The New Testament, and some other written works or published writings of the time mention or reference a certain brutal, savage, and humiliating or demeaning type of capital punishment known as crucifixion. Normally, victims of crucifixion were beaten in advance and then
attached to the wooden cross either by rope or nails, bound or punctured through the wrists and feet. Death normally came leisurely, it was not uncommon or out of the ordinary for individuals to live for days on the cross before death.