that ruled Lower Egypt. At some point, it seems he lost a critical battle and was captured by the northerners. After his capture, his hands were tied behind his back and was brutally executed. Analysis of his mummy shows that his captors struck his temple with an axe, pierced his skull end to end with a spear, beat his body with maces and clubs, and stabbed him repeatedly with daggers or small swords. They then sent his body up the Nile to his countrymen, apparently still in hogtie, so he could be mummified and buried (because hey, just because you brutally executed a man doesn't mean you have to offend the gods by not allowing him to have a proper funeral).

* OlderThanDirt: Around 1555 BCE, King Seqenenre Tao of the [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgyptianHistory Seventeenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt]], ruler of Upper Egypt (i.e. southern Egypt), waged a war of national liberation and unification against the foreign Fifteenth Dynasty that ruled Lower Egypt. At some point, it seems he lost a critical battle and was captured by the northerners. After his capture, his hands were tied behind his back and was brutally executed. Analysis of his mummy shows that his captors struck his temple with an axe, pierced his skull end to end with a spear, beat his body with maces and clubs, and stabbed him repeatedly with daggers or small swords. They then sent his body up the Nile to his countrymen, apparently still in hogtie, so he could be mummified and buried (because hey, just because you brutally executed a man doesn't mean you have to offend the gods by not allowing him to be properly buried).

* Back in the 1960s, the people behind the development of the OrionDrive - the idea of using pulsed nuclear detonations to push large spacecrafts with specially-designed pusher plates through space - once proposed various weaponized versions of their Orion spacecraft designs, the pinnacle of which was the [[http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns2.php#id--Project_Orion--Orion_Battleship Orion Battleship]]. The Orion Battleship is a 4000 ton monster with 11,000 cubic meters of internal volume which is armed to the teeth, with not only three Mk-42 5-inch naval turrets and six 20mm CIWS turrets, but also 500 missiles which could be fired from 3 banks of 30 silos each (90 in total) each of them tipped with a ''20 megaton thermonuclear warhead'', as well as hundreds of 'Casaba-Howitzer' bolts (think ''nuclear''-shape charges that can spear targets with lances of directed, focused nuclear fire) which could be fired from six launchers, and six hypersonic landing boats/nuclear bombers. This thing had enough firepower to wipe out whatever space forces the Soviet Union could build and launch and still have enough to wipe the Soviet Union itself (if not the entire ''continent'' it is on) from the face of the Earth. President Kennedy and others in the US government [[EveryoneHasStandards was reportedly so]] ''[[EveryoneHasStandards horrified]]'' [[EveryoneHasStandards by the proposal]] (which was pitched by the designers complete with a car-sized model of the whole thing) it [[NiceJobBreakingItHero led/contributed to the cancellation of the whole project]].

--->"We don’t care what you do to each other in your clan feuds, but stay on your side of the border. If you come into British India, we will come after you with everything we have, kill you, kill your relations, kill every member of your clan, burn down your villages, and kill your goats. Nothing will remain.\\

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Travis_Alexander The 2008 killing of Travis Alexander]] in Arizona: He had been shot in the face, his throat was slit from ear to ear, and he had been stabbed 29 times. A medical examiner determined that he may have been dead already by the time he had been shot.

** Case in point: The USS ''Wisconsin'' on 15 March, [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar 1952]]. While shelling railroad infrastructure along the North Korean coast, an NK 152mm artillery battery [[BullyingADragon made the mistake of challenging]] the ''Wisconsin'' [[TooDumbToLive to a fight]], bracketing the ship with shells and actually managing to score a direct hit on one of the ship's 40mm guns, [[PaperCutting dealing minor damage to it]]. Whatever elation they felt at hitting the ship, however, likely quickly turned to absolute [[BringMyBrownPants pants-shitting]] [[OhCrap terror]] when the ''Wisconsin'' adjusted its course and replied to the attack with a ''[[https://imgur.com/qpYIzRK full broadside]]'' of its '''16-inch''' (406 mm) main guns. After the North Korean artillery position and much of the surrounding area had been replaced with a crater, the ship escorting the ''Wisconsin'' sent a signal lamp message to the battleship: "Temper, temper, ''Wisconsin.''"

