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Most Brutal And Horrific Form Of Execution In The Acient History. - Education

Consider yourself lucky if you are reading this, you most likely not to have lived in a society with extreme judgements, sentences, and punishments. Back in the good old days if you did something wrong, for example stole a goat, chicken, Adultery, you were pretty much assured being handed a death sentence. In those days there was no hanging around on Death Row, contemplating the errors of your ways whilst waiting for some form of humane, painless death. Executions in the ancient history seems to be so barbaric and devices used were built with careful engineering to push the guilty to feel extreme and prolonged pain before death. The forms of execution listed below really are so barbaric that you might question your faith in human nature. Blowing from the gun. With the invention of the cannon came this wonderfully imaginative way of executing enemy combatants. The basic method was to tie the unfortunate victim to the barrel of a cannon and fire it. Horrific as this sounds I imagine it w
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THE HEROIC DEATH OF HAROLD JOSEPH MATHEWS, JR. HE WAS HONORED.

THE HEROIC DEATH OF HAROLD JOSEPH MATHEWS, JR. HE WAS HONORED.

On this day lost, but never forgotten... Harold Joseph Mathews, Jr. was born on January 23, 1947, to Harold and Margaret Mathews.


His grew up in Butler, NJ with his brother, John. He graduated from Butler High School in 1964. Harold enjoyed riding motorcycles, on and off road. He also held a job at a paint store.

Harold served in the US Marine Corps and attained the rank of Private First Class (PFC). Prior to being sent to Vietnam, he completed additional training at the Defense Language Institute in California. He was assigned to Delta Company 1st Battalion 5th Marines 1st Division.

Mathews was killed in action on September 11, 1968. He is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery on Germantown Road in West Milford, NJ. He was survived by his parents, brother and wife, Barbara.

Mathews received numerous awards and medals. Some of these include the Vietnam Service Medal, the Vietnam Gallantry Medal and the Purple Heart.

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On this day lost, but never forgotten... Wesley G. Doty was born on September 9, 1948. His home of record is Sussex, NJ. He lived his whole life in Sussex County. He had one sister, Shirley, and a half brother, George.


He graduated from High Point Regional High School in 1967 and enlisted in the US Navy in July of the same year. In 1950, his half brother, George Doty of Kenvil, NJ, who was 20 at the time, was killed in combat in Korea.

Doty completed his boot camp training at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and after a leave at home, returned to the station for 16 weeks of schooling in diesel mechanics. He left the United States on July 2nd on the USS Hunterdon County. He attained the rank of FN (Fireman).

On September 12, 1968, while on board the USS Hunterdon County on the Ham Luong River at Ben Tre in South Vietnam, Doty died as a result of wounds sustained while engaging the enemy in combat. He was 20 years old.

He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and he also earned the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Ribbon Bar during his naval service.

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