The most gruesome execution ever recorded was that of György
The most gruesome execution ever recorded was that of György György Dozsa was leader of a pesant rebellion in Hungary. He was also subject to one of the cruelest executions in history. Bound alive to a red-hot iron throne, he had his flesh ripped with pliers, and then a group of his followers were forced to tear off his flesh and eat it. György Dózsa (or György Székely,[note 1] Romanian: Gheorghe Doja; 1470 – 20 July 1514) was a Székely man-at-arms (and by some accounts, a nobleman) from Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary who led a peasants' revolt against the kingdom's landed nobility. He was eventually caught, tortured, and executed along with his followers, and remembered as both a Christian martyr and a dangerous criminal. During the reign of king Vladislaus II of Hungary (1490–1516), royal power declined in favour of the magnates, who used their power to curtail the peasants' freedom. In the course of the summer, Dózsa seized the fortresses of Arad, Lippa (today Lipova),...