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Deleted member jedakk
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Yes, thank you very much
I imagine the raising of the cross would be more painful for the delinquent , but this is only a theoretical question... as we have since long dismissed crucifixion as means of execution
Schandpfahl
I think you're right. The shock of having nails driven through your wrists would be agonizing, but hanging helplessly with nothing but those nails to bear your weight had to be much worse. There might, and I emphasize might, be a period of panic and frenzied struggle as a victim was hit with all of that pain, followed with a kind of "coming to terms" with it, settling down, resignation, and of course exhaustion. They might might faint and might go into shock. You can't generalize, because everyone is different.
However bad the pain might have been, a victim had to deal with it somehow because we know that they hung and suffered for a long time on the cross before they finally expired.