Deathinitions

In part two of the deathly delve into excruciating executions it's time to look at some of the worst that history has to offer and the pour souls who suffered from those terrible fates.

From Ash's comically murderous hand in the Evil Dead Franchise to A24's dread-filled terrifier Talk To Me, severed hands are still clutching at our collective consciousness. But where does this fascination that our divorced limbs have a life of their own come from? And why on Earth would people actively seek out the cold touch of a freshly hanged criminal?

Today we're rolling out the ropey history in part 1 of looking at the history of public execution in all its morbid and gory details.

Welcome to the Daft Demise of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, middle child and possibly the only man in history to have requested that he be drowned in a barrel of wine.

Terrible accidents, war, natural disasters, progress...Floridian's? What could all these things possible have in common? Why they're all reasons behind the worlds most morbid sub-aquatic feature - the underwater graveyard! Whether purposefully sunk or having slid into the sea these are some of the final resting places of the deep that you should know about.

In last weeks episode of Deathinitions we talked about the mystery of the Highgate Vampire. Whether you believe in blood sucking fiends or not is up to you but we can agree on is that Highgate contains a staggeringly high number of rotten remains - not all of them were good people. And some were just very unlucky. So today we're going to meet some of the cemetery's own mad, bad, (often just sad) and dangerous to know.