These simple sentences are loaded with pain. The place was dreadful enough; its popular name was full of dramatic foreboding, and the public executions were gruesome. Crucifixion was intended to be very painful, as a serious public deterrent to other criminals, as well as a personal punishment for the crime which had been committed. Nailed to a cross, the prisoner could not breathe properly as the weight of his body prevented normal respiration and tissue oxygenation, and eventually death would come as the circulatory system failed.
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