"Ex-Squeezed", Way to Die #888, is the seventh and final death to be featured in "Sudden Death", which aired on December 22, 2010.
Plot[]
Irishman Thomas Miagh was sentenced to death; the first attempt is the typical method of on the Torture Rack, which was supposed to stretch someone and keep pulling until their joints disconnected. This contraption was designed by the royal executioner of the time, Sir William Skeffington, who was nicknamed "Scavenger". As he attempted to pull Thomas apart with the rack, he failed because Thomas was a towering 6'9'' tall, way too tall for the rack to have any effect. Thomas mocks Skeffington as he tries and fails, joking "I think you got me in the child size". Then Skeffington, riled up more than ever, came up with the idea of instead of pulling someone apart, squeezing them to death. And so, the famous Scavenger's Daughter was born. It was a metal contraption that forced the victim into crouching in the fetal position, as two metal arms tightened other metal bars on the victims' back and tightened more and more until death. Thomas was the first victim. As the steel pressed down on Thomas and he screamed in utter pain, his back, legs, arms, and ribs broke, and he suffered severe internal hemorrhaging. His lungs compressed as blood squirted from every orifice from his body; it was like squeezing a wet sponge dry. He was brutally squeezed more and more until his neck finally snapped, killing him, much to the relief of Sir William Skeffington/Scavenger.
Transcript[]
Narrator: As the 16th century was coming to a close, business was booming at the tower of London's torture chamber. And if medieval mutilation had a poster boy, it would've been Sir William Skevington. He was the torturer in chief for King Henry VIII. His specialty was....the rack.
Richard Iacovelli: The rack was built to stretch someone. And the joints of the legs, the elbows, the wrists, the arms, would all be pulled apart. Your body would actually be ripped limb from limb, per se.
Narrator: Today, Skevington had a new customer; a cold-blooded murder and traitor to the king. Thomas was sentenced to death. The only problem: Thomas was 6'9, and the rack was coming up short.
Thomas: (Laughs) Scavenger; I think you got me in the child's size. (Laughs)
Narrator: Skevington, who was nicknamed "Scavenger" by the lowlife scum he tortured, was nothing if not resourceful.
Thomas: (Laughs)
Narrator: He figured, "if you can't stretch 'em, squeeze 'em."
(Cut to Thomas hanging against a wall as William starts forging something)
Narrator: And so was born the Scavenger's Daughter.
Richard Iacovelli: Yeah, the differences between the Scavenger's Daughter and the Rack. The Rack, as I have said, was used to pull someone apart. The Scavenger's Daughter would be compressing someone. This was a torture device with two large arms that would force someone in the fetal position. As this device was tightened, it would cause their back to break, their arms to break, their legs to break, it would cause them to hemorrhage internally. Now, as they were hemorrhaging, blood would come out of their nose, their nostrils, their mouth and their ears, crushing them and killing them in that fashion.
(as Thomas continues screaming in pain, the scene shortly cuts to the CGI recreation of a person being subjected to the punishment)
Narrator: As the steel pressed down on Thomas, his rib cage cracked and bones dislocated. His lungs compressed, as blood squirted from every orifice of his body. It was like squeezing a wet sponge dry.
Thomas: (screams in complete pain one last time)
(One final squeeze is given as the last bone cracks and Thomas stops breathing.)
Narrator: And then Thomas...died.
Villain Death plays
Narrator: Thomas was too big for the rack.
Thomas: I think you got me in the child's size.
Narrator: But he met his match when he hooked up with a nasty little wench... (Thomas screams in pain until his final bone cracks, killing him) ...called the Scavenger's Daughter.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Blake Arnold - Thomas Miagh (Lead: Intended victim)
- Harwood Gordon - Sir William Skeffington/Scavenger (Lead)
- Richard Iacovelli - Himself (Torture Historian)
Alternative Names[]
- Scavenger's Daughter (Spike TV website)
Segment Description[]
Description as seen on the Spike TV website
- "The true story of the Tower of London warden who invented the "Scavenger's Daughter," which compresses the body into a fatal crushing crouch."
Trivia[]
- The death about Scavenger's Daughter was the true story in history.
- The Scavenger's Daughter wasn't invented by William Skeffington. His son Leonard invented it.
- William Skeffington was born in 1465 and died in 1535. This death, however, took place in 1581.
- This is the only death to take place in England.
- The segment number is #888, a number associated with Balance Which Its Angel Number.
Foreign Names[]
- Estrujado (Crushed) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Exprimido (Squeezed) - European Spanish dub
- Zusammengestaucht (Compressed) - German dub
- Donzela Esmagadora (Crushing Maiden) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Akuhot Madawil (Painful Punishment) - Lazoran dub
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