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this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2023
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Crucifixion wasn't always to the death. It was used as torture as well.
The first sentence of the Wikipedia article disagrees with you.
While I can't support it with evidence, I always thought that torture to extract information was a relatively new phenomenon (information is much more valuable now than it was). Torture before the 20th century seems like just human cruelty.
I mean, people used to think it was a good idea to torture animals to death as a family activity. Not even that long ago, and it still exists.