Quote Originally Posted by Button Basher
Eeew, what the hell? I never knew that. Better then throwing them head first into a giant mincing vat I guess.
Believe it or not, that would probably be just as humane, despite its truly gory nature. Death would be nearly instantaneous. I should explain that in the modern method, the spike is driven by a special pneumatic hammer. It's very fast. It supplanted the older method in which a sledghammer was used.