* In two separate shooting sprees in New Orleans, 23-year old Mark Essex killed 9 people (including five police officers) and wounded another dozen on Dec 31, 1973 and January 7th, 1974. After corning Essex on a hotel rooftop, Police shot him to pieces with snipers from the surrounding buildings and further riddled him with bullets from a team of officers deployed in a CH-46 helicopter the NOPD had called in from a nearby Marine Corp base. A subsequent autopsy determined Essex had been shot more than 200 times.

* The use of the M1 Abrams for urban warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan is seen like this since the tank was designed to take on Soviet tanks en masse on open terrain, which they did easily at the beginning of both wars. Never mind a tank is much [[GeoEffects more vulnerable]] in a city than on open terrain.

** Case in point: The USS ''Wisconsin'' on 15 March, [[UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar 1952]]. While shelling railroad infrastructure along the North Korean coast, an NK 152mm artillery battery [[BullyingADragon made the mistake of challenging]] the ''Wisconsin'' [[TooDumbToLive to a fight]], bracketing the ship with shells and actually managing to score a direct hit on one of the ship's 40mm guns. Whatever elation they felt at hitting the ship, however, likely quickly turned to [[BringMyBrownPants pants-shitting]] [[OhCrap dread]] when the ''Wisconsin'' adjusted its course and replied to the attack with a ''[[https://imgur.com/qpYIzRK full broadside]]'' of its '''16-inch''' (406 mm) main guns. After the North Korean artillery position had been replaced with a crater, the ship escorting the ''Wisconsin'' sent a signal lamp message to the battleship: "Temper, temper, ''Wisconsin.''"

* During Operation Praying Mantis in the 1980s, an Iranian frigate decided to challenge an American surface action group. Three American ships opened fire with guns and missiles. After multiple gun rounds and six Standard Missiles from the first two ships had impacted, the captain of the third ship decided that he would make sure and fired a Harpoon anti-ship missile. By the time it arrived at the frigate's location, ''there weren't any pieces of the frigate left floating that were large enough for the missile to lock onto.''

* Blowing from a gun is a method of execution practiced for centuries on the Indian subcontinent, especially under UsefulNotes/TheRaj. To quote Wiki/TheOtherWiki: "… the victim is typically tied to the mouth of a cannon which is then fired, often resulting in death". Wait, ''often''!?

* Medium Atomic Demolition Munition (MADM), or if you would prefer: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Atomic_Demolition_Munition Nuclear Landmines.]] [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The name says it all.]] It's even the page image for Overkill on Wiki/TheOtherWiki.

* George Pullman was so hated by some of his former employees that his family was afraid they or other union supporters would dig up and desecrate Pullman's body or hold it for ransom. They arranged for Pullman to be buried in a lead lined coffin that was sealed in a concrete box, which was then covered in tar paper and asphalt. The coffin was lowered into a concrete lined pit at Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. A layer of concrete was poured over the coffin, then steel rails bolted together were placed in the pit, and all that was covered by yet another layer of concrete. The burial took two days to complete. Author Ambrose Bierce said of the precautions that, "It is clear the family in their bereavement was making sure the sonofabitch wasn't going to get up and come back."

* One of the most notorious [[PaedoHunt child predators]] and [[SerialRapist rapists]], Richard Huckle was given a brutal death and torture in jail by his cellmate Paul Fitzgerald. He was strangled by an electrical cable sheathe, inserting a pen into his brain through the nostril, [[PrisonRape raped]], had been hit on the floor multiple times hard enough to break his jaw, been punched, stabbed in the neck and [[AnalProbe had his anus penetrated by a spoon handle]] in a 78 minute attack, and would've [[ImAHumanitarian been eaten]] if it wasn't for the police stopping Paul.

* One of the most notorious [[HarmfulToMinors child predators]] and [[SerialRapist rapists]], Richard Huckle was given a brutal death and torture in jail by his cellmate Paul Fitzgerald. He was strangled by an electrical cable sheathe, inserting a pen into his brain through the nostril, raped, had been hit on the floor multiple times hard enough to break his jaw, been punched, stabbed in the neck and had his anus penetrated by a spoon handle in a 78 minute attack, and would've been eaten if it wasn't for the police stopping Paul.